nuclei AlternativesVulnerability Scanners and other similar apps like nuclei

nuclei is described as 'Nuclei is used to send requests across targets based on a template, leading to zero false positives and providing fast scanning on a large number of hosts. Nuclei offers scanning for a variety of protocols, including TCP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, File, Whois, Websocket, Headless etc' and is a vulnerability scanner in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to nuclei for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Web-based, Linux, Mac and SaaS apps. The best nuclei alternative is Burp Suite, which is free. Other great apps like nuclei are OpenVAS, Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), Nessus and Lonkero.

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  1. Burp Suite icon
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    Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to finding and exploiting...

    28 Burp Suite alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  2. OpenVAS icon
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    The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

    31 OpenVAS alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  3. Nessus icon
     28 likes

    Automated point-in-time assessments across various platforms discover vulnerabilities, detecting defects, malware, and misconfigurations while employing scoring systems to help prioritize remediation efforts and providing tools for both experienced users and newcomers.

    48 Nessus alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4. Lonkero icon
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    Wraps around your attack surface.

    5 Lonkero alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Rust
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. wapiti icon
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    Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. Wapiti is a command line tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. w3af icon
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    w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.

    21 w3af alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Nikto icon
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    Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1000 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers.

    17 Nikto alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Acunetix icon
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    Audit your website security and web applications for SQL injection, Cross site scripting and other web vulnerabilities with Acunetix Web Security Scanner. Download Free Edition!

    64 Acunetix alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
    • Wordpress
     
  9. LOKI is a free and simple IOC - "Incidents of Compromise" scanner - that goes beyond AV and malware scans to detect evidence of hacking.

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    • Windows
     
  10. Whitespots icon
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    📈 Measure and control your application security state; 🔎 Scan your code, containers, web and mobile applications; 🔥 Remove duplicates, validate results, and create Jira tasks in seconds; 🕜 Save your engineers time and automate your processes; ? Self-hosted.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Netsparker is the only False-positive-free web application security scanner. Simply point it at your website and it will automatically discover the flaws that could leave you dangerously exposed.

    20 Invicti (Netsparker) alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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