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CVE-2024-1648 (GCVE-0-2024-1648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-20 00:01 – Updated: 2025-12-03 20:19
VLAI?
Title
electron-pdf 20.0.0 - Local File Read via Server Side XSS
Summary
electron-pdf version 20.0.0 allows an external attacker to remotely obtain arbitrary local files. This is possible because the application does not validate the HTML content entered by the user.
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
Impacted products
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