CVE-2026-57233 PUBLISHED

Notepad++: Path Traversal (Zip Slip) in WinGup Plugin Extraction

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.06.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor notepad-plus-plus
Product notepad-plus-plus
Versions
  • Version < 8.9.7 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE