Wikipedia 12.0 Denial of Service via Search
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 8.7epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 72% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Wikipedia · Wikipediapublic PoCs found — 1
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