projectdiscovery/nuclei

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.

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Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 20 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 131
Human commits, 90 days: 273
Human commits, 365 days: 733
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 12%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (18 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (18 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 20
Last release: Aug 8, 2026 (2 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 24 hours

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 96% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 19 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 439 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 3
Contributors: 254

Top committers

Mzack9999: 35% of commits
dogancanbakir: 31% of commits
dwisiswant0: 15% of commits
ghost: 3% of commits
ShubhamRasal: 3% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Nov 24, 2020 to Nov 25, 2020: about 46 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 21, 2020 to Dec 23, 2020: about 204 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 22, 2021 to Jun 23, 2021: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 7, 2021 to Dec 8, 2021: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 18, 2022 to Aug 19, 2022: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 4, 2024 to Jun 5, 2024: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 31, 2024 to Aug 3, 2024: about 215 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 26, 2024 to Aug 30, 2024: about 466 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jan 7, 2025 to Jan 10, 2025: about 375 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 17, 2025 to Nov 19, 2025: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 14, 2026 to May 16, 2026: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 257 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 3, 2026 to Aug 4, 2026: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2026 to Aug 23, 2026: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 20, 2026 to Sep 20, 2026: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v3 (GO): latest v3.11.1, published Aug 8, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: projectdiscovery/nuclei, deps.dev: Go github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v3

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2