CVE-2026-54525 | Vulnerability Intelligence

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Source record retrieved 2026-10-28T10:22:28.248158+00:00. Scheduled imports handle updates; this page does not assert that the provider was queried just now.

Vulnerability overview

Markdown Preview Enhanced is a Markdown preview extension for Visual Studio Code. Prior to 0.8.28, Markdown Preview Enhanced preview-link handling passes a decoded, Markdown-controlled link target to a Windows file-opening helper that invokes child_process.exec with the start command. When a Windows user opens an untrusted Markdown file and clicks a crafted external or unsupported-scheme link, shell metacharacters in the decoded target are interpreted by cmd.exe as command separators, allowing an attacker-selected command to run with the privileges of the current VS Code user. The attack requires one normal preview-link click but does not require malicious workspace configuration, script execution to be enabled, or additional files. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.28.

Patch review priority

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No higher-priority signal is available in the current stored evidence.

FIRST EPSS: 0.43% · percentile 36.9 · score date 2026-10-27.

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Severity and scoring

CVSS score: 8.8 · HIGH
CVSS version: 3.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses: CWE-78

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Known exploitation and remediation

Not listed in the CISA catalog retrieved for this record. This does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.

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Affected products and versions

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