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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-42214 EUVD-2026-28410

Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in dail8859/NotepadNext

Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Notepad Next is a cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Prior to version 0.14, NotepadNext's detectLanguageFromExtension() function interpolates a file's extension directly into a Lua script without sanitization. An attacker can craft a filename whose extension contains Lua code, which executes automatically when the victim opens the file in NotepadNext. Because luaL_openlibs() is called unconditionally, the full os, io, and package libraries are available to the injected code, enabling arbitrary command execution. This issue has been patched in version 0.14.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
dail8859 NotepadNext < 0.14 —

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