Nuclei templates

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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.

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🚨 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

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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.

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📖 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.

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Thanks again for your contribution and keeping this community vibrant. :heart: