# CVE-2025-68428: jsPDF has Local File Inclusion/Path Traversal vulnerability

- Also known as: GHSA-F8CM-6447-X5H2
- Severity: CVSS 9.2 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 4.0.0
- Published: 2026-01-05 · Updated: 2026-09-07

## Affected

- parallax jsPDF: fixed in 4.0.0
- jspdf (npm): fixed in 4.0.0

## Description

jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. Prior to version 4.0.0, user control of the first argument of the loadFile method in the node.js build allows local file inclusion/path traversal. If given the possibility to pass unsanitized paths to the loadFile method, a user can retrieve file contents of arbitrary files in the local file system the node process is running in. The file contents are included verbatim in the generated PDFs. Other affected methods are `addImage`, `html`, and `addFont`. Only the node.js builds of the library are affected, namely the `dist/jspdf.node.js` and `dist/jspdf.node.min.js` files. The vulnerability has been fixed in jsPDF@4.0.0. This version restricts file system access per default. This semver-major update does not introduce other breaking changes. Some workarounds areavailable. With recent node versions, jsPDF recommends using the `--permission` flag in production. The feature was introduced experimentally in v20.0.0 and is stable since v22.13.0/v23.5.0/v24.0.0. For older node versions, sanitize user-provided paths before passing them to jsPDF.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on parallax jsPDF, jspdf, upgrade to a fixed version (4.0.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/security/advisories/GHSA-f8cm-6447-x5h2
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/commit/a688c8f479929b24a6543b1fa2d6364abb03066d
- https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF/releases/tag/v4.0.0
- https://github.com/12nio/CVE-2025-68428_PoC
- https://github.com/Nurjaman2004/jsPDF-Bulk-Detector-CVE-2025-68428-

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