Alternatives

Shortscan alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Shortscan

An IIS short filename enumeration tool

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#1

Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner

Similarity 125Trust 86Excellent 92

Web Cache Vulnerability Scanner is a Go-based CLI tool for testing for web cache poisoning. It is developed by Hackmanit GmbH (http://hackmanit.de/).

1.2K starsJan 21, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add Hackmanit/Web-Cache-Vulnerability-Scanner
#2

Inql

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

InQL is a robust, open-source Burp Suite extension for advanced GraphQL testing, offering intuitive vulnerability detection, customizable scans, and seamless Burp integration.

1.8K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityKotlinSecurity
$ npx skills add doyensec/inql
#3

Nuclei

Similarity 118Trust 98Excellent 100

Nuclei is a fast, customizable vulnerability scanner powered by the global security community and built on a simple YAML-based DSL, enabling collaboration to tackle trending vulnerabilities on the internet. It helps you find vulnerabilities in your applications, APIs, networks, DNS, and cloud configurations.

29K starsJun 13, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add projectdiscovery/nuclei
#4

Vuls

Similarity 116Trust 96Excellent 100

Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices

12K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add future-architect/vuls
#5

Kube Score

Similarity 114Trust 94Excellent 100

Kubernetes object analysis with recommendations for improved reliability and security. kube-score actively prevents downtime and bugs in your Kubernetes YAML and Charts. Static code analysis for Kubernetes.

3.1K starsMay 20, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add zegl/kube-score
#6

Artemis

Similarity 114Trust 92Excellent 100

A modular vulnerability scanner with automatic report generation capabilities.

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add CERT-Polska/Artemis
#7

Authz0

Similarity 113Trust 85Strong 84

🔑 Authz0 is an automated authorization test tool. Unauthorized access can be identified based on URLs and Roles & Credentials.

428 starsJun 8, 2026 pushsecurityGoSecurity
$ npx skills add hahwul/authz0
#8

Hakrawler

Similarity 111Trust 88Strong 77

Simple, fast web crawler designed for easy, quick discovery of endpoints and assets within a web application

5.1K starsDec 21, 2024 pushsecurityGoOSINT
$ npx skills add hakluke/hakrawler
#9

Zaproxy

Similarity 111Trust 95Excellent 100

The ZAP by Checkmarx Core project

15K starsJun 11, 2026 pushsecurityJavaSecurity
$ npx skills add zaproxy/zaproxy
#10

Lynis

Similarity 110Trust 94Excellent 100

Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional.

16K starsMay 11, 2026 pushsecurityShellSecurity
$ npx skills add CISOfy/lynis
#11

Wpscan

Similarity 109Trust 93Excellent 100

WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com

9.6K starsJun 12, 2026 pushsecurityRubySecurity
$ npx skills add wpscanteam/wpscan
#12

Bandit

Similarity 109Trust 94Excellent 100

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

8.1K starsMay 25, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add PyCQA/bandit
#13

GitGraber

Similarity 109Trust 93Excellent 99

gitGraber: monitor GitHub to search and find sensitive data in real time for different online services such as: Google, Amazon, Paypal, Github, Mailgun, Facebook, Twitter, Heroku, Stripe...

2.3K starsMar 26, 2026 pushsecurityPythonOSINT
$ npx skills add hisxo/gitGraber
#14

Raccoon

Similarity 108Trust 93Excellent 100

A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning

3.6K starsApr 21, 2026 pushsecurityPythonSecurity
$ npx skills add evyatarmeged/Raccoon
#15

Shodan Dorks

Similarity 107Trust 85Strong 83

An auto-updating list of shodan dorks with info on the amount of results they return!

387 starsJun 16, 2026 pushsecuritySecurityClaude Code
$ npx skills add dootss/shodan-dorks
#16

Sn0int

Similarity 107Trust 91Excellent 100

Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager

2.5K starsMay 15, 2026 pushsecurityRustSecurity
$ npx skills add kpcyrd/sn0int

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