CVE-2026-52886EPSS p5.2%
CVE-2026-52886CVE-2026-52886
Description
Notepad++ is a free and open-source source code editor. Prior to 8.9.7, Notepad++ validates the backupFilePath attribute from session.xml with std::wstring::starts_with against the expected backup directory without path normalization, allowing parent-directory sequences during snapshot-mode restoration to read an arbitrary user-readable file outside the backup directory into an editor tab. This issue is fixed in version 8.9.7.
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.17% probability of exploitation · percentile 5.2% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-09 |