CVE-2018-25246 describes a high-severity denial of service vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Wikipedia 12.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to crash the application by submitting oversized input through the search functionality. This vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to complete application unavailability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor is public exploit code available, though it has garnered minimal community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Wikipedia | 12.0CNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.