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Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. With the July 2019 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, Microsoft also disabled VBScript by default in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10.
Listen up, VBScript fans: your favourite scripting language's days are numbered.
The recently-patched flaw could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday security bulletins include a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited.