Shellcode

Shellcode - small piece of code used as a payload to exploit a software vulnerability. Article “Shellcode” in Portuguese Wikipedia has 26.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 22 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Shellcode”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Portuguese Wikipedia and edited by 434 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Portuguese Wikipedia and cited 546 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Portuguese): #9336 in October 2023
• Global: #1440 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Portuguese): #50973 in December 2025
• Global: #122791 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, 2026 (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		33.152
2	Portuguese (pt) Shellcode		26.9041
3	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		21.4596
4	Azerbaijani (az) Shellcode		17.7368
5	Italian (it) Shellcode		15.8118
6	Hebrew (he) קוד ייעודי		15.3106
7	Malay (ms) Kod cangkerang		13.6297
8	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		13.3467
9	German (de) Shellcode		11.2486
10	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		9.3357

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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		988 314
2	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		159 544
3	French (fr) Shellcode		100 011
4	German (de) Shellcode		82 467
5	Spanish (es) Shellcode		66 518
6	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		51 079
7	Italian (it) Shellcode		46 203
8	Polish (pl) Shellcode		39 119
9	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		28 968
10	Korean (ko) 셸코드		18 910

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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 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellcode		1 431
2	French (fr) Shellcode		93
3	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		88
4	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		65
5	German (de) Shellcode		64
6	Spanish (es) Shellcode		46
7	Italian (it) Shellcode		40
8	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		39
9	Polish (pl) Shellcode		35
10	Portuguese (pt) Shellcode		17

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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		148
2	French (fr) Shellcode		45
3	Italian (it) Shellcode		44
4	German (de) Shellcode		41
5	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		33
6	Spanish (es) Shellcode		21
7	Polish (pl) Shellcode		21
8	Hebrew (he) קוד ייעודי		14
9	Dutch (nl) Shellcode		14
10	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		11

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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 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		1
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		169
2	Japanese (ja) シェルコード		155
3	Arabic (ar) نص واجهة الأوامر البرمجي		66
4	Chinese (zh) Shellcode		47
5	Azerbaijani (az) Shellcode		16
6	Russian (ru) Шелл-код		15
7	Korean (ko) 셸코드		14
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

Portuguese: #50973 12.2025

Global: #122791 12.2011

Best Rank

Portuguese: #9336 10.2023

Global: #1440 04.2003

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