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CVE-2018-25246
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-04-04T20:16:18.210 · Last modified 2026-07-21T07:10:00.117

Summary

Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. Attackers can paste a large buffer of repeated characters into the search bar to trigger an application crash.

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