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Hoang Nguyen Dinh

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Hoang Nguyen Dinh

Hoang contributed to the projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates repository by developing and maintaining security vulnerability detection templates and advisories. Over four months, Hoang built YAML and Python-based templates to identify high-severity CVEs in platforms like WordPress, Jenkins, Tomcat, and Oracle WebLogic, integrating advanced detection logic such as OAST payloads, session handling, and regex-based matchers. The work included refining exploit payloads in JavaScript, improving code hygiene through linting and formatting, and consolidating CVE advisories for better data quality. Hoang’s engineering approach emphasized maintainability, accuracy, and comprehensive vulnerability coverage, demonstrating depth in security research, template development, and configuration management within the repository.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

90%Features

Repository Contributions

29Total
Bugs
1
Commits
29
Features
9
Lines of code
1,368
Activity Months4

Your Network

247 people

Shared Repositories

247

Work History

December 2025

6 Commits • 1 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 monthly summary for projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates focusing on data quality and vulnerability advisory coverage. Implemented a feature to consolidate CVE advisories for WordPress plugins (Eventin, Keydatas) and Fides Privacy Center, plus Oracle WebLogic vulnerability, and performed related maintenance to improve accuracy and discoverability of advisories. Performed data hygiene tasks (comment updates and line ending normalization) to standardize data formatting across the repository.

November 2025

7 Commits • 3 Features

Nov 1, 2025

Month: 2025-11 | Focused on delivering up-to-date security advisories, enhancing vulnerability detection, and improving exploit payloads within the nuclei-templates repository. The work emphasized business value through better risk visibility, faster remediation guidance, and more accurate detection templates for customers and internal use.

September 2025

5 Commits • 1 Features

Sep 1, 2025

Performance summary for September 2025 (Month: 2025-09) for the nuclei-templates repository. Delivered new and updated WordPress vulnerability templates to detect CVE-2024-8353 (GiveWP), CVE-2025-3515, and a critical arbitrary file upload vulnerability in Contact Form 7 Drag and Drop, with fuzzing improvements, extraction fixes, and improved targeting. Completed code quality and YAML readability improvements to reduce technical debt without changing functionality. Overall impact includes expanded detection coverage for WordPress plugins, faster triage, and enhanced maintainability of templates. Technologies/skills demonstrated include YAML templating, fuzzing pipelines, vulnerability extraction, and linting/readability practices.

November 2024

11 Commits • 4 Features

Nov 1, 2024

2024-11 monthly summary for projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates: Delivered four new Nuclei templates to detect high-severity CVEs, expanded OAST/interactsh-enabled detection, and improved maintainability across templates. Implemented YAML-based templates with robust detection logic for remote code execution and SSRF, including core-specific probing and out-of-band payloads. Added Python-based JMX interaction for Tomcat RCE, enhanced session handling and CSRF token extraction for OsTicket SSRF, and cleaned up code quality with lint fixes and trailing-space removals. Commits reflect creation of new YAMLs and subsequent updates to improve reliability and testability.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness93.8%
Maintainability93.0%
Architecture91.8%
Performance91.0%
AI Usage22.2%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

JavaScriptPythonYAMLpythonyaml

Technical Skills

CVE managementCode FormattingCode HygieneConfiguration ManagementDevOpsExploit DevelopmentJavaScriptLintingNucleiPenetration TestingPython ScriptingPython scriptingSecurity AuditingSecurity ResearchSecurity Testing

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates

Nov 2024 Dec 2025
4 Months active

Languages Used

PythonYAMLpythonyamlJavaScript

Technical Skills

Code FormattingCode HygieneExploit DevelopmentLintingPenetration TestingPython Scripting