CLI tool to search for exploits on exploit-db
```
# update the database first as exploits are stored offline in /usr/share/exploitdb/exploits
searchsploit -u
# basic syntax to search on searchsploit <keywords>
searchsploit vsftpd 2.3.4
# -x <id without file extension> view the content of the script, always check what the script is doing!
# -m <id without file extension> to copy the script to the current directory
searchsploit -m <id without file extension>
```
Many scripts on searchsploit are ruby or Python
```
ruby <script.rb> <target IP> # ruby
python3 <script.py> <target IP> # python
bash <script.sh> <target IP> # bash
pl <script.pl> <target IP> # perl
```
Scripts can be quite intrusive and can crash the target computer, just restart the machine. Try to use less intrusive methods before using these scripts.