Directory traversal

Directory traversal attack - computer security vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to the file system. Article “Directory traversal” in Spanish Wikipedia has 8.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Directory traversal”, its content was written by 14 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 167 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 92 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #18554 in May 2014
• Global: #135519 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #183792 in September 2011
• Global: #132463 in December 2014

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) Directory traversal attack		31.8086
2	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		29.9995
3	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		21.5192
4	German (de) Directory Traversal		12.9447
5	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		9.9955
6	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		8.8251
7	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		3.9876

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Directory traversal attack		851 439
2	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		276 569
3	German (de) Directory Traversal		94 494
4	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		54 384
5	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		14 490
6	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		13 284
7	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		4 670

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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 "Directory traversal" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Directory traversal attack		1 770
2	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		205
3	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		189
4	German (de) Directory Traversal		184
5	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		92
6	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		62
7	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		8

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Directory traversal attack		66
2	German (de) Directory Traversal		41
3	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		22
4	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		16
5	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		14
6	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		6
7	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		2

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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 "Directory traversal" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Directory Traversal		0
2	English (en) Directory traversal attack		0
3	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		0
4	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		0
5	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		0
6	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		0
7	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		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 "Directory traversal" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) ディレクトリトラバーサル		60
2	English (en) Directory traversal attack		14
3	German (de) Directory Traversal		6
4	Spanish (es) Directory traversal		4
5	Hebrew (he) Directory Traversal		4
6	Chinese (zh) 目录遍历		3
7	Italian (it) Directory traversal attack		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Directory Traversal
en	English Directory traversal attack
es	Spanish Directory traversal
he	Hebrew Directory Traversal
it	Italian Directory traversal attack
ja	Japanese ディレクトリトラバーサル
zh	Chinese 目录遍历

Best Rank

Spanish: #183792 09.2011

Global: #132463 12.2014

Best Rank

Spanish: #18554 05.2014

Global: #135519 10.2005

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