CVE-2026-57233
Notepad++ vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Prior to 8.9.7, the WinGup decompress function joins untrusted ZIP entry names to unzipDestTo without canonical containment validation, allowing an entry such as ../mimeTools/mimeTools.dll to overwrite a DLL in a sibling plugin directory and execute attacker-controlled code when Notepad++ next loads that plugin. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.7.


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CVE-2026-57233HIGH8.1
  • Notepad++ logoNotepad++
  • cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
NoYesAug 17, 2026
CVE-2026-54758HIGH7.8
  • Notepad++ logoNotepad++
  • cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
NoYesAug 17, 2026
CVE-2026-71858MEDIUM5.4
  • Notepad++ logoNotepad++
  • cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
NoYesAug 17, 2026
CVE-2026-73250MEDIUM5.4
  • Notepad++ logoNotepad++
  • cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
NoYesAug 11, 2026
CVE-2026-52886MEDIUM5.1
  • Notepad++ logoNotepad++
  • cpe:2.3:a:notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+
NoYesAug 17, 2026

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