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ProjectDiscovery Nuclei Templates

MIT

The community template library behind the nuclei scanner — thousands of YAML checks for CVEs, misconfigurations and exposures, including CISA KEV coverage.

Summary

Nuclei Templates Community curated list of templates for the nuclei engine to find security vulnerabilities in applications. 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.
from the project README
Formats
yaml
License
MIT
Added
2026-09-10

Get it

From the project’s own instructions where it documents any; otherwise a plain clone.

  1. shell
    $ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

    Shallow clone: history isn’t needed for testing.

Contents

14,092 files 712.1 MB repository

  • .yaml 13,716
  • .txt 261
  • .yml 44
  • .md 18
  • .0_platform 11
  • .0_collector 9
  • .py 7
  • (no ext) 5
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