Nuclei Templates

Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities in applications.

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Templates are the core of the nuclei scanner which powers the actual scanning engine. This repository stores and houses various templates for the scanner provided by our team, as well as contributed by the community. We hope that you also contribute by sending templates via pull requests or Github issues to grow the list.

Nuclei Templates overview

An overview of the nuclei template project, including statistics on unique tags, author, directory, severity, and type of templates. The table below contains the top ten statistics for each matrix; an expanded version of this is available here, and also available in JSON format for integration.

🚨 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Coverage Nuclei templates provide coverage for vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild: KEV Source Templates Description 🔴 CISA KEV 454 CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog 🟠 VulnCheck KEV 1449 VulnCheck KEV - Enhanced vulnerability intelligence 🟢 Both Sources 407 Templates covering vulnerabilities in both catalogs 💡 Total unique KEV templates: 1496 - Use nuclei -tags kev,vkev to scan for actively exploited vulnerabilities Nuclei Templates Top 10 statistics TAG COUNT AUTHOR COUNT DIRECTORY COUNT SEVERITY COUNT TYPE COUNT vuln 6468 dhiyaneshdk 1894 http 9281 info 4353 file 436 cve 3587 daffainfo 905 cloud 659 high 2552 dns 26 discovery 3265 princechaddha 854 file 436 medium 2457 vkev 1394 dwisiswant0 805 network 259 critical 1555 panel 1365 ritikchaddha 678 code 251 low 330 xss 1269 pussycat0x 675 dast 240 unknown 54 wordpress 1261 pikpikcu 353 workflows 205 exposure 1141 pdteam 314 javascript 92 wp-plugin 1103 pdresearch 275 ssl 38 osint 848 iamnoooob 263 dns 23 873 directories, 11997 files.

📖 Documentation

Please navigate to https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io for detailed documentation to build new or your own custom templates. We have also added a set of templates to help you understand how things work.

💪 Contributions

Nuclei-templates is powered by major contributions from the community. Template contributions , Feature Requests and Bug Reports are more than welcome.

💬 Discussion

Have questions / doubts / ideas to discuss? Feel free to open a discussion on Github discussions board.

👨‍💻 Community

You are welcome to join the active Discord Community to discuss directly with project maintainers and share things with others around security and automation. Additionally, you may follow us on Twitter to be updated on all the things about Nuclei.

Thanks again for your contribution and keeping this community vibrant. ❤️