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seclists

2026.2 open-source

SecLists is a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, including usernames, passwords, URLs, fuzzing payloads, and web shells.

Summary

seclists is an open-source collection of wordlists and payloads used during security assessments, covering usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, and web shells, free to use and pull down via git clone, a zip download, or package managers like apt on Kali and pacman on BlackArch. It is a set of files rather than a running tool, meant to sit on disk alongside scanners like Gobuster, Hydra, or Burp Suite, which read the lists as input, making it most useful to penetration testers and red teamers who need reference wordlists on a fresh testing box rather than a program to configure. Its documentation lists Assetnote Wordlists, FuzzDB, and PayloadsAllTheThings as similar projects, distinguishing itself by breadth across categories rather than automated generation. First committed in 2012, it has 367 contributors and over 1,300 commits in the past year, with a release as recently as five months ago.

SecLists is a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, including usernames, passwords, URLs, fuzzing payloads, and web shells.

How seclists helps

What usernames and passwords should I try first against a login I've found?

supplies ranked credential lists, from top-used passwords to leaked-database dumps and default vendor credentials, that Hydra or a similar tool reads directly for the attempt

Which hidden directories and files might exist on this web server?

provides content-discovery wordlists like the DirBuster sets and technology-specific paths for Kubernetes, GitLab, Grafana, and similar platforms, for a scanner such as Gobuster to brute-force

Are there subdomains or DNS records I haven't found yet?

includes large subdomain wordlists, including multi-million-entry sets built from fresh Cloudflare data, for a DNS brute-forcer to check against the target domain

What credentials or endpoints are specific to the AI or API stack I'm testing?

contains dedicated lists for MCP server discovery, LLM safety-boundary testing, GraphQL and Swagger/OpenAPI endpoints, and login-bypass payloads for modern API surfaces

Would a wordlist in a language other than English catch usernames a generic list would miss?

includes locale-specific lists such as Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Spanish names and passwords for testing non-English-speaking targets

all 11 features, with the evidence for each →

Languages

Not documented

Features

11 capabilities

Built from seclists's releases, docs, README and our own runs. “Seen” marks the month we first spotted a release the vendor didn't date. Group names and tags are our labels.

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What seclists offers you

  • MCP server1
All capabilities 11 capabilities
Common directory and file discovery shipped Expands wordlists for discovering standard web directories, files, and SPA endpoints. 8 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release 8 total

  • Adds Claude-related paths to quickhits.txt for discovery fuzzing.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠ 2026.2 · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • All DirBuster wordlists are renamed with the DirBuster-2007 prefix (e.g., dirbuster/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt is now DirBuster-2007/...); any tooling or scripts referencing the old paths will break. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • New YYYY-MM-DD date-format wordlists for fuzzing date-based parameters and paths. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds more permutations to common_directories.txt for broader directory brute-forcing. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds Pipfile entries to common.txt for web-content discovery. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds IIS default page and image files wordlist. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
Credential bruteforce enhancements shipped Adds password patterns, dates, and updated leaked credential lists to common wordlists. 5 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release

  • Adds LureScope-observed SSH credential list for credential-stuffing and brute-force testing. 2026.2 · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds 2025 most-used passwords wordlist for up-to-date credential attacks. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds new SSH credential combo to ssh-betterdefaultpasslist.txt. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds keyboard-walk password patterns to existing credential wordlists. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds 2024-197_most_used_passwords.txt (derived from 2024-200_most_used_passwords) to Common-Credentials. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
API and MCP surface discovery shipped Covers API endpoints, GraphQL payloads, Swagger definitions, and Model Context Protocol server enumeration. 4 releases · first seen Sep 2025

Shared capability: MCP server

Also counts toward: MCP server

release

  • Expands API fuzzing endpoints, GraphQL payloads, login bypass payloads, Swagger.txt, SAP NetWeaver, and Spring endpoints. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Expands Swagger/OpenAPI endpoint wordlist for API surface discovery. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • New Model Context Protocol (MCP) server discovery dictionary for enumerating AI/LLM tool endpoints. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds MCP server entries to common.txt for broad discovery sweeps. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
DNS reconnaissance lists shipped Offers large-scale and updated subdomain discovery wordlists for DNS enumeration. 4 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release

  • Updates top-1-million subdomains lists with fresh Cloudflare data. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds DNS subdomain entry take-survey to subdomain discovery lists. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds two 10 million+ entry subdomain fuzzing/discovery wordlists: Discovery/DNS/FUZZSUBS_CYFARE_1.txt and Discovery/DNS/FUZZSUBS_CYFARE_2.txt. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Expands combined_subdomains.txt with more subdomain entries. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
Cloud and infrastructure discovery shipped Includes wordlists for Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, Grafana, GitLab, Prometheus, OpenWRT, and RTSP cameras. 3 releases · first seen Mar 2026

release

  • Adds new technology-specific wordlists for Kubernetes, Docker, Elasticsearch, Grafana, GitLab, and Prometheus discovery. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds RTSP camera discovery wordlist for IoT/camera reconnaissance. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds OpenWRT discovery wordlist for router/embedded device enumeration. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
Language-specific brute-forcing shipped Provides localized names and passwords for targeted credential attacks. 3 releases · first seen Sep 2025

release

  • Adds Brazilian Portuguese common.txt and Brazilian names list for localized brute-forcing. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds Polish password wordlist for language-specific credential attacks. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds common Spanish names and words for language-aware password and username enumeration. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
Content-type enumeration shipped Includes MIME types and common file extensions for content discovery and fuzzing. 3 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release

  • Expands web-all-content-types.txt with all IANA MIME types for content-type fuzzing. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds image/jpg and application/x-httpd-php content types to web-all-content-types.txt. 2025.2 · Apr 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds protobuf mimetypes to relevant wordlists. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
Java platform discovery shipped Provides endpoints and permutations for Spring Boot, SAP NetWeaver, and Spring Cloud Gateway. 3 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release

  • Adds new SAP payload to the SAP fuzzing wordlist. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Adds Spring Cloud Gateway prefix permutations to Java-Spring-Boot.txt for behind-gateway service discovery. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history
  • Updates spring-boot.txt to cover Spring Boot v2.1.7 endpoints. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
Injection payload testing shipped Provides wordlists for SQL injection and server-side template injection discovery, including a risk-classified SQLi payload list and a template engine fuzzing wordlist. 2 releases · first seen Oct 2026

release

  • Adds a risk-classified SQLi payload list for structured injection testing. 2026.2 · Oct 2026 · source · release history
  • Adds a template engine fuzzing wordlist for SSTI discovery. 2026.2 · Oct 2026 · source · release history
AI and LLM security testing shipped Includes payloads for AI ethical boundary testing and LLM data leakage detection. 2 releases · first seen Feb 2025

release

  • Adds AI ethical and safety boundary testing wordlists for LLM/AI security assessments. 2026.1 · Mar 2026 · source · release history
  • Expands LLM data-leakage payload wordlist with more entries. 2025.1 · Feb 2025 · source · release history
Active Directory enumeration shipped Provides specific wordlists for Active Directory discovery and password attacks. 1 release · first seen Sep 2025

release

  • New Active Directory wordlist for AD-specific enumeration and password attacks. 2025.3 · Sep 2025 · source · release history

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Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for seclists, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows. A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.

How this is scored
  • Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
  • Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
  • Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
  • Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.

Release-note detail over time

See how much detail seclists puts in its release notes, quarter by quarter, and compare it with tracked tools in the same category. This history uses up to ten retained, reviewed notes per tool; sparse or blank older quarters may reflect that limit.

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Coverage

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What seclists connects to, runs on and detects, read from its release notes and docs. So far: 4 new detections.

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4 changes, tracked since Oct 27, 2026.

  • Oct 272026

    new Claude files added to quickhits.txt

    feat(wordlist): Added Claude files to quickhits.txt (PR #1338)

    2026.2 Source ↗

  • Oct 272026

    new LureScope observed SSH credentials wordlist

    feat(wordlist): Added LureScope observed SSH credentials (PR #1342)

    2026.2 Source ↗

  • Oct 272026

    new Risk-classified SQLi payload list

    With SQLi payloads

    feat(wordlist): Added risk-classified list of SQLi payloads

    2026.2 Source ↗

  • Oct 272026

    new Template engine fuzzing wordlist

    feat(wordlist): Added template engine fuzzing wordlist (PR #1340)

    2026.2 Source ↗

How we count

Read from 1 of 5 release notes and docs updates we hold for seclists. "First seen" is the earliest note that names something; "last" is the latest. Our history may start partway through seclists's life, so an old integration can show a recent first-seen date.

Each change counts once: "added 40 checks" is one line, so the numbers measure how often coverage moves, not how big the catalogue is or how well it detects.

Releases

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5 entries

  1. October 20261
  2. March 20261
  3. September 20251
  4. April 20251
  5. February 20251
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    5 entries

    Project health

    Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in danielmiessler/SecLists, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.

    1. Contributors 26 −17 vs prior 12 months
    2. Maintainers 2 +1 joined · −0 left, last 12 months
    3. Bus factor 1 committers behind half the commits
    4. Community-filed 59% of issues opened, last 12 months
    5. Median time to close 1.3 days first maintainer reply 24 hours
    6. Open backlog 8 of 328 issues ever filed
    1. Issues opened / month 0 · 0 communitymaintainers
    2. Open backlog 8
    3. Contributors / month 4
    4. Commits / month 5
    5. Stars 73,648
    Issue themes, last 12 months
    • bugs 15%
    • features 66%
    • questions 4%
    • other 15%

    Counts from the project's public repository and git history; no individuals are identified. Maintainers are the committers covering 80% of the last year's commits. how we measure this

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