{"id":7038,"date":"2026-02-18T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/critical-flaws-found-in-four-vs-code-extensions-with-over-125-million-installs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:11:27","slug":"critical-flaws-found-in-four-vs-code-extensions-with-over-125-million-installs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/critical-flaws-found-in-four-vs-code-extensions-with-over-125-million-installs\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely.<br \/>\nThe extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely.<br \/>\nThe extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to steal local files and execute code remotely. The extensions, which have been collectively installed more than 125 million times, are Live Server, Code Runner, Markdown Preview Enhanced, and\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/critical-flaws-found-in-four-vs-code-extensions-with-over-125-million-installs\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical Flaws Found in Four VS Code Extensions with Over 125 Million Installs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}