HighCVENVD — high/critical CVEs (rolling 7d)· 4 Apr 2026
CVE-2018-25246 — Wikipedia 12.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthent…
Severity: High · Kind: Vulnerability
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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.
Vulnerability facts
- CVE
- CVE-2018-25246
- CVSS
- 7.5
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