CVE-2026-54525

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54525
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54525.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-54525
Aliases
  • GHSA-7v6f-3vq6-r373
Published
2026-10-14T19:06:59Z
Modified
2026-10-15T10:47:31Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Markdown Preview Enhanced: One Click RCE via Markdown Link Command Injection on Windows
Details

Markdown Preview Enhanced is a Markdown preview extension for Visual Studio Code. Prior to 0.8.28, Markdown Preview Enhanced preview-link handling passes a decoded, Markdown-controlled link target to a Windows file-opening helper that invokes child_process.exec with the start command. When a Windows user opens an untrusted Markdown file and clicks a crafted external or unsupported-scheme link, shell metacharacters in the decoded target are interpreted by cmd.exe as command separators, allowing an attacker-selected command to run with the privileges of the current VS Code user. The attack requires one normal preview-link click but does not require malicious workspace configuration, script execution to be enabled, or additional files. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.28.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-78"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/54xxx/CVE-2026-54525.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhanced

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhanced
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
dcd80281c986293b93d9f1af34ced64dcb230c77
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "0.8.28"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.8
0.0.9
0.1.0
0.1.1
0.1.2
0.1.3
0.1.4
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.1.7
0.1.8
0.1.9
0.2.0
0.2.1
0.2.2
0.2.3
0.2.4
0.2.5
0.2.6
0.2.7
0.2.8
0.2.9
0.3.0
0.3.1
0.3.10
0.3.11
0.3.12
0.3.13
0.3.2
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.3.7
0.3.8
0.3.9
0.4.0
0.4.1
0.4.2
0.4.3
0.5.0
0.5.1
0.7.10
0.7.7
0.7.8
0.7.9
0.8.0
0.8.1
0.8.10
0.8.11
0.8.12
0.8.13
0.8.14
0.8.15
0.8.16
0.8.17
0.8.18
0.8.19
0.8.2
0.8.20
0.8.21
0.8.23
0.8.24
0.8.25
0.8.26
0.8.27
0.8.3
0.8.4
0.8.5
0.8.6
0.8.7
0.8.8
0.8.9
v0.*
v0.3.12
v0.3.13
v0.4.1
v0.4.2
v0.4.3
v0.5.1
v0.5.10
v0.5.11
v0.5.12
v0.5.13
v0.5.14
v0.5.15
v0.5.16
v0.5.17
v0.5.18
v0.5.2
v0.5.20
v0.5.21
v0.5.22
v0.5.3
v0.5.4
v0.5.8
v0.5.9
v0.6.0
v0.6.1
v0.6.10
v0.6.2
v0.6.3
v0.6.5
v0.6.6
v0.6.7
v0.6.8
v0.7.0
v0.7.1
v0.7.2
v0.7.3
v0.7.4
v0.7.5
v0.7.6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54525.json"