Notepad++ Plugins

Notepad++ editor plugins

Notepad++ plugins are a small ecosystem — a few hundred packages — but they run native DLLs inside a desktop process with full user privileges, which is a completely different risk model from sandboxed browser extensions. We track the plugin list and analyze what we can obtain, with emphasis on download sources, binaries, and version drift.

• –Native binaries with no sandbox: a malicious plugin is full user-level code execution
• –Distribution via third-party sites and bundled installers rather than a curated store
• –Long-lived plugins whose maintainership quietly changes

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