SecLists
GitHub describes it as SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.. The repository metadata lists PHP as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.
danielmiessler/SecLists: About SecLists
GitHub describes it as SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.. The repository metadata lists PHP as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.
Repository scope
GitHub describes it as SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.. The repository metadata lists PHP as its primary language. The metadata lists the MIT license. The README describes the project this way: SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more. The goal is to enable a security tester to pull this repository onto a new testing box and have access to every type of list that may be needed.
Similar Projects
The README section "Similar Projects" states: - Assetnote Wordlists: High quality wordlists for content and subdomain discovery which are automatically updated every month. - fuzz.txt: Wordlists of "potentially dangerous" files. - FuzzDB: Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection and resource discovery. - PayloadsAllTheThings: A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF - BiblePass: Wordlists compiled from Bible verses - SamLists: Data-driven wordlists containing HTTP parameter names, directory names and filenames.
Wordlist Tools
The README section "Wordlist Tools" states: - Cook: A wordlist framework. An overpowered wordlist generator, splitter, merger, finder and saver. Cook facilitates the creation of permutations and combinations with a variety of encodings and many more features. - Wl: CLI utility for converting strings to a given casing style. - CeWL: Custom Word List generator. - Genoveva: From a word list, it generates up to 17,335,754 combinations per word, mixing lowercase, capitalized, uppercase, full and partial L33T (for each vowel and "s"), reverse, numbers from 1 to 4 digits, dates in mmddyyyy format from 1950 to 2030, date format mmddyy, symbols at the end, symbols between name and date...
Wordlist Tools
The README section "Wordlist Tools" states: Also checkout the .bin directory in this repository. We have a number of wordlist generators and mutators there.
Editorial conclusion
The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.
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