Shellcode

Shellcode - small piece of code used as a payload to exploit a software vulnerability. Article "Shellcode" in English Wikipedia has 42.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 18 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Shellcode", its content was written by 142 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 416 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 194 times in English Wikipedia and cited 469 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1972 in April 2003
• Global: #1434 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #93133 in December 2011
• Global: #122211 in December 2011

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Shellcode		42.8069
2	Portuguese (pt) Shellcode		34.5566
3	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		21.5263
4	Azerbaijani (az) Shellcode		17.8502
5	Italian (it) Shellcode		15.8492
6	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		14.1366
7	Malay (ms) Kod cangkerang		12.9132
8	German (de) Shellcode		11.3682
9	French (fr) Shellcode		9.7545
10	Hebrew (he) קוד ייעודי		9.0881

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shellcode" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellcode		965 580
2	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		153 489
3	French (fr) Shellcode		98 606
4	German (de) Shellcode		81 559
5	Spanish (es) Shellcode		65 913
6	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		50 319
7	Italian (it) Shellcode		45 650
8	Polish (pl) Shellcode		38 848
9	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		27 956
10	Korean (ko) 셸코드		18 587

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shellcode" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellcode		2 777
2	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		229
3	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		147
4	French (fr) Shellcode		143
5	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		74
6	German (de) Shellcode		65
7	Korean (ko) 셸코드		43
8	Spanish (es) Shellcode		42
9	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		40
10	Italian (it) Shellcode		40

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shellcode" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellcode		142
2	Italian (it) Shellcode		43
3	French (fr) Shellcode		42
4	German (de) Shellcode		41
5	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		31
6	Spanish (es) Shellcode		21
7	Polish (pl) Shellcode		21
8	Dutch (nl) Shellcode		13
9	Hebrew (he) קוד ייעודי		12
10	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shellcode" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		0
2	Azerbaijani (az) Shellcode		0
3	German (de) Shellcode		0
4	English (en) Shellcode		0
5	Spanish (es) Shellcode		0
6	French (fr) Shellcode		0
7	Hebrew (he) קוד ייעודי		0
8	Indonesian (id) Shellcode		0
9	Italian (it) Shellcode		0
10	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shellcode" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shellcode		194
2	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		66
3	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		56
4	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		41
5	Azerbaijani (az) Shellcode		16
6	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		16
7	Korean (ko) 셸코드		15
8	French (fr) Shellcode		12
9	Spanish (es) Shellcode		10
10	Italian (it) Shellcode		8

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي
az	Azerbaijani Shellcode
de	German Shellcode
en	English Shellcode
es	Spanish Shellcode
fr	French Shellcode
he	Hebrew קוד ייעודי
id	Indonesian Shellcode
it	Italian Shellcode
ja	Japanese シェルコード
ko	Korean 셸코드
ms	Malay Kod cangkerang
nl	Dutch Shellcode
pl	Polish Shellcode
pt	Portuguese Shellcode
ru	Russian Шелл-код
uk	Ukrainian Шелл-код
zh	Chinese Shellcode

Best Rank

English: #93133 12.2011

Global: #122211 12.2011

Best Rank

English: #1972 04.2003

Global: #1434 04.2003

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