diff --git a/src/lib/converters/pandoc.svelte.ts b/src/lib/converters/pandoc.svelte.ts
index 6dfe84d..3d0dac1 100644
--- a/src/lib/converters/pandoc.svelte.ts
+++ b/src/lib/converters/pandoc.svelte.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ export class PandocConverter extends Converter {
 		(async () => {
 			try {
 				this.status = "downloading";
-				this.wasm = await fetch("/pandoc.wasm").then((r) =>
+				// currently fetching from unsafe origin due to CORS, needs to be changed before merge
+				this.wasm = await fetch("https://newjeans.cafe/pandoc.wasm").then((r) =>
 					r.arrayBuffer(),
 				);
 
diff --git a/static/pandoc.wasm b/static/pandoc.wasm
deleted file mode 100644
index 36321b5..0000000
Binary files a/static/pandoc.wasm and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/static/sw.js b/static/sw.js
index 47573e2..bd7439c 100644
--- a/static/sw.js
+++ b/static/sw.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const CACHE_NAME = "vert-wasm-cache-v2"; // updated when workers update
 
 const WASM_FILES = [
-	"/pandoc.wasm",
+	"https://newjeans.cafe/pandoc.wasm",
 	"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@ffmpeg/core@0.12.10/dist/esm/ffmpeg-core.js",
 	"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@ffmpeg/core@0.12.10/dist/esm/ffmpeg-core.wasm",
 ];