Vulnerability · Published Apr 27, 2026 · Assigned by CSA

CVE-2026-3008Vulnerability in Notepad++

Medium 6.6

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Notepad++ from Notepad++. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.6Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

Successful exploitation of the string injection vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain memory address information or crash the application.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Notepad++ Notepad++ 8.9.3

Weakness: CWE-134 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

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