CVE-2026-31898

HIGH8.1EPSS 0.05%

jsPDF has a PDF Object Injection via FreeText color

Published: 3/17/2026Modified: 3/19/2026

Description

### Impact User control of arguments of the `createAnnotation` method allows users to inject arbitrary PDF objects, such as JavaScript actions. If given the possibility to pass unsanitized input to the following method, a user can inject arbitrary PDF objects, such as JavaScript actions, which might trigger when the PDF is opened or interacted with.. * `createAnnotation`: `color` parameter Example attack vector: ```js import { jsPDF } from 'jspdf' const doc = new jsPDF(); const payload = '000000) /AA <</E <</S /Launch /F (calc.exe)>>>> ('; doc.createAnnotation({ type: 'freetext', bounds: { x: 10, y: 10, w: 120, h: 20 }, contents: 'hello', color: payload }); doc.save('test.pdf'); ``` ### Patches The vulnerability has been fixed in [email protected]. ### Workarounds Sanitize user input before passing it to the vulnerable API members.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References (6)