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LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
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this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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How in the world did they manage that? Did they implement it internally as a TCP API and expose it?
I don't know the technicalities, but Markdown supports links, and it's possible to craft a link that downloads a file and then executes it. You can look up the Notepad.exe RCE vulnerability from this year.
Basically Notepad would pass the link to ShellEx and could launch executables.
It was like:
They probably vibe coded it, and only copilot reviewed and merged the code.