CVE-2025-15556

CISA KEV
ACT NOW Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 0/100
Published: N/A Modified: N/A First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Notepad++ when using the WinGUp updater, contains a download of code without integrity check vulnerability that could allow an attacker to intercept or redirect update traffic to download and execute an attacker-controlled installer. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user.

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Vendor / Product Notepad++ — Notepad++
Date Added 2026-02-12
Remediation Due 2026-03-05
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/clarification-security-incident/ ; https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27298/notepad-v8-8-9-vulnerability-fix ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15556

Bug Bounty Relevance

0 / 100
✓ Known exploited (KEV)

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

1.77%
Raw Score 0.017720
Percentile 78.1%
Date 2026-10-28

Intelligence Sources

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