diff --git a/news/changelog-1.11.md b/news/changelog-1.11.md
index 63e16dd8fd2..2af5e019700 100644
--- a/news/changelog-1.11.md
+++ b/news/changelog-1.11.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ All changes included in 1.11:
 - ([#14857](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14857)): Fix `quarto install chrome-headless-shell` (and `quarto install chromium`) failing with a 404 on Linux arm64 due to a stale Playwright CDN URL.
 - ([#14946](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14946)): Fix `revealjs` and `dashboard` logos resolving to broken paths in documents in a project subdirectory when the project has a brand (regression introduced in v1.8.22). Logo paths are now always relative to the document; a project-relative logo path in a website with a brand still works but prints a deprecation warning.
 - ([#14993](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14993)): Fix Typst output dropping a brand font from a `font-family` list when another document in the same directory or project was rendered first with different brand fonts.
+- ([#15143](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/15143)): Fix PDF rendering with `pdf-standard` failing with `\DocumentMetadata not supported!` after updating to KOMA-Script 3.49.3, which provides the default document classes.
 
 ## Dependencies
 
diff --git a/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/template.tex b/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/template.tex
index 5ce3e586c35..00ba246571a 100644
--- a/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/template.tex
+++ b/src/resources/formats/pdf/pandoc/template.tex
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 $document-metadata.latex()$
+$if(pdfstandard)$
+$-- KOMA-Script 3.49.3 aborts on \DocumentMetadata unless \komascript_documentmetadata_test: exists;
+$-- a no-op keeps the 3.49.2 behaviour (#15143). The guard keeps a definition made earlier.
+\ExplSyntaxOn
+\cs_if_exist:NF \komascript_documentmetadata_test:
+  { \cs_new:Npn \komascript_documentmetadata_test: { } }
+\ExplSyntaxOff
+$endif$
 % Options for packages loaded elsewhere
 $passoptions.latex()$
 %