CVE-2026-71858

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71858

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71858.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-71858

Aliases

GHSA-f4rj-vqq4-wvg4

Published

2026-08-17T20:08:21Z

Modified

2026-09-11T08:36:46Z

Severity

5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Notepad++: shortcuts.xml Macro HMAC Bypass Enables Conditional Elevated Command Execution

Details

Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Prior to 8.9.7, macros loaded from an attacker-controlled shortcuts.xml bypass the HMAC validation applied to UserDefinedCommands and can invoke Scintilla actions and the internal Open in Default Viewer command in an elevated Notepad++ process, allowing protected file modification and conditional elevated command execution when a local attacker influences settingsDir and a user triggers the macro. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.7.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-345",
        "CWE-693",
        "CWE-78"
    ],
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}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus

Events

Introduced

Fixed

7686e5a3025eaf1fb8e024c2ceb54670ea05f5fb

Fixed

6634650414ff91220a4c353b7fe5ad741af0f9f9

Database specific

Show details

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        "REFERENCES"
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Affected versions

7.*

7.2.2

7.3.1

v5.*

v5.4.2

v5.4.3

v5.4.4

v5.4.5

v5.5

v5.5.1

v5.6

v5.6.1

v5.6.2

v5.6.3

v5.6.4

v5.6.5

v5.6.6

v5.6.7

v5.6.8

v5.7

v5.8

v5.8.1

v5.8.2

v5.8.3

v5.8.4

v5.8.5

v5.8.6

v5.8.7

v5.9

v5.9.1

v5.9.2

v5.9.3

v5.9.4

v5.9.5

v5.9.6

v5.9.6.1

v5.9.6.2

v5.9.7

v5.9.8

Other

v6.*

v6.1

v6.1.1

v6.1.2

v6.1.3

v6.1.4

v6.1.5

v6.1.6

v6.1.7

v6.1.8

v6.2

v6.2.1

v6.2.2

v6.2.3_-_End_of_World_Edition

v6.3

v6.3.1

v6.3.2

v6.3.3

v6.4

v6.4.1

v6.4.2

v6.4.3

v6.4.4

v6.4.5

v6.5

v6.5.1

v6.5.2

v6.5.3

v6.5.4

v6.5.5

v6.6

v6.6.1

v6.6.2

v6.6.3

v6.6.4

v6.6.6_-_Friday_the_13th_edition

v6.6.7

v6.6.8

v6.6.9

v6.7

v6.7.1

v6.7.2

v6.7.3

v6.7.4_-_Je_suis_Charlie_edition

v6.7.5

v6.7.7

v6.7.8

v6.7.8.1

v6.7.8.2

v6.7.9

v6.7.9.1

v6.7.9.2

v6.8

v6.8.1

v6.8.2

v6.8.3

v6.8.4

v6.8.5

v6.8.6

v6.8.7

v6.8.8

v6.8.9

v6.9

v6.9.1

v6.9.2

v7.*

v7.1

v7.2

v7.2.1

v7.2.2

v7.3

v7.3.1

v7.3.2

v7.3.3

v7.4

v7.4.1

v7.4.2

v7.5.1

v7.5.2

v7.5.3

v7.5.4

v7.5.5

v7.5.6

v7.5.7

v7.5.8

v7.5.9

v7.6

v7.6.1

v7.6.2

v7.6.3

v7.6.4

v7.6.5

v7.6.6

v7.7

v7.7.1

v7.8

v7.8.1

v7.8.2

v7.8.3

v7.8.4

v7.8.5

v7.8.6

v7.8.7

v7.8.8

v7.8.9

v7.9

v7.9.1

v7.9.2

v7.9.3

v7.9.4

v7.9.5

v8.*

v8.1

v8.1.1

v8.1.2

v8.1.3

v8.1.4

v8.1.5

v8.1.6

v8.1.7

v8.1.8

v8.1.9

v8.1.9.1

v8.1.9.2

v8.1.9.3

v8.2

v8.2.1

v8.3

v8.3.1

v8.3.2

v8.3.3

v8.4

v8.4.1

v8.4.2

v8.4.3

v8.4.4

v8.4.5

v8.4.6

v8.4.7

v8.4.8

v8.4.9

v8.5

v8.5.1

v8.5.2

v8.5.3

v8.5.4

v8.5.5

v8.5.6

v8.5.7

v8.5.8

v8.6

v8.6.1

v8.6.2

v8.6.3

v8.6.4

v8.6.5

v8.6.6

v8.6.7

v8.6.8

v8.6.9

v8.7

v8.7.1

v8.7.2

v8.7.3

v8.7.4

v8.7.5

v8.7.6

v8.7.7

v8.7.8

v8.7.9

v8.8

v8.8.1

v8.8.2

v8.8.3

v8.8.4

v8.8.5

v8.8.6

v8.8.7

v8.8.8

v8.8.9

v8.9

v8.9.1

v8.9.2

v8.9.3

v8.9.4

v8.9.5

v8.9.6

v8.9.6.1

v8.9.6.2

v8.9.6.4

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71858.json"

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