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CVE-2021-45394

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-45394 is a critical deserialization vulnerability affecting Spipu HTML2PDF versions prior to 5.2.4, allowing attackers to inject malicious HTML <link> tags to trigger arbitrary data deserialization. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:html2pdf_project:html2pdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0158 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 14,855 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

composerpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: spipu/html2pdfFixed in: 5.2.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

composerGHSA-6m93-343m-3jrchigh

Cross-site Scripting in HTML2PDF

Jan 21, 2022

References

github.com / spipu/html2pdf
ProductThird Party Advisory
github.com / spipu/html2pdf/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
synacktiv.com / sites/default/files/2022-01/html2pdf_ssrf_deserialization.pdf
ExploitThird Party Advisory