CVE-2026-85279: notepad-plus-plus notepad-plus-plus

Notepad++: Stack Buffer Overflow in Plugin Lexer Loading via Unchecked GetLexerCount() Return Value

CVSS 8.6 HighEPSS 0.0022 · 13th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitHub_M) at 22 Sept 2026, 17:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
notepad-plus-plus	notepad-plus-plus	affected < 8.9.8

Identifiers

CVE-2026-85279

CNA

GitHub_M

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-121

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.6	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0022, the 13th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 22 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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