Uncontrolled format string

Format string attack - type of software vulnerability. Article "Uncontrolled format string" in English Wikipedia has 31.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 9 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 "Uncontrolled format string", its content was written by 74 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 162 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in English Wikipedia and cited 120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20154 in March 2004
• Global: #49582 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #183410 in March 2014
• Global: #227325 in March 2008

There are 7 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) Uncontrolled format string		31.3668
2	Polish (pl) Format string attack		15.5428
3	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		14.5419
4	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		8.7424
5	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		7.6731
6	Italian (it) Format string attack		7.0755
7	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		1.5761

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Uncontrolled format string" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Uncontrolled format string		481 887
2	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		67 454
3	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		49 253
4	Polish (pl) Format string attack		35 318
5	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		25 909
6	Italian (it) Format string attack		17 613
7	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		7 260

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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 "Uncontrolled format string" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Uncontrolled format string		1 433
2	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		134
3	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		96
4	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		56
5	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		45
6	Italian (it) Format string attack		30
7	Polish (pl) Format string attack		12

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Uncontrolled format string		74
2	Polish (pl) Format string attack		23
3	Italian (it) Format string attack		22
4	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		17
5	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		11
6	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		9
7	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		6

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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 "Uncontrolled format string" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Polish (pl) Format string attack		1
2	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		0
3	English (en) Uncontrolled format string		0
4	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		0
5	Italian (it) Format string attack		0
6	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		0
7	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		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 "Uncontrolled format string" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 書式文字列攻撃		63
2	English (en) Uncontrolled format string		29
3	Korean (ko) 포맷 스트링 버그		10
4	Polish (pl) Format string attack		7
5	German (de) Formatstring-Angriff		6
6	Italian (it) Format string attack		5
7	Spanish (es) Format String Attack		0

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#	Language	Value
de	German Formatstring-Angriff
en	English Uncontrolled format string
es	Spanish Format String Attack
it	Italian Format string attack
ja	Japanese 書式文字列攻撃
ko	Korean 포맷 스트링 버그
pl	Polish Format string attack

Best Rank

English: #183410 03.2014

Global: #227325 03.2008

Best Rank

English: #20154 03.2004

Global: #49582 03.2004

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