Microsoft has published a patch for CVE-2023-38146 on patch Tuesday of September 2023. The advisory for this vulnerability mentions that the impact is remote code execution, which was demonstrated by @carrot_c4k3 - the researcher who first reported the vulnerability to Microsoft in May of 2023. Her ThemeBleed writeup and proof-of-concept demonstrate how an attacker might exploit the vulnerability for code execution by luring an unsuspecting victim into opening a booby-trapped .