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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Exploit Database match.
- 01
Packet Storm Security
Packet Storm Security provides security news, exploits, advisories, and tools for information security professionals.
Very close - 02
a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Close - 03
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Close - 04
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 - 05
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Close - 06
Suhosin PHP hardening project
Open source patch for PHP
Close - 07
OpenLDAP, Main Page
The Open Source for LDAP software and information. Home of OpenLDAP.
Close - 08
SecurityFocus
SecurityFocus is back. Bugtraq lives again. Subscribe to the curated vulnerability disclosure mailing list.
Close - 09
MediaWiki
free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation
Close - 10
FreeTDS.org
Close - 11
nginx
open source web server and a reverse proxy server
Close - 12
SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
Close - 13
LZ4 - Extremely fast compression
Compression algorithm
Close - 14
Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
Close - 15
CRS Project
The 1st Line Of Defense
Close - 16
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Close - 17
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Close - 18
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 […]
Close - 19
Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Close - 20
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Close
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,197
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 71 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