Notepad++ DLL Hijacking (CVE-2025-56383): CVSS 8.4 or CVSS 0.0?
A vulnerability on a popular source-code editor has been recently released along with a proof-of-concept (POC) exploit, but the security community isn’t so sure that it’s a legitimate flaw. In this article, we look at CVE-2025-56383, discuss what developers are saying in the wild, and provide our experts’ take on the issue.