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CVE-2023-36563

Medium 5.5 Exploited in the wild (KEV)

Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog

Name
Microsoft WordPad Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Added to catalog
Remediation due date (US federal)
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Microsoft WordPad Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
5.5 (MEDIUM) Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS — exploit probability
20% (percentile: 97) as of 2 November 2026
CWE
CWE-20

Affected products

microsoft: windows 10 1507; microsoft: windows 10 1607; microsoft: windows 10 1809; microsoft: windows 10 21h2; microsoft: windows 10 22h2; microsoft: windows 11 21h2; microsoft: windows 11 22h2; microsoft: windows server 2008; microsoft: windows server 2012; microsoft: windows server 2016; microsoft: windows server 2019; microsoft: windows server 2022

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