Format string attack

Format string attack - type of software vulnerability. Article "Format string attack" in Italian Wikipedia has 7.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 5 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Format string attack", its content was written by 22 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 162 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #10885 in December 2017
• Global: #49582 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #185186 in January 2008
• 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 "Format string attack" 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 "Format string attack" 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 "Format string attack" 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 "Format string attack" 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 "Format string attack" 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

Italian: #185186 01.2008

Global: #227325 03.2008

Best Rank

Italian: #10885 12.2017

Global: #49582 03.2004

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