Stirling-PDF: Reflected XSS through crafted PDF metadata fields (Title and Author)

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.27% · top 80% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

• CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Stirling-Tools · Stirling-PDF

  • affected < 2.0.0

References (2)

• https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/security/advisories/GHSA-rjjx-43g5-mp76 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
• https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/releases/tag/v2.0.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2026-41580](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2026-41580.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2026-41580)

Record last updated 15 Jul 2026, 15:33 UTC.