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

November 20, 2025 (updated November 25, 2025)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-547r-qmjm-8hvw
github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf
github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/commit/46bdcf2051c8d1758b391c1353185a179a47a4d9
github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf/security/advisories/GHSA-547r-qmjm-8hvw
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-65108

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