Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the sear…

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1. Apr 4, 2026 · NIST NVD

   Detected

   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.

2. Jul 21, 2026 · NIST NVD

   Updated

   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.

Sources

• CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2018-25246

  Official CVE identifier

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• NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2018-25246

  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 app

  nvd.nist.gov

References

• Reference · exploit-db.com
• Reference · microsoft.com