Installing Seclists Today
There is a community tool called seclists-installer (Python) useful for automated environments.
pip install seclists-installer
seclists-installer --install-dir /usr/share/seclists
Note: This is not an official OWASP tool; use with caution. installing seclists
The real power of installing SecLists comes when your tools automatically recognize it. There is a community tool called seclists-installer (Python)
brew install seclists
Installation path:
/usr/local/share/seclists/ (Intel Mac)
/opt/homebrew/share/seclists/ (Apple Silicon) Note: This is not an official OWASP tool; use with caution
nmap --script http-brute --script-args userdb=/usr/share/wordlists/SecLists/Usernames/top-usernames-shortlist.txt,passdb=/usr/share/wordlists/SecLists/Passwords/Common-Credentials/500-worst-passwords.txt -p 80 192.168.1.100
SecLists is already present, but may be an older version.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install seclists
Location: /usr/share/seclists/
