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Feb 11 2026 Notepad's new Markdown powers served with a side of remote code execution

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Smug faces across all those who opposed the WordPad-ification of Microsoft's humble text editor Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE).... [...]

Posted by Connor Jones on Wed 11 February 2026 in The Register.

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