Microsoft WordPad Information Disclosure Vulnerability

What it is

Microsoft WordPad contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows for information disclosure.

Who's affected

Affects anyone running Microsoft WordPad. Microsoft products in a small practice typically sit close to credentials, email, or document workflows — treat the patch as in-scope.

What to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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Microsoft fix

• KB5031361 (Security Update)
• KB5031364 (Security Update)
• KB5031358 (Security Update)
• KB5031356 (Security Update)
• KB5031354 (Security Update)
• KB5031377 (Security Update)
• KB5031362 (Security Update)
• KB5031416 (Monthly Rollup)
• KB5031411 (Security Only)
• KB5031408 (Monthly Rollup)
• KB5031441 (Security Only)
• KB5031442 (Monthly Rollup)
• KB5031427 (Security Only)
• KB5031419 (Monthly Rollup)
• KB5031407 (Security Only)

Sourced from Microsoft Security Update Guide (CVRF document 2023-Oct).

CISA due date

Federal deadline: October 31, 2023.Federal agencies must complete the required action by this date. For private SMBs the deadline is advisory — but treat it as a strong recommendation, especially if you handle regulated data (HIPAA, GLBA, ABA model rules).

EPSS

EPSS score: 20.7% — higher than 97% of all scored CVEs.

EPSS estimates the probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days. Every entry on this site is already confirmed exploited, so read it as relative urgency among the things you still have open, not as permission to wait.

Score dated 2026-07-09, from the FIRST.org Exploit Prediction Scoring System.

Browse more

• All Microsoft KEV entries
• All SMB-relevant KEV entries

Source

Pulled daily from the public cisagov/kev-data mirror (CC0). View the original entry on cisa.gov. CISA KEV is US-Government public-domain data; we add the SMB-vertical framing and the coping action above.