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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.
★ 32.6k
Stars
4k forks · 100 open issues
+25/day
Growth · measured
Stars counted between two of our own snapshots roughly a week apart. The repository page gives the exact span.
55.2
Momentum / 100
see the breakdown below
6y ago
Created
last push 2d ago
Star history
How this score was built
| Component | Weight | Earned | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velocity | 55 | 27.1 | +25/day, log-scaled against a 750/day ceiling |
| Acceleration | 15 | 0.0 | last week ran 0.96× the monthly pace |
| Freshness | 15 | 15.0 | last push 2d ago; decays to zero at 180 days |
| Scale | 15 | 13.1 | 32.6k stars, log-scaled against 150k — stops a 3-star repo topping the board |
| Momentum | 100 | 55.2 | sum of the above |
Detail
| Topics | attack-surfacecve-scannerdasthacktoberfestnuclei-enginesecuritysecurity-scannersubdomain-takeovervulnerability-assessmentvulnerability-detectionvulnerability-scanner |
| Matched on | Security (security) |
| Short window | +176 stars over 7 days = 25.1/day |
| Long window | +680 stars over 26 days = 26.2/day |
| Lifetime average | 13.55 stars/day over 2,407 days |
| First seen here | 2026-10-11 |
| Last read | 2d ago |