Malwarebytes has released AdwCleaner 8.0.1 and fixes a DLL hijacking vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by G..nter Born on December 10th, 2019. This allows an attacker or malware to create a malicious DLL with the same name as one that Adwcleaner normally loads and place it in an accessible folder in the user’s path. The DLL Hijacking vulnerability was fixed by enforcing the loading paths to the DLLs.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/adwcleaner-801-fixes-dll-hijacking-vulnerability/