High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 4, 2026· Updated Apr 16, 2026

CVE-2018-25246

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.

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Affected products

Wikipedia/Wikipedia Toolbarllm-fuzzy
Range: = 12.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45324nvd
www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/wikipedia/9wzdncrfhwm4nvd

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