CVE-2023-47452

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in notepad-plus-plus notepad\+\+. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An Untrusted search path vulnerability in notepad++ 6.5 allows local users to gain escalated privileges through the msimg32.dll file in the current working directory.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 45% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-427
Published: 2023-11-30
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

notepad-plus-plus:notepad\+\+

References

https://github.com/xieqiang11/poc-1/tree/main
https://github.com/xieqiang11/poc-1/tree/main

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