Shellshock

Shellshock - security bug in the Unix Bash shell. Article “Shellshock” in Chinese Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 3 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.01 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Shellshock”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Chinese Wikipedia and edited by 324 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 91 times in Chinese Wikipedia and cited 770 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Chinese): #15318 in October 2014
• Global: #253 in September 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Chinese): #53264 in October 2014
• Global: #997 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, 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) Shellshock (software bug)		65.7161
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		60.7256
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		51.7444
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		46.5822
5	Czech (cs) Shellshock		43.6149
6	Dutch (nl) Shellshock (softwarebug)		32.8751
7	Estonian (et) Shellshock		31.0097
8	Indonesian (id) Shellshock (bug perangkat lunak)		24.1688
9	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		23.0338
10	Norwegian (no) Shellshock		22.6559

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		2 280 026
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		204 958
3	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		110 828
4	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		72 415
5	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		60 143
6	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		53 214
7	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		42 940
8	Polish (pl) Shellshock		17 370
9	Portuguese (pt) Shellshock		12 572
10	Czech (cs) Shellshock		9 812

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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 "Shellshock" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		2 153
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		192
3	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		111
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		103
5	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		99
6	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		83
7	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		81
8	Czech (cs) Shellshock		19
9	Dutch (nl) Shellshock (softwarebug)		17
10	Polish (pl) Shellshock		14

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		153
2	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		44
3	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		24
4	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		21
5	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		12
6	Czech (cs) Shellshock		9
7	Polish (pl) Shellshock		9
8	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		8
9	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		7
10	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		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 "Shellshock" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		1
2	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		1
3	Czech (cs) Shellshock		0
4	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		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

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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 "Shellshock" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shellshock (software bug)		245
2	Japanese (ja) 2014年シェルショック脆弱性		132
3	Russian (ru) Bashdoor		94
4	Chinese (zh) Shellshock		91
5	French (fr) Shellshock (faille informatique)		76
6	Arabic (ar) شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)		53
7	Korean (ko) 셸쇼크		42
8	Polish (pl) Shellshock		14
9	German (de) Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)		8
10	Spanish (es) Shellshock (error de software)		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شيلشوك (ثغرة أمنية)
cs	Czech Shellshock
de	German Shellshock (Sicherheitslücke)
en	English Shellshock (software bug)
es	Spanish Shellshock (error de software)
et	Estonian Shellshock
fr	French Shellshock (faille informatique)
he	Hebrew Shellshock
id	Indonesian Shellshock (bug perangkat lunak)
ja	Japanese 2014年シェルショック脆弱性
ko	Korean 셸쇼크
nl	Dutch Shellshock (softwarebug)
no	Norwegian Shellshock
pl	Polish Shellshock
pt	Portuguese Shellshock
ru	Russian Bashdoor
zh	Chinese Shellshock

Best Rank

Chinese: #53264 10.2014

Global: #997 10.2014

Best Rank

Chinese: #15318 10.2014

Global: #253 09.2014

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