nuclei
Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations. (by projectdiscovery)
ZAP
The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project (by zaproxy)

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nuclei | ZAP | |
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17 | 70 | |
22,503 | 13,288 | |
2.4% | 2.2% | |
9.7 | 9.3 | |
2 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Go | Java | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nuclei
Posts with mentions or reviews of nuclei.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.
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The 36 tools that SaaS can use to keep their product and data safe from criminal hackers (manual research)
Nuclei
- Show HN: Oneleet – Penetration Testing for SoC 2 and beyond
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Looking for short-term, resource intensive tasks to throw at a cloud server
If you own any web properties, you can use https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei running in a beefy VM to scan them for vulnerabilities. It will scale to use all available resources if you give it a big box.
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Pentesting Tools I Use Everyday
Learn more about nuclei here: https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io/
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How I found 130+ Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities using Nuclei
Read about how I was able to find 136 Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities on a Single Target using the Nuclei tool 👉👉👉Click Here - How I found 130+ Sub-domain Takeover vulnerabilities using Nuclei
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How to develope a Network Vuln Scanner
I’d look at flan and nmap and nuclei for inspiration.
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Thoughts on Vuln scanning public facing websites/hosts during an incident?
Had an idea to leverage the community vuln scanner Nuclei (https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io/) to just run a quick scan against the public facing hostname/IP. The job isn't supposed to be "hey you're vulnerable to xyz, but to aid in the discovering initial access. I believe this would be considered "good faith" and you're not technically be doing anything nefarious, but wanted to get the communities thoughts on this.
- Nuclei – Community Powered Vulnerability Scanner
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Log4J Network Scanning/Detection on a 100k+ Node Network
Check out Nuclei (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei)
ZAP
Posts with mentions or reviews of ZAP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-18.
- Show HN: Kate's App
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Final Testing, Going Live, and Summary (Nerd Streetwear Online Store) Part IV
Tools: Conduct a security audit using tools like OWASP ZAP to identify vulnerabilities.
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A few tools for pentest remediation
Here are a few tools you can use: https://www.zaproxy.org/ (Web app scanner) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=importer.bilendo.de (SSL server test) https://github.com/santoru/shcheck (Security Header Check) https://observatory.mozilla.org/ (Content Security Policy validator)
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Top 11 DevOps Security Tools
4. ZAP
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AppSec: The Security Specialty That Rules Them All
ZAP (https://www.zaproxy.org/)
- Zap: The Open-Source Security Testing Tool for Web Applications
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Top 5 Techniques to Protect Web Apps from Unauthorized JavaScript Execution
Use tools like OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite to scan for known vulnerabilities. Automated scans provide a quick way to identify common security issues.
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Automated ways to security audit your website
There are many tools available for this, e.g. Burp Suite, ZAP, etc. We've evaluated a few and found Probely to be the most comprehensive. They have a trial, so your first few scans will be free. After each scan, you will get a report that includes a list of all findings and a recommendation on how to fix them. You will also get a PCI-DSS and OWASP compliance report.
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API Security Fundamentals: Key Practices for Developers
Overview: [ZAP](https://www.zaproxy.org/ is a popular open-source tool for detecting security vulnerabilities in web applications.
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Bruno
I use ZAP [1] with the OAST add-on for this at the moment. I admit the UX isn't perfect, but it serves my purpose.
If I also want control over the responses (e.g. return a 401 status code for every fifth request), I have a custom extender script [2] for that.
[1]: https://www.zaproxy.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nuclei and ZAP you can also consider the following projects:
jaeles - The Swiss Army knife for automated Web Application Testing
awesome-dva - A curated list of "damn vulnerable apps" and exploitable VMs / wargames. See contributing.md for information.
amass - In-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery
HTML Purifier - Standards compliant HTML filter written in PHP
ffuf - Fast web fuzzer written in Go
PHP Encryption - Simple Encryption in PHP.

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Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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