Bug Bounty Etiquette: More than Ethical Hacking (part one)

Part two of the etiquette series: don't flood targets with aggressive scans that trip IDS or risk DoS, don't ignore program rules or forbidden tools, don't submit noise, and don't beg for rewards.

Nuclei Templates v10.4.2 and v10.4.3 ship 226 new templates covering 123 CVEs—about 10 actively exploited KEV entries—and push deeper into AI/LLM attack surface with 27 first-time contributors joining.

Community-driven Nuclei templates stay enterprise-grade: each YAML template is lab-reproduced, checklist-hardened, and double-reviewed, proving exploitability instead of guessing from versions.

Version scanning lies by omission: only ~6% of CVEs are exploited. Nuclei validates exploitability at runtime with matchers, extractors, and multi-step flows, as the 2025 CrushFTP cases illustrate.

Legacy scanners fail from untrusted version-based guesses, not coverage gaps: only ~6% of CVEs are exploited, yet weaponization is fast. Runtime validation plus KEV focus yields actionable results.

Nuclei Templates v10.2.1/v10.2.2 add 106 templates covering 57 CVEs, including 10 KEVs like Ivanti EPMM RCE and Versa Concerto auth bypass. A template bounty program and real-time update bot launched.