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swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings

A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF

Updated
2026-06-19
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-18
History
3 history points
License
MIT
Issues
Disabled
Forks
17,161
Commits
2,191 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

Updated
2026-07-04
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2020-11-10
History
6 history points
License
GPL-2.0
Issues
366 open
Forks
2,405
Commits
6,351 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
x64dbg/x64dbg

An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.

Updated
2026-07-08
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2013-11-14
History
2 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
575 open
Forks
2,772
Commits
6,152 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S

LEAKED SYSTEM PROMPTS FOR CHATGPT, CLAUDE, GEMINI, GROK, PERPLEXITY, CURSOR, LOVABLE, REPLIT, AND MORE! - AI SYSTEMS TRANSPARENCY FOR ALL! 👐

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-15
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2025-03-04
History
6 history points
License
AGPL-3.0
Issues
115 open
Forks
9,057
Commits
189 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
usestrix/strix

Open-source AI penetration testing tool to find and fix your app’s vulnerabilities.

Updated
2026-07-17
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2025-08-09
History
46 history points
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
199 open
Forks
4,341
Commits
571 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
+1,851 +4.6%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
+35 +6.5%
bee-san/Ciphey

⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

Updated
2026-07-03
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2019-07-18
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
1 open
Forks
1,441
Commits
2,965 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
smicallef/spiderfoot

SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface.

Updated
2026-04-13
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2012-04-28
History
3 history points
License
MIT
Issues
269 open
Forks
3,174
Commits
3,742 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days
0 0.0%
projectdiscovery/subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

Updated
2026-07-08
Lists
3 list mentions
First commit
2018-03-31
History
4 history points
License
MIT
Issues
8 open
Forks
1,572
Commits
2,216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
juice-shop/juice-shop

OWASP Juice Shop: Probably the most modern and sophisticated insecure web application

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-05
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-09-19
History
3 history points
License
MIT
Issues
3 open
Forks
18,576
Commits
23,171 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
OWASP/mastg

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

AI dev
Updated
2026-07-05
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-01
History
3 history points
License
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues
225 open
Forks
2,770
Commits
10,718 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
infosecn1nja/Red-Teaming-Toolkit

This repository contains cutting-edge open-source security tools (OST) for a red teamer and threat hunter.

Updated
2026-05-07
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-04-26
History
2 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
8 open
Forks
2,363
Commits
221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
1N3/Sn1per

Automated penetration testing & attack surface management platform. Recon, scan, exploit, report — 600+ exploits, 90+ integrations, 10K+ detections.

Updated
2026-07-04
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2015-09-06
History
2 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
7 open
Forks
2,105
Commits
722 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
OWASP/wstg

The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.

Updated
2026-06-30
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-05-14
History
2 history points
License
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues
41 open
Forks
1,641
Commits
1,241 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
six2dez/reconftw

reconFTW is a tool designed to perform automated recon on a target domain by running the best set of tools to perform scanning and finding out vulnerabilities

AI dev
Updated
2026-06-29
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-12-30
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
2 open
Forks
1,197
Commits
2,363 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
khast3x/h8mail

Email OSINT & Password breach hunting tool, locally or using premium services. Supports chasing down related email

Updated
2023-08-15
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2018-06-15
History
2 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
35 open
Forks
584
Commits
344 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
KuroLabs/stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻‍♂️⭐

Updated
2024-10-01
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2020-04-28
History
8 history points
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
15 open
Forks
245
Commits
162 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
evyatarmeged/Raccoon

A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning

Updated
2026-04-21
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2018-05-15
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
14 open
Forks
473
Commits
190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
nixawk/pentest-wiki

PENTEST-WIKI is a free online security knowledge library for pentesters / researchers. If you have a good idea, please share it with others.

Stack
GitHub topics
Updated
2023-09-13
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-11-23
History
2 history points
License
MIT
Issues
20 open
Forks
934
Commits
163 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history
nil0x42/phpsploit

Full-featured C2 framework which silently persists on webserver with a single-line PHP backdoor

Updated
2024-05-06
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2012-07-08
History
3 history points
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
27 open
Forks
470
Commits
1,021 commits
Star growth, last 7 days
No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days
No 7-day history