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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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Wikipedia 12.0 Denial of Service via Search | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-306 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-06T18:02:53.895Z
Reserved: 2026-04-04T13:20:57.565Z
Link: CVE-2018-25246
Updated: 2026-04-06T17:59:30.679Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-04T20:16:18.210
Modified: 2026-04-04T20:16:18.210
Link: CVE-2018-25246
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