Markdown Preview Enhanced OS Command Injection in External File and Link Opening
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.6epss 0.3%
from disclosure to weapon6 days
Published on NVDJun 5
1st PoC+6d
exploitation probability
0.3%top 73% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Markdown Preview Enhanced before 0.8.28 opens external files and links from the preview through a shell and does not validate untrusted inputs taken from the markdown document - the diagram filename attribute, imported file paths, and the latex_engine code-chunk attribute. On Windows, a crafted markdown document can inject operating system commands that execute when the document is previewed. Fixed in 0.8.28 by passing these inputs as literal arguments instead of through a shell and validating them before use.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
shd101wyy · Markdown Preview Enhancedpublic PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/byte16384/CVE-2026-49492-PoC★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.