Shellshock (software bug)

Quality:

Shellshock - security bug in the Unix Bash shell. Article “Shellshock (software bug)” in English Wikipedia has 69.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 81 references and 14 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shellshock (software bug)”, its content was written by 151 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 313 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 249 times in English Wikipedia and cited 783 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #38 in September 2014
• Global: #252 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #189 in October 2014
• Global: #936 in October 2014

There are 17 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) Shellshock (software bug)		69.5067
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		61.5648
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		49.6583
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		46.4964
5	Czech (cs) Shellshock		42.5909
6	Dutch (nl) Shellshock (softwarebug)		32.934
7	Estonian (et) Shellshock		31.5421
8	Indonesian (id) Shellshock (bug perangkat lunak)		24.6285
9	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		23.0435
10	Norwegian (no) Shellshock		22.6772

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		2 237 631
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		201 677
3	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		108 003
4	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		71 101
5	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		58 196
6	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		52 066
7	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		41 661
8	Polish (pl) Shellshock		17 079
9	Portuguese (pt) Shellshock		12 452
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		9 525

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		3 469
2	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		233
3	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		201
4	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		180
5	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		158
6	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		147
7	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		127
8	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		22
9	Polish (pl) Shellshock		22
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		21

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		151
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		42
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		23
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		19
5	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		12
6	Polish (pl) Shellshock		9
7	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		7
8	Czech (cs) Shellshock		7
9	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		7
10	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		6

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		0
2	Czech (cs) Shellshock		0
3	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		0
4	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		0
5	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		0
6	Estonian (et) Shellshock		0
7	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		0
8	Hebrew (he) Shellshock		0
9	Indonesian (id) Shellshock (bug perangkat lunak)		0
10	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		0

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

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