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Exploit Database
Who runs Exploit Database, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest vulnerability database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Packet Storm
Measured from Exploit Database’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Exploit Database01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Exploit Database
Exploit Database exploit-db.com
The Exploit Database - Exploits, Shellcode, 0days, Remote Exploits, Local Exploits, Web Apps, Vulnerability Reports, Security Articles, Tutorials and more.
Wikidata: archive of public exploits
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Exploit Database tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
9 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- Cookiebot
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Exploit Database
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Exploit Database, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Packet Storm Security
Packet Storm Security provides security news, exploits, advisories, and tools for information security professionals.
Very close - 02
SecLists.Org Security Mailing List Archive
Security mailing list archive for the Nmap lists, Bugtraq, Full Disclosure, Security Basics, Pen-test, and dozens more. Search capabilities and RSS feeds with smart excerpts are available
Very close - 03
a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Close - 04
Rapid7 Managed Cybersecurity: Outpace Attackers
Outpace attackers with the only endpoint to cloud, unified cybersecurity platform. Build business resilience with expert-led 24/7 MDR.
Close - 05
Home - CookieSearch
CookieSearch is an open-source database of 100,000+ pre-categorized cookies. Find information on web cookies - category, URL, script and description.
Close - 06
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close - 07
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Close - 08
The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Close - 09
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Close - 10
Suhosin PHP hardening project
Open source patch for PHP
Close - 11
Learn Cyber Security | TryHackMe Cyber Training
TryHackMe is a free online platform to learn cyber security through hands-on labs and exercises, accessible entirely in your browser — perfect for all skill levels.
Close - 12
abuse.ch | Fighting malware and botnets
abuse.ch | Fighting malware and botnets
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OpenLDAP, Main Page
The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.
Close - 14
SecurityFocus
SecurityFocus is back. Bugtraq lives again. Subscribe to the curated vulnerability disclosure mailing list.
Close - 15
Cookiedatabase.org
Close - 16
Zenodo
research data repository
Close - 17
curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close - 19
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close - 20 SciELO scielo.org
bibliographic database of open access journals
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Exploit Database’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Exploit Database uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Exploit Database adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 54 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Exploit Database’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.exploit-db.com/js/core/jquery.min.js
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.exploit-db.com/js/core/bootstrap.min.js
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Cookie consent
- Cookiebot page source: consent.cookiebot.com/
- Security
- Sucuri header x-sucuri-id: 15012
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on exploit-db.com 16/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- nginx · not on exploit-db.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on exploit-db.com 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on exploit-db.com 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on exploit-db.com 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on exploit-db.com 4/20
- jQuery 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on exploit-db.com 3/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on exploit-db.com 3/20
- Fastly · not on exploit-db.com 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on exploit-db.com 2/20
- Google Analytics 2/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on exploit-db.com 2/20
- Apple Business · not on exploit-db.com 2/20
- Atlassian · not on exploit-db.com 2/20