A cybersecurity researcher is urging users to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader after a fix was released yesterday for a remote code execution zero-day with a public in-the-wild proof-of-concept exploit.

Adobe, although they have admitted to the flaw, has not given a time line for fixing the affected applications with include Acrobat (Reader as well) 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1 and earlier.

Adobe tackles critical code execution vulnerabilities in Acrobat, Reader This month’s security update fixes a variety of critical and important bugs in the software.

Adobe will be adding some new generative AI features to the Acrobat Reader. The company will now allow users to create and edit images in PDFs by just using text prompts.