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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
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Closest alternative
Packet Storm

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01 · 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.

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Cookie banner
Cookiebot
US company
1 tool

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Exploit Database

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Fewer trackers than Exploit DatabaseNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Exploit Database match.

  1. 01
    Packet Storm packetstormsecurity.com English No trackers

    Packet Storm Security

    Packet Storm Security provides security news, exploits, advisories, and tools for information security professionals.

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  2. 02
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures cve.org Top 10K English No trackers

    a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities

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  3. 03
    PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

    The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

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  4. 04
    OpenAlex openalex.org English No trackers

    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.

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  5. 05
    MusicBrainz musicbrainz.org English No trackers

    MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia

    online music metadata database

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  6. 06
    Suhosin suhosin.org English No trackers

    Suhosin PHP hardening project

    Open source patch for PHP

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  7. 07
    OpenLDAP openldap.org Top 10K No trackers

    OpenLDAP, Main Page

    The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.

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  8. 08
    SecurityFocus securityfocus.com Top 10K English No trackers

    SecurityFocus

    SecurityFocus is back. Bugtraq lives again. Subscribe to the curated vulnerability disclosure mailing list.

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  9. 09
    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10
    FreeTDS.org freetds.org Top 10K No trackers

    FreeTDS.org

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  11. 11
    nginx nginx.org Top 100 No trackers

    nginx

    open source web server and a reverse proxy server

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  12. 12
    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

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  13. 13
    LZ4 lz4.org English No trackers

    LZ4 - Extremely fast compression

    Compression algorithm

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  14. 14
    British and Irish Legal Information Institute bailii.org English No trackers

    Making sure you're not a bot!

    legal database

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  15. 15
    coreruleset.org English No trackers

    CRS Project

    The 1st Line Of Defense

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  16. 16
    Svelte svelte.dev English No trackers

    Svelte • Web development for the rest of us

    Web development for the rest of us

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  17. 17
    Wikidata wikidata.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikidata

    free multilingual online knowledge graph

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  18. 18
    Hardened PHP hardened-php.net Top 10K English No trackers

    Hardened PHP - Hardened-PHP

    PHP is far and away the most popular backend programming language today, with more than 80 websites worldwide taking advantage of PHP solutions. All of the most popular CMS platforms – including WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal (just to name a few) leverage this technology. It’s flexibility and versatility make it a powerhouse programming language, but […]

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  19. 19
    MetaCPAN metacpan.org English No trackers

    Search the CPAN - metacpan.org

    open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

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  20. 20
    Swift swift.org English No trackers

    Swift Programming Language

    Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,212
Vector
384-d
Query
48 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.

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MetaCPANHardened PHPLZ4nginxOpenLDAPSuhosinOpenAlexPostgreSQLCommon Vulnerabilities and ExposuresPacket Storm