# projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

> A community-curated collection of templates for the nuclei vulnerability scanner, covering CVEs, exposures, panels and known exploited vulnerabilities. It helps pentesters and bug bounty hunters quickly find issues in applications.

- Magnitude: 2.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 13,191 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-23, 11:07–13:24 UTC, ≈ 6 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: JavaScript · License: MIT · Created: 2020-04-04 · Last push: 2026-10-23
- GitHub: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates · Homepage: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

## Useful for

- Scan a web application for known CVEs using nuclei
- Check infrastructure for vulnerabilities from CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV catalogs
- Write a custom check template following the docs and submit a pull request

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-23 (UTC), 11:07–13:24: 13190 → 13191 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +6 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.9× that of the previous week and a half.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 3 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #3, +24 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,706
- Issues and pull requests: 16,976
- Watchers: 206
- Average over the last week: 13 per day
- Usual pace: 5 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v10.5.1 (2026-10-23)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-24 … 2026-10-23: 5, 2, 3, 4, 7, 3, 6, 5, 6, 3, 5, 4, 2, 3, 6, 8, 8, 4, 3, 5, 3, 2, 9, 3, 14, 9, 19, 16, 22, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #3, +24 stars

## More in this category

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   Tool for offline decryption of FairPlay-protected App Store IPAs: retrieves a 16-byte credential from a jailbroken device and decrypts arm64 Mach-O pages. Runs on macOS and Linux.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/EthanArbuckle/fairplay-decrypt.md
2. **mmparko/dsh-purge** — 7.4 · Breakout · Security · JavaScript · +232 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:37–13:15 UTC, ≈ 426 by evening
   A red-team plugin for the official DeepSeek Harness: patches host policies and prompts on a local install to separate host-layer blocks from model refusals.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/mmparko/dsh-purge.md
3. **9bie/php2shell-bypass-aslr-exp** — 6.9 · Early signal · Security · Python · +124 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:36–13:15 UTC, ≈ 239 by evening
   A proof-of-concept exploit that achieves RCE against PHP 8.4.26 on Apache prefork/mod_php using only HTTP multipart requests, bypassing ASLR via heap and libphp leak, without session_start() or target-side files.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/9bie/php2shell-bypass-aslr-exp.md
4. **ikow/php2shell-poc** — 6.8 · Breakout · Security · Python · +113 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:36–13:15 UTC, ≈ 236 by evening
   A proof-of-concept toolkit for two PHP pre-auth RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) affecting PHP 5.4.0 through 8.5.11, with exploits, detection rules, and a lab environment.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/ikow/php2shell-poc.md
5. **assetnote/php2shell-scanner** — 6.7 · Early signal · Security · Python · +112 stars measured 2026-10-23, 00:37–13:15 UTC, ≈ 216 by evening
   Python CLI scanner for detecting php2shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) in PHP applications. It sends multipart probes and flags targets based on memory-exhaustion errors, PHP-FPM worker failures, or known…
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/assetnote/php2shell-scanner.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-23 13:33 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.