CVE-2026-57233Notepad++: Path Traversal (Zip Slip) in WinGup Plugin Extraction

Description

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.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

References and patches

• https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/security/advisories/GHSA-hjxw-84rf-wg5r
• https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/pull/106
• https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/wingup/commit/7670296a5c7fdec624e0a45dbde51059a7d735a8
• https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v8.9.7