CVE-2026-41580

Stirling-PDF is a locally hosted web application that facilitates various operations on PDF files. Prior to 2.0.0, Stirling-PDF's /get-info-on-pdf endpoint rendered PDF Title and Author metadata fields without proper HTML encoding or sanitization, allowing a crafted PDF to execute attacker-controlled JavaScript in the browser of a user who views the resulting page. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.0.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.1 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security-advisories@github.com

Published

2026-07-15

Last modified

2026-10-24

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Stirling Pdf (Stirling)
• Stirling-pdf (Stirling-tools)

References

• https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/security/advisories/GHSA-rjjx-43g5-mp76
• https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/releases/tag/v2.0.0