CVE-2023-47452

HIGH

Notepad-plus-plus Notepad++ - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (1)

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

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 20.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Affected Products (1)

notepad-plus-plus/notepad\+\+

Timeline

Published Nov 30, 2023

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026