You can infect your PC with malware without ever leaving Notepad, thanks to recent updates and additions. Hooray.
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Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft ...
The vulnerability comes from the way Notepad handles Markdown hyperlinks. Attackers craft malicious .md files with embedded ...
Microsoft has fixed a "remote code execution" vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or ...
According to Microsoft's release notes, the update fixes 25 elevation of privilege flaws, 12 remote code execution ...
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Microsoft has patched the Windows Notepad remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2026-20841, warning users to install ...