How to Use Nuclei And Automate Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Source: YouTube · NahamSec · published Nov 17, 2025 · 21:10
Most users only utilize about 10% of Nuclei's capabilities by treating it merely as a bucket for community templates, missing out on its true power and intended purpose 0:30.
Key Takeaways:
• The common approach of running Nuclei with community templates often leads to duplicate results and barely scratches the surface of the tool's capabilities 0:00.
• Exploring the official documentation and testing different options reveals that hackers are severely underutilizing the tool 0:18.
• Relying solely on community templates is considered a waste of time and is not what Nuclei was originally built to do 0:34.
• The future direction of Nuclei extends far beyond simply being a repository for community-sourced templates 0:42.
To truly master Nuclei, security professionals need to move past the basic template mindset and explore its advanced, underlying functionalities.
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You know how everyone's been obsessed with the Nuclei community templates? Like that is the entire story for most people that use Nuclei. Run Nuclei, give it your target, cross your fingers, and hope that you didn't pull 20 different duplicates. But to be honest, that's barely scratching the surface. Because once you spend a little bit of time reading the docs or messing around with all the different features and options that nobody talks about, you realize that you have been using maybe 10% of what Nuclei can actually do. [music] So in this video, I wanted to fix that. Most hackers treat Nuclei like a bucket of community templates. And don't get me wrong, that's cool if you like to waste time, but that is not why Nuclei was built. And it's definitely not where it's headed. So, I did reach…