Flaws in popular VSCode extensions expose developers to attacks

Published on February 17, 2026

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local files and execute code remotely. [...]

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