# projectdiscovery/nuclei

> A vulnerability scanner driven by YAML templates that checks applications, APIs, networks, DNS and cloud configurations for known vulnerabilities. Community-contributed templates mimic real-world exploitation steps to reduce false positives.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 32,545 total · +20 stars measured 2026-11-02, 00:12–23:09 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2020-04-03 · Last push: 2026-11-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei · Homepage: https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/tools/nuclei · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/projectdiscovery/nuclei

## Useful for

- Scan your web services against the latest CVE templates
- Embed vulnerability checks into a CI/CD pipeline as regression tests
- Write a custom YAML template for a specific infrastructure vulnerability

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-02 (UTC), 00:12–23:09: 32525 → 32545 stars (+20). This is the change over that interval.

## 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: 3,962
- Issues and pull requests: 6,976
- Watchers: 280
- Average over the last week: 29 per day
- Usual pace: 29 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: v3.11.1 (2026-08-08)

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

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: 32, 34, 16, 36, 27, 33, 55, 34, 35, 35, 23, 20, 21, 20, 22, 38, 36, 35, 37, 35, 28, 18, 46, 27, 38, 34, 30, 33, 21, 20

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-02 1.9, 10-03 2.0, 10-04 2.2, 10-05 2.5, 10-24 2.1, 10-25 2.1, 10-26 2.1, 10-27 2.8, 10-28 2.6, 10-29 2.8, 10-30 2.6, 10-31 2.4, 11-01 2.1, 11-02 2.0

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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 2026-11-02 23:16 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.