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November 26, 2025 · View on GitHub

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 SourceTemplatesDescription
🔴 CISA KEV454CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
🟠 VulnCheck KEV1449VulnCheck KEV - Enhanced vulnerability intelligence
🟢 Both Sources407Templates 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

TAGCOUNTAUTHORCOUNTDIRECTORYCOUNTSEVERITYCOUNTTYPECOUNT
vuln6468dhiyaneshdk1894http9281info4353file436
cve3587daffainfo905cloud659high2552dns26
discovery3265princechaddha854file436medium2457
vkev1394dwisiswant0805network259critical1555
panel1365ritikchaddha678code251low330
xss1269pussycat0x675dast240unknown54
wordpress1261pikpikcu353workflows205
exposure1141pdteam314javascript92
wp-plugin1103pdresearch275ssl38
osint848iamnoooob263dns23

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.

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💬 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. :heart: