# CVE-2025-65108: md-to-pdf is vulnerable to arbitrary JavaScript code execution when parsing front matter

- Also known as: GHSA-547R-QMJM-8HVW
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.2.5
- Published: 2025-11-21 · Updated: 2025-11-24

## Affected

- simonhaenisch md-to-pdf: fixed in 5.2.5
- md-to-pdf (npm): fixed in 5.2.5

## Description

md-to-pdf is a CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js and headless Chrome. Prior to version 5.2.5, a Markdown front-matter block that contains JavaScript delimiter causes the JS engine in gray-matter library to execute arbitrary code in the Markdown to PDF converter process of md-to-pdf library, resulting in remote code execution. This issue has been patched in version 5.2.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on simonhaenisch md-to-pdf, md-to-pdf, upgrade to a fixed version (5.2.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/security/advisories/GHSA-547r-qmjm-8hvw
- https://github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/commit/46bdcf2051c8d1758b391c1353185a179a47a4d9

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