Merged dev

.gitignore

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
-cmd/nuclei/nuclei*
-v2/cmd/nuclei/nuclei
 .idea
-integration_tests/integration-test
 integration_tests/nuclei
-v2/cmd/integration-test/integration-test
+integration_tests/integration-test
-bin
+v2/cmd/nuclei/main
-v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/Deserialize.class
+v2/cmd/nuclei/nuclei
-v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/ValueObject.class
+v2/cmd/integration-test/nuclei
-v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/ValueObject2.ser
 v2/cmd/functional-test/nuclei_dev
 v2/cmd/functional-test/nuclei_main
 v2/cmd/functional-test/functional-test
 v2/cmd/docgen/docgen
+v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/Deserialize.class
+v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/ValueObject.class
+v2/pkg/protocols/common/helpers/deserialization/testdata/ValueObject2.ser

.golangci.yml

@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-linters-settings:
-  dupl:
-    threshold: 100
-  exhaustive:
-    default-signifies-exhaustive: false
-  # funlen:
-  #   lines: 100
-  #   statements: 50
-  #goconst:
-  #  min-len: 2
-  #  min-occurrences: 2
-  gocritic:
-    enabled-tags:
-      - diagnostic
-      - experimental
-      - opinionated
-      - performance
-      - style
-    disabled-checks:
-      - dupImport # https://github.com/go-critic/go-critic/issues/845
-      - ifElseChain
-  # gocyclo:
-  #   min-complexity: 15
-  goimports:
-    local-prefixes: github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
-  golint:
-    min-confidence: 0
-  gomnd:
-    settings:
-      mnd:
-        # don't include the "operation" and "assign"
-        checks: argument,case,condition,return
-  govet:
-    check-shadowing: true
-    settings:
-      printf:
-        funcs:
-          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Infof
-          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Warnf
-          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Errorf
-          - (github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/logutils.Log).Fatalf
-  # lll:
-  #   line-length: 140
-  maligned:
-    suggest-new: true
-  misspell:
-    locale: US
-  nolintlint:
-    allow-leading-space: true # don't require machine-readable nolint directives (i.e. with no leading space)
-    allow-unused: false # report any unused nolint directives
-    require-explanation: false # don't require an explanation for nolint directives
-    require-specific: false # don't require nolint directives to be specific about which linter is being skipped
-
-linters:
-  # please, do not use `enable-all`: it's deprecated and will be removed soon.
-  # inverted configuration with `enable-all` and `disable` is not scalable during updates of golangci-lint
-  disable-all: true
-  enable:
-    #- bodyclose
-    - deadcode
-    - dogsled
-    - errcheck
-    - exhaustive
-    - gochecknoinits
-    #- goconst
-    - gocritic
-    - gofmt
-    - goimports
-    #- gomnd
-    - goprintffuncname
-    - gosimple
-    - govet
-    - ineffassign
-    - interfacer
-    - maligned
-    - misspell
-    - nakedret
-    - noctx
-    - nolintlint
-    - rowserrcheck
-    - scopelint
-    - staticcheck
-    - structcheck
-    - stylecheck
-    - typecheck
-    - unconvert
-    - unparam
-    - unused
-    - varcheck
-    - whitespace
-    - revive
-
-  # don't enable:
-  # - depguard
-  # - asciicheck
-  # - funlen
-  # - gochecknoglobals
-  # - gocognit
-  # - gocyclo
-  # - godot
-  # - godox
-  # - goerr113
-  # - gosec
-  # - lll
-  # - nestif
-  # - prealloc
-  # - testpackage
-  # - wsl

Dockerfile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM golang:1.16.6-alpine as build-env
+FROM golang:1.16.7-alpine as build-env
 RUN GO111MODULE=on go get -v github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/cmd/nuclei
 
 FROM alpine:latest

README.md

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Usage:
 
 Flags:
 TARGET:
-   -u, -target string  target URL/host to scan
+   -u, -target string[]  target URLs/hosts to scan
    -l, -list string      path to file containing a list of target URLs/hosts to scan (one per line)
 
 TEMPLATES:
@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ CONFIGURATIONS:
    -config string              path to the nuclei configuration file
    -rc, -report-config string  nuclei reporting module configuration file
    -H, -header string[]        custom headers in header:value format
+   -V, -var value              custom vars in var=value format
    -r, -resolvers string       file containing resolver list for nuclei
    -system-resolvers           use system DNS resolving as error fallback
    -passive                    enable passive HTTP response processing mode
+   -env-vars                   Enable environment variables support
 
 INTERACTSH:
    -no-interactsh                     do not use interactsh server for blind interaction polling
@@ -132,6 +134,7 @@ INTERACTSH:
 
 RATE-LIMIT:
    -rl, -rate-limit int          maximum number of requests to send per second (default 150)
+   -rlm, -rate-limit-minute int  maximum number of requests to send per minute
    -bs, -bulk-size int           maximum number of hosts to be analyzed in parallel per template (default 25)
    -c, -concurrency int          maximum number of templates to be executed in parallel (default 10)
 
@@ -160,6 +163,7 @@ DEBUG:
 UPDATE:
    -update                        update nuclei to the latest released version
    -ut, -update-templates         update the community templates to latest released version
+   -nut, -no-update-templates     Do not check for nuclei-templates updates
    -ud, -update-directory string  overwrite the default nuclei-templates directory (default "$HOME/nuclei-templates")
 
 STATISTICS:

README_CN.md

@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ nuclei -h
 |burp-collaborator-biid|使用burp-collaborator插件|nuclei -burp-collaborator-biid XXXX|
 |c|并行的最大模板数量(默认10)|nuclei -c 10|
 |l|对URL列表进行测试|nuclei -l urls.txt|
-|target|对目标进行测试|nuclei -target hxxps://example.com|
+|target|对目标进行测试|nuclei -target hxxps://example.com -target hxxps://example2.com|
 |t|要检测的模板种类|nuclei -t git-core.yaml -t cves/|
 |no-color|输出不显示颜色|nuclei -no-color|
 |no-meta|不显示匹配的元数据|nuclei -no-meta|

integration_tests/run.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+rm integration-test nuclei 2>/dev/null
 cd ../v2/cmd/nuclei
 go build
 mv nuclei ../../../integration_tests/nuclei 

v2/cmd/nuclei/main.go

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/runner"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
 )
 
@@ -41,9 +43,13 @@ func readConfig() {
 	flagSet.SetDescription(`Nuclei is a fast, template based vulnerability scanner focusing
 on extensive configurability, massive extensibility and ease of use.`)
 
+	/* TODO Important: The defined default values, especially for slice/array types are NOT DEFAULT VALUES, but rather implicit values to which the user input is appended.
+	This can be very confusing and should be addressed
+	*/
+
 	createGroup(flagSet, "input", "Target",
-		flagSet.StringVarP(&options.Target, "target", "u", "", "target URL/host to scan"),
+		flagSet.StringSliceVarP(&options.Targets, "target", "u", []string{}, "target URLs/hosts to scan"),
-		flagSet.StringVarP(&options.Targets, "list", "l", "", "path to file containing a list of target URLs/hosts to scan (one per line)"),
+		flagSet.StringVarP(&options.TargetsFilePath, "list", "l", "", "path to file containing a list of target URLs/hosts to scan (one per line)"),
 	)
 
 	createGroup(flagSet, "templates", "Templates",
@@ -64,7 +70,7 @@ on extensive configurability, massive extensibility and ease of use.`)
 		flagSet.StringSliceVar(&options.IncludeTemplates, "include-templates", []string{}, "templates to be executed even if they are excluded either by default or configuration"),
 		flagSet.StringSliceVarP(&options.ExcludedTemplates, "exclude", "exclude-templates", []string{}, "template or template directory paths to exclude"),
 
-		flagSet.NormalizedStringSliceVarP(&options.Severity, "impact", "severity", []string{}, "execute templates that match the provided severities only"),
+		flagSet.VarP(&options.Severities, "impact", "severity", fmt.Sprintf("Templates to run based on severity. Possible values: %s", severity.GetSupportedSeverities().String())),
 		flagSet.NormalizedStringSliceVar(&options.Author, "author", []string{}, "execute templates that are (co-)created by the specified authors"),
 	)
 
@@ -92,9 +98,12 @@ on extensive configurability, massive extensibility and ease of use.`)
 
 		flagSet.StringSliceVarP(&options.CustomHeaders, "header", "H", []string{}, "custom headers in header:value format"),
 
+		flagSet.RuntimeMapVarP(&options.Vars, "var", "V", []string{}, "custom vars in var=value format"),
+
 		flagSet.StringVarP(&options.ResolversFile, "resolvers", "r", "", "file containing resolver list for nuclei"),
 		flagSet.BoolVar(&options.SystemResolvers, "system-resolvers", false, "use system DNS resolving as error fallback"),
 		flagSet.BoolVar(&options.OfflineHTTP, "passive", false, "enable passive HTTP response processing mode"),
+		flagSet.BoolVar(&options.EnvironmentVariables, "env-vars", false, "Enable environment variables support"),
 	)
 
 	createGroup(flagSet, "interactsh", "interactsh",
@@ -117,6 +126,7 @@ on extensive configurability, massive extensibility and ease of use.`)
 	createGroup(flagSet, "optimization", "Optimizations",
 		flagSet.IntVar(&options.Timeout, "timeout", 5, "time to wait in seconds before timeout"),
 		flagSet.IntVar(&options.Retries, "retries", 1, "number of times to retry a failed request"),
+		flagSet.IntVar(&options.HostMaxErrors, "host-max-error", 30, "max errors for a host before skipping from scan"),
 
 		flagSet.BoolVar(&options.Project, "project", false, "use a project folder to avoid sending same request multiple times"),
 		flagSet.StringVar(&options.ProjectPath, "project-path", os.TempDir(), "set a specific project path"),

v2/go.mod

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ go 1.15
 require (
 	github.com/Knetic/govaluate v3.0.0+incompatible
 	github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira v1.13.0
+	github.com/antchfx/htmlquery v1.2.3
 	github.com/apex/log v1.9.0
 	github.com/blang/semver v3.5.1+incompatible
+	github.com/bluele/gcache v0.0.2 // indirect
 	github.com/c4milo/unpackit v0.1.0 // indirect
 	github.com/corpix/uarand v0.1.1
 	github.com/fatih/structs v1.1.0 // indirect
@@ -17,31 +19,36 @@ require (
 	github.com/gosuri/uiprogress v0.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp v0.5.2 // indirect
 	github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.6.8 // indirect
-	github.com/itchyny/gojq v0.12.4
 	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.10
+	github.com/itchyny/gojq v0.12.4
+	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.11
 	github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter v1.3.0
 	github.com/karlseguin/ccache v2.0.3+incompatible
 	github.com/karrick/godirwalk v1.16.1
 	github.com/logrusorgru/aurora v2.0.3+incompatible
 	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.10 // indirect
-	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.38
+	github.com/miekg/dns v1.1.43
 	github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.5
 	github.com/owenrumney/go-sarif v1.0.4
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/clistats v0.0.8
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/fastdialer v0.0.8
-	github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags v0.0.6
+	github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags v0.0.7
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger v1.1.4
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/hmap v0.0.1
-	github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh v0.0.3
+	github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh v0.0.4
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/rawhttp v0.0.7
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/retryabledns v1.0.10
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/retryablehttp-go v1.0.2-0.20210524224054-9fbe1f2b0727
+<<<<<<< HEAD
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/stringsutil v0.0.0-20210617141317-00728870f68d
 	github.com/projectdiscovery/yamldoc-go v1.0.1 // indirect
+=======
+	github.com/projectdiscovery/stringsutil v0.0.0-20210804142656-fd3c28dbaafe
+>>>>>>> 37eaadefeaec7c24eb38a0c70888f832f41334ef
 	github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup v1.0.0
 	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0 // indirect
-	github.com/rs/xid v1.2.1
+	github.com/rs/xid v1.3.0
 	github.com/segmentio/ksuid v1.0.3
 	github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 v3.21.5
 	github.com/spaolacci/murmur3 v1.1.0
@@ -55,10 +62,8 @@ require (
 	go.uber.org/atomic v1.7.0
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.6.0
 	go.uber.org/ratelimit v0.2.0
-	golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20210218145215-b8e89b74b9df // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210614182718-04defd469f4e
-	golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20210521195947-fe42d452be8f
 	golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.0.0-20210218202405-ba52d332ba99
-	golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20201020160332-67f06af15bc9 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/time v0.0.0-20201208040808-7e3f01d25324 // indirect
 	google.golang.org/appengine v1.6.7 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.4.0

v2/go.sum

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.6.0/go.mod h1:N7U0C8pVQ/+NIKOBQyamJIeKQKkZ+mxpohl
 cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.8.0/go.mod h1:Wv1Oy7z6Yz3DshWRJFhqM/UCfaWIRTdp0RXyy7KQOVs=
 cloud.google.com/go/storage v1.10.0/go.mod h1:FLPqc6j+Ki4BU591ie1oL6qBQGu2Bl/tZ9ullr3+Kg0=
 dmitri.shuralyov.com/gpu/mtl v0.0.0-20190408044501-666a987793e9/go.mod h1:H6x//7gZCb22OMCxBHrMx7a5I7Hp++hsVxbQ4BYO7hU=
+git.mills.io/prologic/smtpd v0.0.0-20210710122116-a525b76c287a h1:3i+FJ7IpSZHL+VAjtpQeZCRhrpP0odl5XfoLBY4fxJ8=
+git.mills.io/prologic/smtpd v0.0.0-20210710122116-a525b76c287a/go.mod h1:C7hXLmFmPYPjIDGfQl1clsmQ5TMEQfmzWTrJk475bUs=
 github.com/BurntSushi/toml v0.3.1/go.mod h1:xHWCNGjB5oqiDr8zfno3MHue2Ht5sIBksp03qcyfWMU=
 github.com/BurntSushi/xgb v0.0.0-20160522181843-27f122750802/go.mod h1:IVnqGOEym/WlBOVXweHU+Q+/VP0lqqI8lqeDx9IjBqo=
 github.com/Knetic/govaluate v3.0.0+incompatible h1:7o6+MAPhYTCF0+fdvoz1xDedhRb4f6s9Tn1Tt7/WTEg=
@@ -44,6 +46,10 @@ github.com/andres-erbsen/clock v0.0.0-20160526145045-9e14626cd129 h1:MzBOUgng9or
 github.com/andres-erbsen/clock v0.0.0-20160526145045-9e14626cd129/go.mod h1:rFgpPQZYZ8vdbc+48xibu8ALc3yeyd64IhHS+PU6Yyg=
 github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira v1.13.0 h1:vvIImGgX32bHfoiyUwkNo+/YrPnRczNarvhLOncP6dE=
 github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira v1.13.0/go.mod h1:jYi4kFDbRPZTJdJOVJO4mpMMIwdB+rcZwSO58DzPd2I=
+github.com/antchfx/htmlquery v1.2.3 h1:sP3NFDneHx2stfNXCKbhHFo8XgNjCACnU/4AO5gWz6M=
+github.com/antchfx/htmlquery v1.2.3/go.mod h1:B0ABL+F5irhhMWg54ymEZinzMSi0Kt3I2if0BLYa3V0=
+github.com/antchfx/xpath v1.1.6 h1:6sVh6hB5T6phw1pFpHRQ+C4bd8sNI+O58flqtg7h0R0=
+github.com/antchfx/xpath v1.1.6/go.mod h1:Yee4kTMuNiPYJ7nSNorELQMr1J33uOpXDMByNYhvtNk=
 github.com/apex/log v1.9.0 h1:FHtw/xuaM8AgmvDDTI9fiwoAL25Sq2cxojnZICUU8l0=
 github.com/apex/log v1.9.0/go.mod h1:m82fZlWIuiWzWP04XCTXmnX0xRkYYbCdYn8jbJeLBEA=
 github.com/apex/logs v1.0.0/go.mod h1:XzxuLZ5myVHDy9SAmYpamKKRNApGj54PfYLcFrXqDwo=
@@ -54,6 +60,8 @@ github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.20.6/go.mod h1:KmX6BPdI08NWTb3/sm4ZGu5ShLoqVDhKgpiN
 github.com/aybabtme/rgbterm v0.0.0-20170906152045-cc83f3b3ce59/go.mod h1:q/89r3U2H7sSsE2t6Kca0lfwTK8JdoNGS/yzM/4iH5I=
 github.com/blang/semver v3.5.1+incompatible h1:cQNTCjp13qL8KC3Nbxr/y2Bqb63oX6wdnnjpJbkM4JQ=
 github.com/blang/semver v3.5.1+incompatible/go.mod h1:kRBLl5iJ+tD4TcOOxsy/0fnwebNt5EWlYSAyrTnjyyk=
+github.com/bluele/gcache v0.0.2 h1:WcbfdXICg7G/DGBh1PFfcirkWOQV+v077yF1pSy3DGw=
+github.com/bluele/gcache v0.0.2/go.mod h1:m15KV+ECjptwSPxKhOhQoAFQVtUFjTVkc3H8o0t/fp0=
 github.com/bradfitz/iter v0.0.0-20191230175014-e8f45d346db8 h1:GKTyiRCL6zVf5wWaqKnf+7Qs6GbEPfd4iMOitWzXJx8=
 github.com/bradfitz/iter v0.0.0-20191230175014-e8f45d346db8/go.mod h1:spo1JLcs67NmW1aVLEgtA8Yy1elc+X8y5SRW1sFW4Og=
 github.com/c4milo/unpackit v0.1.0 h1:91pWJ6B3svZ4LOE+p3rnyucRK5fZwBdF/yQ/pcZO31I=
@@ -109,6 +117,7 @@ github.com/go-rod/rod v0.91.1/go.mod h1:/W4lcZiCALPD603MnJGIvhtywP3R6yRB9EDfFfsH
 github.com/golang/glog v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b/go.mod h1:SBH7ygxi8pfUlaOkMMuAQtPIUF8ecWP5IEl/CR7VP2Q=
 github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20190702054246-869f871628b6/go.mod h1:cIg4eruTrX1D+g88fzRXU5OdNfaM+9IcxsU14FzY7Hc=
 github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20191227052852-215e87163ea7/go.mod h1:cIg4eruTrX1D+g88fzRXU5OdNfaM+9IcxsU14FzY7Hc=
+github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20200121045136-8c9f03a8e57e h1:1r7pUrabqp18hOBcwBwiTsbnFeTZHV9eER/QT5JVZxY=
 github.com/golang/groupcache v0.0.0-20200121045136-8c9f03a8e57e/go.mod h1:cIg4eruTrX1D+g88fzRXU5OdNfaM+9IcxsU14FzY7Hc=
 github.com/golang/mock v1.1.1/go.mod h1:oTYuIxOrZwtPieC+H1uAHpcLFnEyAGVDL/k47Jfbm0A=
 github.com/golang/mock v1.2.0/go.mod h1:oTYuIxOrZwtPieC+H1uAHpcLFnEyAGVDL/k47Jfbm0A=
@@ -182,6 +191,8 @@ github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.6.8 h1:92lWxgpa+fF3FozM4B3UZtHZMJX8T5XT
 github.com/hashicorp/go-retryablehttp v0.6.8/go.mod h1:vAew36LZh98gCBJNLH42IQ1ER/9wtLZZ8meHqQvEYWY=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.0/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
 github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.1/go.mod h1:/m3WP610KZHVQ1SGc6re/UDhFvYD7pJ4Ao+sR/qLZy8=
+github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4 h1:YDjusn29QI/Das2iO9M0BHnIbxPeyuCHsjMW+lJfyTc=
+github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru v0.5.4/go.mod h1:iADmTwqILo4mZ8BN3D2Q6+9jd8WM5uGBxy+E8yxSoD4=
 github.com/hooklift/assert v0.1.0 h1:UZzFxx5dSb9aBtvMHTtnPuvFnBvcEhHTPb9+0+jpEjs=
 github.com/hooklift/assert v0.1.0/go.mod h1:pfexfvIHnKCdjh6CkkIZv5ic6dQ6aU2jhKghBlXuwwY=
 github.com/hpcloud/tail v1.0.0 h1:nfCOvKYfkgYP8hkirhJocXT2+zOD8yUNjXaWfTlyFKI=
@@ -196,16 +207,17 @@ github.com/jasonlvhit/gocron v0.0.1 h1:qTt5qF3b3srDjeOIR4Le1LfeyvoYzJlYpqvG7tJX5
 github.com/jasonlvhit/gocron v0.0.1/go.mod h1:k9a3TV8VcU73XZxfVHCHWMWF9SOqgoku0/QlY2yvlA4=
 github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath v0.0.0-20180206201540-c2b33e8439af/go.mod h1:Nht3zPeWKUH0NzdCt2Blrr5ys8VGpn0CEB0cQHVjt7k=
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v2/internal/colorizer/colorizer.go

@@ -1,24 +1,40 @@
 package colorizer
 
-import "github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
+import (
+	"fmt"
 
-// Colorizer returns a colorized severity printer
+	"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
-type Colorizer struct {
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
-	Data map[string]string
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
-}
+)
 
 const (
 	fgOrange uint8 = 208
 )
 
-// New returns a new severity based colorizer
+func GetColor(colorizer aurora.Aurora, templateSeverity fmt.Stringer) string {
-func New(colorizer aurora.Aurora) *Colorizer {
+	var method func(arg interface{}) aurora.Value
-	severityMap := map[string]string{
+	switch templateSeverity {
-		"info":     colorizer.Blue("info").String(),
+	case severity.Info:
-		"low":      colorizer.Green("low").String(),
+		method = colorizer.Blue
-		"medium":   colorizer.Yellow("medium").String(),
+	case severity.Low:
-		"high":     colorizer.Index(fgOrange, "high").String(),
+		method = colorizer.Green
-		"critical": colorizer.Red("critical").String(),
+	case severity.Medium:
+		method = colorizer.Yellow
+	case severity.High:
+		method = func(stringValue interface{}) aurora.Value { return colorizer.Index(fgOrange, stringValue) }
+	case severity.Critical:
+		method = colorizer.Red
+	default:
+		gologger.Warning().Msgf("The '%s' severity does not have an color associated!", templateSeverity)
+		method = colorizer.White
+	}
+
+	return method(templateSeverity.String()).String()
+}
+
+func New(colorizer aurora.Aurora) func(severity.Severity) string {
+	return func(severity severity.Severity) string {
+		return GetColor(colorizer, severity)
 	}
-	return &Colorizer{Data: severityMap}
 }

v2/internal/runner/config.go

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-package runner

v2/internal/runner/processor.go

@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ func (r *Runner) processTemplateWithList(template *templates.Template) bool {
 	r.hostMap.Scan(func(k, _ []byte) error {
 		URL := string(k)
 
+		// Skip if the host has had errors
+		if r.hostErrors != nil && r.hostErrors.Check(URL) {
+			return nil
+		}
 		wg.Add()
 		go func(URL string) {
 			defer wg.Done()
@@ -37,6 +41,11 @@ func (r *Runner) processWorkflowWithList(template *templates.Template) bool {
 
 	r.hostMap.Scan(func(k, _ []byte) error {
 		URL := string(k)
+
+		// Skip if the host has had errors
+		if r.hostErrors != nil && r.hostErrors.Check(URL) {
+			return nil
+		}
 		wg.Add()
 		go func(URL string) {
 			defer wg.Done()

v2/internal/runner/runner.go

@@ -10,17 +10,26 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup"
+	"github.com/rs/xid"
+	"go.uber.org/atomic"
+	"go.uber.org/ratelimit"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/hmap/store/hybrid"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/colorizer"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/config"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/parsers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/progress"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/projectfile"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/clusterer"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/hosterrorscache"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/interactsh"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/protocolinit"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/headless/engine"
@@ -29,11 +38,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/exporters/sarif"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/templates"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
-	"github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
-	"github.com/rs/xid"
-	"go.uber.org/atomic"
-	"go.uber.org/ratelimit"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
 // Runner is a client for running the enumeration process.
@@ -49,9 +54,10 @@ type Runner struct {
 	progress        progress.Progress
 	colorizer       aurora.Aurora
 	issuesClient    *reporting.Client
-	severityColors  *colorizer.Colorizer
+	addColor        func(severity.Severity) string
 	browser         *engine.Browser
 	ratelimiter     ratelimit.Limiter
+	hostErrors      *hosterrorscache.Cache
 }
 
 // New creates a new client for running enumeration process.
@@ -118,14 +124,14 @@ func New(options *types.Options) (*Runner, error) {
 	// output coloring
 	useColor := !options.NoColor
 	runner.colorizer = aurora.NewAurora(useColor)
-	runner.severityColors = colorizer.New(runner.colorizer)
+	runner.addColor = colorizer.New(runner.colorizer)
 
 	if options.TemplateList {
 		runner.listAvailableTemplates()
 		os.Exit(0)
 	}
 
-	if (len(options.Templates) == 0 || !options.NewTemplates || (options.Targets == "" && !options.Stdin && options.Target == "")) && options.UpdateTemplates {
+	if (len(options.Templates) == 0 || !options.NewTemplates || (options.TargetsFilePath == "" && !options.Stdin && len(options.Targets) == 0)) && options.UpdateTemplates {
 		os.Exit(0)
 	}
 	hm, err := hybrid.New(hybrid.DefaultDiskOptions)
@@ -137,11 +143,23 @@ func New(options *types.Options) (*Runner, error) {
 	runner.inputCount = 0
 	dupeCount := 0
 
-	// Handle single target
+	// Handle multiple targets
-	if options.Target != "" {
+	if len(options.Targets) != 0 {
+		for _, target := range options.Targets {
+			url := strings.TrimSpace(target)
+			if url == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+
+			if _, ok := runner.hostMap.Get(url); ok {
+				dupeCount++
+				continue
+			}
+
 			runner.inputCount++
 			// nolint:errcheck // ignoring error
-		runner.hostMap.Set(options.Target, nil)
+			runner.hostMap.Set(url, nil)
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Handle stdin
@@ -152,19 +170,21 @@ func New(options *types.Options) (*Runner, error) {
 			if url == "" {
 				continue
 			}
+
 			if _, ok := runner.hostMap.Get(url); ok {
 				dupeCount++
 				continue
 			}
+
 			runner.inputCount++
 			// nolint:errcheck // ignoring error
 			runner.hostMap.Set(url, nil)
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Handle taget file
+	// Handle target file
-	if options.Targets != "" {
+	if options.TargetsFilePath != "" {
-		input, inputErr := os.Open(options.Targets)
+		input, inputErr := os.Open(options.TargetsFilePath)
 		if inputErr != nil {
 			return nil, errors.Wrap(inputErr, "could not open targets file")
 		}
@@ -212,7 +232,7 @@ func New(options *types.Options) (*Runner, error) {
 	// create project file if requested or load existing one
 	if options.Project {
 		var projectFileErr error
-		runner.projectFile, projectFileErr = projectfile.New(&projectfile.Options{Path: options.ProjectPath, Cleanup: options.ProjectPath == ""})
+		runner.projectFile, projectFileErr = projectfile.New(&projectfile.Options{Path: options.ProjectPath, Cleanup: utils.IsBlank(options.ProjectPath)})
 		if projectFileErr != nil {
 			return nil, projectFileErr
 		}
@@ -275,6 +295,11 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 	r.options.ExcludeTags = append(r.options.ExcludeTags, ignoreFile.Tags...)
 	r.options.ExcludedTemplates = append(r.options.ExcludedTemplates, ignoreFile.Files...)
 
+	var cache *hosterrorscache.Cache
+	if r.options.HostMaxErrors > 0 {
+		cache = hosterrorscache.New(r.options.HostMaxErrors, hosterrorscache.DefaultMaxHostsCount).SetVerbose(r.options.Verbose)
+	}
+	r.hostErrors = cache
 	executerOpts := protocols.ExecuterOptions{
 		Output:          r.output,
 		Options:         r.options,
@@ -285,7 +310,16 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 		Interactsh:      r.interactsh,
 		ProjectFile:     r.projectFile,
 		Browser:         r.browser,
+		HostErrorsCache: cache,
 	}
+
+	workflowLoader, err := parsers.NewLoader(&executerOpts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(err, "Could not create loader.")
+	}
+
+	executerOpts.WorkflowLoader = workflowLoader
+
 	loaderConfig := loader.Config{
 		Templates:          r.options.Templates,
 		Workflows:          r.options.Workflows,
@@ -294,7 +328,7 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 		ExcludeTags:        r.options.ExcludeTags,
 		IncludeTemplates:   r.options.IncludeTemplates,
 		Authors:            r.options.Author,
-		Severities:         r.options.Severity,
+		Severities:         r.options.Severities,
 		IncludeTags:        r.options.IncludeTags,
 		TemplatesDirectory: r.options.TemplatesDirectory,
 		Catalog:            r.catalog,
@@ -331,7 +365,7 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 
 	gologger.Info().Msgf("Using Nuclei Engine %s%s", config.Version, messageStr)
 
-	if r.templatesConfig != nil && r.templatesConfig.NucleiTemplatesLatestVersion != "" {
+	if r.templatesConfig != nil && r.templatesConfig.NucleiTemplatesLatestVersion != "" { // TODO extract duplicated logic
 		builder.WriteString(" (")
 
 		if r.templatesConfig.CurrentVersion == r.templatesConfig.NucleiTemplatesLatestVersion {
@@ -362,7 +396,7 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 	var unclusteredRequests int64
 	for _, template := range store.Templates() {
 		// workflows will dynamically adjust the totals while running, as
-		// it can't be know in advance which requests will be called
+		// it can't be known in advance which requests will be called
 		if len(template.Workflows) > 0 {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -396,6 +430,7 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 				Browser:         r.browser,
 				ProjectFile:     r.projectFile,
 				Interactsh:      r.interactsh,
+				HostErrorsCache: cache,
 			}
 			clusterID := fmt.Sprintf("cluster-%s", xid.New().String())
 
@@ -430,6 +465,11 @@ func (r *Runner) RunEnumeration() error {
 		return errors.New("no templates were found")
 	}
 
+	/*
+		TODO does it make sense to run the logic below if there are no targets specified?
+		Can we safely assume the user is just experimenting with the template/workflow filters before running them?
+	*/
+
 	results := &atomic.Bool{}
 	wgtemplates := sizedwaitgroup.New(r.options.TemplateThreads)
 

v2/internal/runner/templates.go

@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/karrick/godirwalk"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/templates"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
 // parseTemplateFile returns the parsed template file
@@ -35,16 +37,13 @@ func (r *Runner) parseTemplateFile(file string) (*templates.Template, error) {
 	return template, nil
 }
 
-func (r *Runner) templateLogMsg(id, name, author, severity string) string {
+func (r *Runner) templateLogMsg(id, name, author string, templateSeverity severity.Severity) string {
 	// Display the message for the template
-	message := fmt.Sprintf("[%s] %s (%s)",
+	return fmt.Sprintf("[%s] %s (%s) [%s]",
 		r.colorizer.BrightBlue(id).String(),
 		r.colorizer.Bold(name).String(),
-		r.colorizer.BrightYellow(appendAtSignToAuthors(author)).String())
+		r.colorizer.BrightYellow(appendAtSignToAuthors(author)).String(),
-	if severity != "" {
+		r.addColor(templateSeverity))
-		message += " [" + r.severityColors.Data[severity] + "]"
-	}
-	return message
 }
 
 // appendAtSignToAuthors appends @ before each author and returns final string
@@ -75,7 +74,10 @@ func (r *Runner) logAvailableTemplate(tplPath string) {
 	if err != nil {
 		gologger.Error().Msgf("Could not parse file '%s': %s\n", tplPath, err)
 	} else {
-		gologger.Info().Msgf("%s\n", r.templateLogMsg(t.ID, types.ToString(t.Info["name"]), types.ToString(t.Info["author"]), types.ToString(t.Info["severity"])))
+		gologger.Print().Msgf("%s\n", r.templateLogMsg(t.ID,
+			types.ToString(t.Info.Name),
+			types.ToString(t.Info.Authors),
+			t.Info.SeverityHolder.Severity))
 	}
 }
 

v2/internal/severity/misc.go

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package severity
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+type Severities []Severity
+
+func (severities Severities) String() string {
+	return strings.Join(severities.ToStringArray(), ", ")
+}
+
+func (severities *Severities) Set(value string) error {
+	inputSeverities := toStringSlice(value)
+
+	for _, inputSeverity := range inputSeverities {
+		if err := setSeverity(severities, inputSeverity); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+func setSeverity(severities *Severities, value string) error {
+	computedSeverity, err := toSeverity(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("'%s' is not a valid severity", value)
+	}
+
+	// TODO change the Severities type to map[Severity]interface{}, where the values are struct{}{}, to "simulates" a "set" data structure
+	*severities = append(*severities, computedSeverity)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (severities *Severities) ToStringArray() []string {
+	var result []string
+	for _, severity := range *severities {
+		result = append(result, severity.String())
+	}
+	return result
+}
+
+func toStringSlice(value string) []string {
+	var result []string
+	if strings.Contains(value, ",") {
+		slices := strings.Split(value, ",")
+		result = append(result, slices...)
+	} else {
+		result = []string{value}
+	}
+	return result
+}

v2/internal/severity/severity.go

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package severity
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+)
+
+type Severity int
+
+const (
+	Info Severity = iota
+	Low
+	Medium
+	High
+	Critical
+	limit
+)
+
+var severityMappings = map[Severity]string{
+	Info:     "info",
+	Low:      "low",
+	Medium:   "medium",
+	High:     "high",
+	Critical: "critical",
+}
+
+func toSeverity(valueToMap string) (Severity, error) {
+	normalizedValue := normalizeValue(valueToMap)
+	for key, currentValue := range severityMappings {
+		if normalizedValue == currentValue {
+			return key, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return -1, errors.New("Invalid severity: " + valueToMap)
+}
+
+func GetSupportedSeverities() Severities {
+	var result []Severity
+	for index := Severity(0); index < limit; index++ {
+		result = append(result, index)
+	}
+	return result
+}
+
+func normalizeValue(value string) string {
+	return strings.TrimSpace(strings.ToLower(value))
+}
+
+func (severity Severity) String() string {
+	return severityMappings[severity]
+}
+
+//nolint:exported,revive //prefer to be explicit about the name, and make it refactor-safe
+//goland:noinspection GoNameStartsWithPackageName
+type SeverityHolder struct {
+	Severity Severity
+}
+
+func (severityHolder *SeverityHolder) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
+	var marshalledSeverity string
+	if err := unmarshal(&marshalledSeverity); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	computedSeverity, err := toSeverity(marshalledSeverity)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	severityHolder.Severity = computedSeverity
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (severityHolder *SeverityHolder) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return json.Marshal(severityHolder.Severity.String())
+}

v2/internal/severity/severity_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package severity
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestYamlUnmarshal(t *testing.T) {
+	testUnmarshal(t, yaml.Unmarshal, func(value string) string { return value })
+}
+
+func TestYamlUnmarshalFail(t *testing.T) {
+	testUnmarshalFail(t, yaml.Unmarshal, createYAML)
+}
+
+func testUnmarshal(t *testing.T, unmarshaller func(data []byte, v interface{}) error, payloadCreator func(value string) string) {
+	payloads := [...]string{
+		payloadCreator("Info"),
+		payloadCreator("info"),
+		payloadCreator("inFo "),
+		payloadCreator("infO "),
+		payloadCreator(" INFO "),
+	}
+
+	for _, payload := range payloads { // nolint:scopelint // false-positive
+		t.Run(payload, func(t *testing.T) {
+			result := unmarshal(payload, unmarshaller)
+			assert.Equal(t, result.Severity, Info)
+			assert.Equal(t, result.Severity.String(), "info")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func testUnmarshalFail(t *testing.T, unmarshaller func(data []byte, v interface{}) error, payloadCreator func(value string) string) {
+	assert.Panics(t, func() { unmarshal(payloadCreator("invalid"), unmarshaller) })
+}
+
+func unmarshal(value string, unmarshaller func(data []byte, v interface{}) error) SeverityHolder {
+	severityStruct := SeverityHolder{}
+	var err = unmarshaller([]byte(value), &severityStruct)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return severityStruct
+}
+
+func createYAML(value string) string {
+	return "severity: " + value + "\n"
+}

v2/internal/testutils/testutils.go

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ package testutils
 import (
 	"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger/levels"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/progress"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
@@ -44,9 +46,9 @@ var DefaultOptions = &types.Options{
 	Retries:            1,
 	RateLimit:          150,
 	ProjectPath:        "",
-	Severity:           []string{},
+	Severities:         severity.Severities{},
-	Target:             "",
+	Targets:            []string{},
-	Targets:            "",
+	TargetsFilePath:    "",
 	Output:             "",
 	ProxyURL:           "",
 	ProxySocksURL:      "",
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ func (m *MockOutputWriter) Request(templateID, url, requestType string, err erro
 // TemplateInfo contains info for a mock executed template.
 type TemplateInfo struct {
 	ID   string
-	Info map[string]interface{}
+	Info model.Info
 	Path string
 }
 

v2/pkg/catalog/config/config.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ type Config struct {
 const nucleiConfigFilename = ".templates-config.json"
 
 // Version is the current version of nuclei
-const Version = `2.4.3-dev`
+const Version = `2.4.4-dev`
 
 func getConfigDetails() (string, error) {
 	homeDir, err := os.UserHomeDir()

v2/pkg/catalog/find.go

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ func (c *Catalog) convertPathToAbsolute(t string) (string, error) {
 		if err != nil {
 			return "", err
 		}
-		return path.Join(absPath, file), nil
+		return path.Join(absPath, file), nil // TODO this might rather be filepath.Join to make it OS agnostic. Search for other occurrences
 	}
 	return c.ResolvePath(t, "")
 }

v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter/tag_filter.go

@@ -3,18 +3,20 @@ package filter
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 )
 
 // TagFilter is used to filter nuclei templates for tag based execution
 type TagFilter struct {
 	allowedTags map[string]struct{}
-	severities  map[string]struct{}
+	severities  map[severity.Severity]struct{}
 	authors     map[string]struct{}
 	block       map[string]struct{}
 	matchAllows map[string]struct{}
 }
 
-// ErrExcluded is returned for execluded templates
+// ErrExcluded is returned for excluded templates
 var ErrExcluded = errors.New("the template was excluded")
 
 // Match takes a tag and whether the template was matched from user
@@ -25,92 +27,102 @@ var ErrExcluded = errors.New("the template was excluded")
 // matchAllows section.
 //
 // It returns true if the tag is specified, or false.
-func (t *TagFilter) Match(tag, author, severity string) (bool, error) {
+func (tagFilter *TagFilter) Match(templateTags, templateAuthors []string, templateSeverity severity.Severity) (bool, error) {
-	matchedAny := false
+	for _, templateTag := range templateTags {
-	if len(t.allowedTags) > 0 {
+		_, blocked := tagFilter.block[templateTag]
-		_, ok := t.allowedTags[tag]
+		_, allowed := tagFilter.matchAllows[templateTag]
-		if ok {
+
-			matchedAny = true
+		if blocked && !allowed { // the whitelist has precedence over the blacklist
-		}
-	}
-	_, ok := t.block[tag]
-	if ok {
-		if _, allowOk := t.matchAllows[tag]; allowOk {
-			return true, nil
-		}
 			return false, ErrExcluded
 		}
-	if len(t.authors) > 0 {
+	}
-		_, ok = t.authors[author]
+
-		if !ok {
+	if !isTagMatch(templateTags, tagFilter) {
 		return false, nil
 	}
-		matchedAny = true
+
-	}
+	if !isAuthorMatch(templateAuthors, tagFilter) {
-	if len(t.severities) > 0 {
-		_, ok = t.severities[severity]
-		if !ok {
 		return false, nil
 	}
-		matchedAny = true
+
+	if len(tagFilter.severities) > 0 {
+		if _, ok := tagFilter.severities[templateSeverity]; !ok {
+			return false, nil
 		}
-	if len(t.allowedTags) == 0 && len(t.authors) == 0 && len(t.severities) == 0 {
+	}
+
 	return true, nil
-	}
-	return matchedAny, nil
 }
 
-// MatchWithAllowedTags takes an addition list of allowed tags
+func isAuthorMatch(templateAuthors []string, tagFilter *TagFilter) bool {
-// and returns true if the match was successful.
+	if len(tagFilter.authors) == 0 {
-func (t *TagFilter) MatchWithAllowedTags(allowed []string, tag, author, severity string) (bool, error) {
+		return true
-	matchedAny := false
+	}
 
-	allowedMap := make(map[string]struct{})
+	for _, templateAuthor := range templateAuthors {
-	for _, tag := range allowed {
+		if _, ok := tagFilter.authors[templateAuthor]; ok {
-		for _, val := range splitCommaTrim(tag) {
+			return true
-			if _, ok := allowedMap[val]; !ok {
-				allowedMap[val] = struct{}{}
 		}
 	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+func isTagMatch(templateTags []string, tagFilter *TagFilter) bool {
+	if len(tagFilter.allowedTags) == 0 {
+		return true
 	}
-	if len(allowedMap) > 0 {
+
-		_, ok := allowedMap[tag]
+	for _, templateTag := range templateTags {
-		if ok {
+		if _, ok := tagFilter.allowedTags[templateTag]; ok {
-			matchedAny = true
+			return true
 		}
 	}
-	_, ok := t.block[tag]
+
-	if ok && !matchedAny {
+	return false
-		if _, allowOk := t.matchAllows[tag]; allowOk {
+}
-			return true, nil
+
-		}
+// MatchWithWorkflowTags takes an addition list of allowed tags and returns true if the match was successful.
+func (tagFilter *TagFilter) MatchWithWorkflowTags(templateTags, templateAuthors []string, templateSeverity severity.Severity, workflowTags []string) (bool, error) {
+	for _, templateTag := range templateTags {
+		_, blocked := tagFilter.block[templateTag]
+		_, allowed := tagFilter.matchAllows[templateTag]
+
+		if blocked && !allowed { // the whitelist has precedence over the blacklist
 			return false, ErrExcluded
 		}
-	if len(t.authors) > 0 {
+	}
-		_, ok = t.authors[author]
+
-		if !ok {
+	templatesTagMap := toMap(templateTags)
+	for _, workflowTag := range workflowTags {
+		if _, ok := templatesTagMap[workflowTag]; !ok {
 			return false, nil
 		}
-		matchedAny = true
 	}
-	if len(t.severities) > 0 {
+
-		_, ok = t.severities[severity]
+	if len(tagFilter.authors) > 0 {
-		if !ok {
+		templateAuthorTagMap := toMap(templateAuthors)
+		for requiredAuthor := range tagFilter.authors {
+			if _, ok := templateAuthorTagMap[requiredAuthor]; !ok {
 				return false, nil
 			}
-		matchedAny = true
 		}
-	if len(allowedMap) == 0 && len(t.authors) == 0 && len(t.severities) == 0 {
+	}
+
+	if len(tagFilter.severities) > 0 {
+		if _, ok := tagFilter.severities[templateSeverity]; !ok {
+			return false, nil
+		}
+	}
+
 	return true, nil
-	}
-	return matchedAny, nil
 }
 
 type Config struct {
 	Tags        []string
 	ExcludeTags []string
 	Authors     []string
-	Severities  []string
+	Severities  severity.Severities
 	IncludeTags []string
 }
 
@@ -121,7 +133,7 @@ func New(config *Config) *TagFilter {
 	filter := &TagFilter{
 		allowedTags: make(map[string]struct{}),
 		authors:     make(map[string]struct{}),
-		severities:  make(map[string]struct{}),
+		severities:  make(map[severity.Severity]struct{}),
 		block:       make(map[string]struct{}),
 		matchAllows: make(map[string]struct{}),
 	}
@@ -133,10 +145,8 @@ func New(config *Config) *TagFilter {
 		}
 	}
 	for _, tag := range config.Severities {
-		for _, val := range splitCommaTrim(tag) {
+		if _, ok := filter.severities[tag]; !ok {
-			if _, ok := filter.severities[val]; !ok {
+			filter.severities[tag] = struct{}{}
-				filter.severities[val] = struct{}{}
-			}
 		}
 	}
 	for _, tag := range config.Authors {
@@ -165,6 +175,11 @@ func New(config *Config) *TagFilter {
 	return filter
 }
 
+/*
+TODO similar logic is used over and over again. It should be extracted and reused
+Changing []string and string data types that hold string slices to StringSlice would be the preferred solution,
+which implicitly does the normalization before any other calls starting to use it.
+*/
 func splitCommaTrim(value string) []string {
 	if !strings.Contains(value, ",") {
 		return []string{strings.ToLower(value)}
@@ -176,3 +191,13 @@ func splitCommaTrim(value string) []string {
 	}
 	return final
 }
+
+func toMap(slice []string) map[string]struct{} {
+	result := make(map[string]struct{})
+	for _, value := range slice {
+		if _, ok := result[value]; !ok {
+			result[value] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+	return result
+}

v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter/tag_filter_test.go

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 )
 
 func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
@@ -13,11 +15,11 @@ func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
 	filter := New(config)
 
 	t.Run("true", func(t *testing.T) {
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("jira", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"jira"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 	t.Run("false", func(t *testing.T) {
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("consul", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"consul"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 	t.Run("not-match-excludes", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@ func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
 			ExcludeTags: []string{"dos"},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, err := filter.Match("dos", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, err := filter.Match([]string{"dos"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 		require.Equal(t, ErrExcluded, err, "could not get correct error")
 	})
@@ -36,7 +38,17 @@ func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
 			IncludeTags: []string{"fuzz"},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, err := filter.Match("fuzz", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, err := filter.Match([]string{"fuzz"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
+		require.Nil(t, err, "could not get match")
+		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
+	})
+	t.Run("match-includes", func(t *testing.T) {
+		config := &Config{
+			Tags:        []string{"fuzz"},
+			ExcludeTags: []string{"fuzz"},
+		}
+		filter := New(config)
+		matched, err := filter.Match([]string{"fuzz"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.Nil(t, err, "could not get match")
 		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
@@ -45,15 +57,15 @@ func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
 			Authors: []string{"pdteam"},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("fuzz", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"fuzz"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 	t.Run("match-severity", func(t *testing.T) {
 		config := &Config{
-			Severities: []string{"high"},
+			Severities: severity.Severities{severity.High},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("fuzz", "pdteam", "high")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"fuzz"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.High)
 		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 	t.Run("match-exclude-with-tags", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -62,23 +74,23 @@ func TestTagBasedFilter(t *testing.T) {
 			ExcludeTags: []string{"another"},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("another", "pdteam", "high")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"another"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.High)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 	t.Run("match-conditions", func(t *testing.T) {
 		config := &Config{
 			Authors:    []string{"pdteam"},
 			Tags:       []string{"jira"},
-			Severities: []string{"high"},
+			Severities: severity.Severities{severity.High},
 		}
 		filter := New(config)
-		matched, _ := filter.Match("jira", "pdteam", "high")
+		matched, _ := filter.Match([]string{"jira"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.High)
 		require.True(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
-		matched, _ = filter.Match("jira", "pdteam", "low")
+		matched, _ = filter.Match([]string{"jira"}, []string{"pdteam"}, severity.Low)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
-		matched, _ = filter.Match("jira", "random", "low")
+		matched, _ = filter.Match([]string{"jira"}, []string{"random"}, severity.Low)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
-		matched, _ = filter.Match("consul", "random", "low")
+		matched, _ = filter.Match([]string{"consul"}, []string{"random"}, severity.Low)
 		require.False(t, matched, "could not get correct match")
 	})
 }

v2/pkg/catalog/loader/load/load.go

@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-package load
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"errors"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"os"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
-)
-
-// Load loads a template by parsing metadata and running
-// all tag and path based filters on the template.
-func Load(templatePath string, workflow bool, customTags []string, tagFilter *filter.TagFilter) (bool, error) {
-	f, err := os.Open(templatePath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
-
-	data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-
-	template := make(map[string]interface{})
-	err = yaml.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data)).Decode(template)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-
-	info, ok := template["info"]
-	if !ok {
-		return false, errors.New("no template info field provided")
-	}
-	infoMap, ok := info.(map[interface{}]interface{})
-	if !ok {
-		return false, errors.New("could not get info")
-	}
-
-	if _, nameOk := infoMap["name"]; !nameOk {
-		return false, errors.New("no template name field provided")
-	}
-	author, ok := infoMap["author"]
-	if !ok {
-		return false, errors.New("no template author field provided")
-	}
-	severity, ok := infoMap["severity"]
-	if !ok {
-		severity = ""
-	}
-
-	templateTags, ok := infoMap["tags"]
-	if !ok {
-		templateTags = ""
-	}
-	tagStr := types.ToString(templateTags)
-
-	tags := strings.Split(tagStr, ",")
-	severityStr := strings.ToLower(types.ToString(severity))
-	authors := strings.Split(types.ToString(author), ",")
-
-	matched := false
-
-	_, workflowsFound := template["workflows"]
-	if !workflowsFound && workflow {
-		return false, nil
-	}
-	if workflow {
-		return true, nil
-	}
-	for _, tag := range tags {
-		for _, author := range authors {
-			var match bool
-			var err error
-
-			if len(customTags) == 0 {
-				match, err = tagFilter.Match(strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(tag)), strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(author)), severityStr)
-			} else {
-				match, err = tagFilter.MatchWithAllowedTags(customTags, strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(tag)), strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(author)), severityStr)
-			}
-			if err == filter.ErrExcluded {
-				return false, filter.ErrExcluded
-			}
-			if !matched && match {
-				matched = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !matched {
-		return false, nil
-	}
-	if workflowsFound && !workflow {
-		return false, nil
-	}
-	return true, nil
-}

v2/pkg/catalog/loader/loader.go

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/load"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/parsers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/templates"
 )
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	Tags        []string
 	ExcludeTags []string
 	Authors     []string
-	Severities  []string
+	Severities  severity.Severities
 	IncludeTags []string
 
 	Catalog            *catalog.Catalog
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ func (s *Store) LoadTemplates(templatesList []string) []*templates.Template {
 
 // LoadWorkflows takes a list of workflows and returns paths for them
 func (s *Store) LoadWorkflows(workflowsList []string) []*templates.Template {
-	includedWorkflows := s.config.Catalog.GetTemplatesPath(s.config.Workflows)
+	includedWorkflows := s.config.Catalog.GetTemplatesPath(workflowsList)
 	workflowsMap := s.pathFilter.Match(includedWorkflows)
 
 	loadedWorkflows := make([]*templates.Template, 0, len(workflowsMap))
@@ -197,6 +198,6 @@ func (s *Store) LoadWorkflows(workflowsList []string) []*templates.Template {
 	return loadedWorkflows
 }
 
-func (s *Store) loadTemplate(templatePath string, workflow bool) (bool, error) {
+func (s *Store) loadTemplate(templatePath string, isWorkflow bool) (bool, error) {
-	return load.Load(templatePath, workflow, nil, s.tagFilter)
+	return parsers.Load(templatePath, isWorkflow, nil, s.tagFilter) // TODO consider separating template and workflow loading logic
 }

v2/pkg/model/model.go

@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+package model
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
+)
+
+type Info struct {
+	Name           string                  `json:"name" yaml:"name"`
+	Authors        StringSlice             `json:"author" yaml:"author"`
+	Tags           StringSlice             `json:"tags" yaml:"tags"`
+	Description    string                  `json:"description" yaml:"description"`
+	Reference      StringSlice             `json:"reference" yaml:"reference"`
+	SeverityHolder severity.SeverityHolder `json:"severity" yaml:"severity"`
+}
+
+// StringSlice represents a single (in-lined) or multiple string value(s).
+// The unmarshaller does not automatically convert in-lined strings to []string, hence the interface{} type is required.
+type StringSlice struct {
+	Value interface{}
+}
+
+func (stringSlice *StringSlice) IsEmpty() bool {
+	return len(stringSlice.ToSlice()) == 0
+}
+
+func (stringSlice StringSlice) ToSlice() []string {
+	switch value := stringSlice.Value.(type) {
+	case string:
+		return []string{value}
+	case []string:
+		return value
+	case nil:
+		return []string{}
+	default:
+		panic(fmt.Sprintf("Unexpected StringSlice type: '%T'", value))
+	}
+}
+
+func (stringSlice *StringSlice) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error {
+	marshalledSlice, err := marshalStringToSlice(unmarshal)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	result := make([]string, len(marshalledSlice))
+	//nolint:gosimple,nolintlint //cannot be replaced with result = append(result, slices...) because the values are being normalized
+	for _, value := range marshalledSlice {
+		result = append(result, strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(value))) // TODO do we need to introduce RawStringSlice and/or NormalizedStringSlices?
+	}
+	stringSlice.Value = result
+	return nil
+}
+
+func marshalStringToSlice(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) ([]string, error) {
+	var marshalledValueAsString string
+	var marshalledValuesAsSlice []string
+
+	sliceMarshalError := unmarshal(&marshalledValuesAsSlice)
+	if sliceMarshalError != nil {
+		stringMarshalError := unmarshal(&marshalledValueAsString)
+		if stringMarshalError != nil {
+			return nil, stringMarshalError
+		}
+	}
+
+	var result []string
+	if len(marshalledValuesAsSlice) > 0 {
+		result = marshalledValuesAsSlice
+	} else if utils.IsNotBlank(marshalledValueAsString) {
+		result = strings.Split(marshalledValueAsString, ",")
+	} else {
+		result = []string{}
+	}
+
+	return result, nil
+}
+
+func (stringSlice StringSlice) MarshalYAML() (interface{}, error) {
+	return yaml.Marshal(stringSlice.Value)
+}
+
+func (stringSlice StringSlice) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
+	return json.Marshal(stringSlice.Value)
+}

v2/pkg/model/model_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package model
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+)
+
+func TestInfoJsonMarshal(t *testing.T) {
+	info := Info{
+		Name:           "Test Template Name",
+		Authors:        StringSlice{[]string{"forgedhallpass", "ice3man"}},
+		Description:    "Test description",
+		SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.High},
+		Tags:           StringSlice{[]string{"cve", "misc"}},
+		Reference:      StringSlice{"reference1"},
+	}
+
+	result, err := json.Marshal(&info)
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+
+	expected := `{"name":"Test Template Name","author":["forgedhallpass","ice3man"],"tags":["cve","misc"],"description":"Test description","reference":"reference1","severity":"high"}`
+	assert.Equal(t, expected, string(result))
+}

v2/pkg/model/worflow_loader.go

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+package model
+
+// WorkflowLoader is a loader interface required for workflow initialization.
+type WorkflowLoader interface {
+	// ListTags lists a list of templates for tags from the provided templates directory
+	ListTags(workflowTags []string) []string
+
+	// ListTemplates takes a list of templates and returns paths for them
+	ListTemplates(templatesList []string, noValidate bool) []string
+}

v2/pkg/operators/common/dsl/dsl.go

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		return compiled.ReplaceAllString(types.ToString(args[0]), types.ToString(args[2])), nil
 	},
 	"trim": func(args ...interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
-		return strings.Trim(types.ToString(args[0]), types.ToString(args[2])), nil
+		return strings.Trim(types.ToString(args[0]), types.ToString(args[1])), nil
 	},
 	"trimleft": func(args ...interface{}) (interface{}, error) {
 		return strings.TrimLeft(types.ToString(args[0]), types.ToString(args[1])), nil
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		base := letters + numbers
 
 		if len(args) >= 1 {
-			l = args[0].(int)
+			l = int(args[0].(float64))
 		}
 		if len(args) >= withCutSetArgsSize {
 			bad = types.ToString(args[1])
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		chars := letters + numbers
 
 		if len(args) >= 1 {
-			l = args[0].(int)
+			l = int(args[0].(float64))
 		}
 		if len(args) >= withCutSetArgsSize {
 			bad = types.ToString(args[1])
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		chars := letters
 
 		if len(args) >= 1 {
-			l = args[0].(int)
+			l = int(args[0].(float64))
 		}
 		if len(args) >= withCutSetArgsSize {
 			bad = types.ToString(args[1])
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		chars := numbers
 
 		if len(args) >= 1 {
-			l = args[0].(int)
+			l = int(args[0].(float64))
 		}
 		if len(args) >= withCutSetArgsSize {
 			bad = types.ToString(args[1])
@@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ var functions = map[string]govaluate.ExpressionFunction{
 		max := math.MaxInt32
 
 		if len(args) >= 1 {
-			min = args[0].(int)
+			min = int(args[0].(float64))
 		}
 		if len(args) >= withMaxRandArgsSize {
-			max = args[1].(int)
+			max = int(args[1].(float64))
 		}
 		return rand.Intn(max-min) + min, nil
 	},

v2/pkg/operators/extractors/extract.go

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 package extractors
 
 import (
+	"strings"
+
 	"encoding/json"
 
+	"github.com/antchfx/htmlquery"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
 )
 
@@ -45,6 +49,35 @@ func (e *Extractor) ExtractKval(data map[string]interface{}) map[string]struct{}
 	return results
 }
 
+// ExtractHTML extracts items from text using XPath selectors
+func (e *Extractor) ExtractHTML(corpus string) map[string]struct{} {
+	results := make(map[string]struct{})
+
+	doc, err := htmlquery.Parse(strings.NewReader(corpus))
+	if err != nil {
+		return results
+	}
+	for _, k := range e.XPath {
+		nodes, err := htmlquery.QueryAll(doc, k)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, node := range nodes {
+			var value string
+
+			if e.Attribute != "" {
+				value = htmlquery.SelectAttr(node, e.Attribute)
+			} else {
+				value = htmlquery.InnerText(node)
+			}
+			if _, ok := results[value]; !ok {
+				results[value] = struct{}{}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return results
+}
+
 // ExtractJSON extracts text from a corpus using JQ queries and returns it
 func (e *Extractor) ExtractJSON(corpus string) map[string]struct{} {
 	results := make(map[string]struct{})

v2/pkg/operators/extractors/extractors.go

@@ -79,6 +79,22 @@ type Extractor struct {
 	//   - value: >
 	//       []string{".batters | .batter | .[] | .id"}
 	JSON []string `yaml:"json,omitempty"`
+	// description: |
+	//   XPath allows using xpath expressions to extract items from html response
+	//
+	// examples:
+	//   - value: >
+	//       []string{"/html/body/div/p[2]/a"}
+	//   - value: >
+	//       []string{".batters | .batter | .[] | .id"}
+	XPath []string `yaml:"xpath,omitempty"`
+	// description: |
+	//   Attribute is an optional attribute to extract from response XPath.
+	//
+	// examples:
+	//   - value: "\"href\""
+	Attribute string `yaml:"attribute,omitempty"`
+
 	// jsonCompiled is the compiled variant
 	jsonCompiled []*gojq.Code
 
@@ -96,6 +112,8 @@ const (
 	RegexExtractor ExtractorType = iota + 1
 	// KValExtractor extracts responses with key:value
 	KValExtractor
+	// XPathExtractor extracts responses with Xpath selectors
+	XPathExtractor
 	// JSONExtractor extracts responses with json
 	JSONExtractor
 )
@@ -104,6 +122,7 @@ const (
 var ExtractorTypes = map[string]ExtractorType{
 	"regex": RegexExtractor,
 	"kval":  KValExtractor,
+	"xpath": XPathExtractor,
 	"json":  JSONExtractor,
 }
 

v2/pkg/operators/operators.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package operators
 
 import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 )

v2/pkg/output/format_screen.go

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ func (w *StandardWriter) formatScreen(output *ResultEvent) []byte {
 		builder.WriteString("] ")
 
 		builder.WriteString("[")
-		builder.WriteString(w.severityColors.Data[types.ToString(output.Info["severity"])])
+		builder.WriteString(w.severityColors(output.Info.SeverityHolder.Severity))
 		builder.WriteString("] ")
 	}
 	builder.WriteString(output.Matched)

v2/pkg/output/output.go

@@ -6,11 +6,15 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
 	jsoniter "github.com/json-iterator/go"
 	"github.com/logrusorgru/aurora"
-	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh/pkg/server"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/colorizer"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 )
 
@@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ type StandardWriter struct {
 	outputMutex    *sync.Mutex
 	traceFile      *fileWriter
 	traceMutex     *sync.Mutex
-	severityColors *colorizer.Colorizer
+	severityColors func(severity.Severity) string
 }
 
 var decolorizerRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`\x1B\[[0-9;]*[a-zA-Z]`)
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ type ResultEvent struct {
 	// TemplatePath is the path of template
 	TemplatePath string `json:"-"`
 	// Info contains information block of the template for the result.
-	Info map[string]interface{} `json:"info,inline"`
+	Info model.Info `json:"info,inline"`
 	// MatcherName is the name of the matcher matched if any.
 	MatcherName string `json:"matcher_name,omitempty"`
 	// ExtractorName is the name of the extractor matched if any.

v2/pkg/parsers/parser.go

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+package parsers
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"fmt"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/templates"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
+)
+
+const mandatoryFieldMissingTemplate = "mandatory '%s' field is missing"
+
+// Load loads a template by parsing metadata and running all tag and path based filters on the template.
+func Load(templatePath string, isWorkflow bool, workflowTags []string, tagFilter *filter.TagFilter) (bool, error) {
+	template, templateParseError := parseTemplate(templatePath)
+	if templateParseError != nil {
+		return false, templateParseError
+	}
+
+	templateInfo := template.Info
+	if validationError := validateMandatoryInfoFields(&templateInfo); validationError != nil {
+		return false, validationError
+	}
+
+	if len(template.Workflows) > 0 {
+		if isWorkflow {
+			return true, nil // if a workflow is declared and this template is a workflow, then load
+		} else { //nolint:indent-error-flow,revive // preferred: readability and extensibility
+			return false, nil // if a workflow is declared and this template is not a workflow then do not load
+		}
+	} else if isWorkflow {
+		return false, nil // if no workflows are declared and this template is a workflow then do not load
+	} else { // if workflows are not declared and the template is not a workflow then parse it
+		return isInfoMetadataMatch(tagFilter, &templateInfo, workflowTags)
+	}
+}
+
+func isInfoMetadataMatch(tagFilter *filter.TagFilter, templateInfo *model.Info, workflowTags []string) (bool, error) {
+	templateTags := templateInfo.Tags.ToSlice()
+	templateAuthors := templateInfo.Authors.ToSlice()
+	templateSeverity := templateInfo.SeverityHolder.Severity
+
+	var match bool
+	var err error
+	if len(workflowTags) == 0 {
+		match, err = tagFilter.Match(templateTags, templateAuthors, templateSeverity)
+	} else {
+		match, err = tagFilter.MatchWithWorkflowTags(templateTags, templateAuthors, templateSeverity, workflowTags)
+	}
+
+	if err == filter.ErrExcluded {
+		return false, filter.ErrExcluded
+	}
+
+	return match, nil
+}
+
+func validateMandatoryInfoFields(info *model.Info) error {
+	if info == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf(mandatoryFieldMissingTemplate, "info")
+	}
+
+	if utils.IsBlank(info.Name) {
+		return fmt.Errorf(mandatoryFieldMissingTemplate, "name")
+	}
+
+	if info.Authors.IsEmpty() {
+		return fmt.Errorf(mandatoryFieldMissingTemplate, "author")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func parseTemplate(templatePath string) (*templates.Template, error) {
+	f, err := os.Open(templatePath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	data, err := ioutil.ReadAll(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	template := &templates.Template{}
+	err = yaml.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data)).Decode(template)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return template, nil
+}

v2/pkg/parsers/workflow_loader.go

@@ -1,21 +1,12 @@
-package compile
+package parsers
 
 import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/filter"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog/loader/load"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 )
 
-// WorkflowLoader is a loader interface required for workflow
-// initialization.
-type WorkflowLoader interface {
-	// ListTags lists a list of templates for tags from the provided templates directory
-	ListTags(tags []string) []string
-	// ListTemplates takes a list of templates and returns paths for them
-	ListTemplates(templatesList []string, noValidate bool) []string
-}
-
 type workflowLoader struct {
 	pathFilter *filter.PathFilter
 	tagFilter  *filter.TagFilter
@@ -23,12 +14,12 @@ type workflowLoader struct {
 }
 
 // NewLoader returns a new workflow loader structure
-func NewLoader(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) (WorkflowLoader, error) {
+func NewLoader(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) (model.WorkflowLoader, error) {
 	tagFilter := filter.New(&filter.Config{
 		Tags:        options.Options.Tags,
 		ExcludeTags: options.Options.ExcludeTags,
 		Authors:     options.Options.Author,
-		Severities:  options.Options.Severity,
+		Severities:  options.Options.Severities,
 		IncludeTags: options.Options.IncludeTags,
 	})
 	pathFilter := filter.NewPathFilter(&filter.PathFilterConfig{
@@ -39,13 +30,13 @@ func NewLoader(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) (WorkflowLoader, error) {
 }
 
 // ListTags lists a list of templates for tags from the provided templates directory
-func (w *workflowLoader) ListTags(tags []string) []string {
+func (w *workflowLoader) ListTags(workflowTags []string) []string {
 	includedTemplates := w.options.Catalog.GetTemplatesPath([]string{w.options.Options.TemplatesDirectory})
 	templatesMap := w.pathFilter.Match(includedTemplates)
 
 	loadedTemplates := make([]string, 0, len(templatesMap))
 	for k := range templatesMap {
-		loaded, err := load.Load(k, false, tags, w.tagFilter)
+		loaded, err := Load(k, false, workflowTags, w.tagFilter)
 		if err != nil {
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("Could not load template %s: %s\n", k, err)
 		} else if loaded {
@@ -62,7 +53,7 @@ func (w *workflowLoader) ListTemplates(templatesList []string, noValidate bool)
 
 	loadedTemplates := make([]string, 0, len(templatesMap))
 	for k := range templatesMap {
-		matched, err := load.Load(k, false, nil, w.tagFilter)
+		matched, err := Load(k, false, nil, w.tagFilter)
 		if err != nil {
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("Could not load template %s: %s\n", k, err)
 		} else if matched || noValidate {

v2/pkg/protocols/common/clusterer/executer.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package clusterer
 
 import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ type Executer struct {
 type clusteredOperator struct {
 	templateID   string
 	templatePath string
-	templateInfo map[string]interface{}
+	templateInfo model.Info
 	operator     *operators.Operators
 }
 
@@ -86,6 +87,9 @@ func (e *Executer) Execute(input string) (bool, error) {
 			}
 		}
 	})
+	if err != nil && e.options.HostErrorsCache != nil && e.options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+		e.options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(input)
+	}
 	return results, err
 }
 
@@ -105,5 +109,8 @@ func (e *Executer) ExecuteWithResults(input string, callback protocols.OutputEve
 			}
 		}
 	})
+	if err != nil && e.options.HostErrorsCache != nil && e.options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+		e.options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(input)
+	}
 	return err
 }

v2/pkg/protocols/common/executer/executer.go

@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ func (e *Executer) Execute(input string) (bool, error) {
 			}
 		})
 		if err != nil {
+			if e.options.HostErrorsCache != nil {
+				if e.options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+					e.options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(input)
+				}
+			}
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("[%s] Could not execute request for %s: %s\n", e.options.TemplateID, input, err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -109,6 +114,11 @@ func (e *Executer) ExecuteWithResults(input string, callback protocols.OutputEve
 			callback(event)
 		})
 		if err != nil {
+			if e.options.HostErrorsCache != nil {
+				if e.options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+					e.options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(input)
+				}
+			}
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("[%s] Could not execute request for %s: %s\n", e.options.TemplateID, input, err)
 		}
 	}

v2/pkg/protocols/common/generators/env.go

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+package generators
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/stringsutil"
+)
+
+var envVars map[string]interface{}
+
+func parseEnvVars() map[string]interface{} {
+	sliceEnvVars := os.Environ()
+	parsedEnvVars := make(map[string]interface{}, len(sliceEnvVars))
+	for _, envVar := range sliceEnvVars {
+		key, val := stringsutil.Before(envVar, "="), stringsutil.After(envVar, "=")
+		parsedEnvVars[key] = val
+	}
+	return parsedEnvVars
+}
+
+// EnvVars returns a map with all environment variables into a map
+func EnvVars() map[string]interface{} {
+	if envVars == nil {
+		envVars = parseEnvVars()
+	}
+
+	return envVars
+}

v2/pkg/protocols/common/generators/generators.go

@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ func New(payloads map[string]interface{}, payloadType Type, templatePath string)
 	if payloadType == PitchFork {
 		var totalLength int
 		for v := range compiled {
-			if totalLength != 0 && totalLength != len(v) {
+			if totalLength != 0 && totalLength != len(compiled[v]) {
 				return nil, errors.New("pitchfork payloads must be of equal number")
 			}
-			totalLength = len(v)
+			totalLength = len(compiled[v])
 		}
 	}
 	return generator, nil

v2/pkg/protocols/common/generators/maps.go

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package generators
 
-import "strings"
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
 
 // MergeMaps merges two maps into a new map
 func MergeMaps(m1, m2 map[string]interface{}) map[string]interface{} {

v2/pkg/protocols/common/generators/slice.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package generators
+
+import "github.com/projectdiscovery/stringsutil"
+
+// SliceToMap converts a slice of strings to map of string splitting each item at sep as "key sep value"
+func SliceToMap(s []string, sep string) map[string]interface{} {
+	m := make(map[string]interface{})
+	for _, sliceItem := range s {
+		key := stringsutil.Before(sliceItem, sep)
+		value := stringsutil.After(sliceItem, sep)
+		if key != "" {
+			m[key] = value
+		}
+	}
+	return m
+}

v2/pkg/protocols/common/hosterrorscache/hosterrorscache.go

@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+package hosterrorscache
+
+import (
+	"net"
+	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/bluele/gcache"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
+)
+
+// Cache is a cache for host based errors. It allows skipping
+// certain hosts based on an error threshold.
+//
+// It uses an LRU cache internally for skipping unresponsive hosts
+// that remain so for a duration.
+type Cache struct {
+	hostMaxErrors int
+	verbose       bool
+	failedTargets gcache.Cache
+}
+
+const DefaultMaxHostsCount = 10000
+
+// New returns a new host max errors cache
+func New(hostMaxErrors, maxHostsCount int) *Cache {
+	gc := gcache.New(maxHostsCount).
+		ARC().
+		Build()
+	return &Cache{failedTargets: gc, hostMaxErrors: hostMaxErrors}
+}
+
+// SetVerbose sets the cache to log at verbose level
+func (c *Cache) SetVerbose(verbose bool) *Cache {
+	c.verbose = verbose
+	return c
+}
+
+// Close closes the host errors cache
+func (c *Cache) Close() {
+	c.failedTargets.Purge()
+}
+
+func (c *Cache) normalizeCacheValue(value string) string {
+	finalValue := value
+	if strings.HasPrefix(value, "http") {
+		if parsed, err := url.Parse(value); err == nil {
+
+			hostname := parsed.Host
+			finalPort := parsed.Port()
+			if finalPort == "" {
+				if parsed.Scheme == "https" {
+					finalPort = "443"
+				} else {
+					finalPort = "80"
+				}
+				hostname = net.JoinHostPort(parsed.Host, finalPort)
+			}
+			finalValue = hostname
+		}
+	}
+	return finalValue
+}
+
+// ErrUnresponsiveHost is returned when a host is unresponsive
+//var ErrUnresponsiveHost = errors.New("skipping as host is unresponsive")
+
+// Check returns true if a host should be skipped as it has been
+// unresponsive for a certain number of times.
+//
+// The value can be many formats -
+//   - URL: https?:// type
+//   - Host:port type
+//   - host type
+func (c *Cache) Check(value string) bool {
+	finalValue := c.normalizeCacheValue(value)
+	if !c.failedTargets.Has(finalValue) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	numberOfErrors, err := c.failedTargets.GetIFPresent(finalValue)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	numberOfErrorsValue := numberOfErrors.(int)
+
+	if numberOfErrors == -1 {
+		return true
+	}
+	if numberOfErrorsValue >= c.hostMaxErrors {
+		_ = c.failedTargets.Set(finalValue, -1)
+		if c.verbose {
+			gologger.Verbose().Msgf("Skipping %s as previously unresponsive %d times", finalValue, numberOfErrorsValue)
+		}
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// MarkFailed marks a host as failed previously
+func (c *Cache) MarkFailed(value string) {
+	finalValue := c.normalizeCacheValue(value)
+	if !c.failedTargets.Has(finalValue) {
+		_ = c.failedTargets.Set(finalValue, 1)
+		return
+	}
+
+	numberOfErrors, err := c.failedTargets.GetIFPresent(finalValue)
+	if err != nil || numberOfErrors == nil {
+		_ = c.failedTargets.Set(finalValue, 1)
+		return
+	}
+	numberOfErrorsValue := numberOfErrors.(int)
+
+	_ = c.failedTargets.Set(finalValue, numberOfErrorsValue+1)
+}
+
+var checkErrorRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`(no address found for host|Client\.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers|could not resolve host)`)
+
+// CheckError checks if an error represents a type that should be
+// added to the host skipping table.
+func (c *Cache) CheckError(err error) bool {
+	errString := err.Error()
+	return checkErrorRegexp.MatchString(errString)
+}

v2/pkg/protocols/common/hosterrorscache/hosterrorscache_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package hosterrorscache
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestCacheCheckMarkFailed(t *testing.T) {
+	cache := New(3, DefaultMaxHostsCount)
+
+	cache.MarkFailed("http://example.com:80")
+	if value, err := cache.failedTargets.Get("http://example.com:80"); err == nil && value != nil {
+		require.Equal(t, 1, value, "could not get correct markfailed")
+	}
+	cache.MarkFailed("example.com:80")
+	if value, err := cache.failedTargets.Get("example.com:80"); err == nil && value != nil {
+		require.Equal(t, 2, value, "could not get correct markfailed")
+	}
+	cache.MarkFailed("example.com")
+	if value, err := cache.failedTargets.Get("example.com"); err == nil && value != nil {
+		require.Equal(t, 1, value, "could not get correct markfailed")
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
+		cache.MarkFailed("test")
+	}
+
+	value := cache.Check("test")
+	require.Equal(t, true, value, "could not get checked value")
+}

v2/pkg/protocols/dns/dns_test.go

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ package dns
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 )
 
 func TestDNSCompileMake(t *testing.T) {
@@ -22,7 +25,7 @@ func TestDNSCompileMake(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")

v2/pkg/protocols/dns/operators.go

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/miekg/dns"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "dns",
 		Host:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["host"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/dns/operators_test.go

@@ -6,12 +6,15 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/miekg/dns"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")
@@ -61,7 +64,7 @@ func TestDNSOperatorMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ func TestDNSOperatorExtract(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")
@@ -214,7 +217,7 @@ func TestDNSMakeResult(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")

v2/pkg/protocols/dns/request_test.go

@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ package dns
 import (
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestDNSExecuteWithResults(t *testing.T) {
@@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ func TestDNSExecuteWithResults(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile dns request")

v2/pkg/protocols/file/file_test.go

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ package file
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 )
 
 func TestFileCompile(t *testing.T) {
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ func TestFileCompile(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")

v2/pkg/protocols/file/find_test.go

@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 )
 
 func TestFindInputPaths(t *testing.T) {
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ func TestFindInputPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")

v2/pkg/protocols/file/operators.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "file",
 		Path:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["path"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/file/operators_test.go

@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ package file
 import (
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
@@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ func TestFileOperatorMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -115,7 +118,7 @@ func TestFileOperatorExtract(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -180,7 +183,7 @@ func TestFileMakeResult(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")

v2/pkg/protocols/file/request_test.go

@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ func TestFileExecuteWithResults(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")

v2/pkg/protocols/headless/operators.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package headless
 import (
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "headless",
 		Host:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["host"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/http/build_request.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package http
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net"
@@ -15,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/expressions"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/generators"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/replacer"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/http/race"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/http/raw"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/rawhttp"
@@ -51,23 +51,30 @@ func (r *requestGenerator) Make(baseURL string, dynamicValues map[string]interfa
 	}
 
 	data, parsed = baseURLWithTemplatePrefs(data, parsed)
-	values := generators.MergeMaps(dynamicValues, map[string]interface{}{
-		"Hostname": parsed.Host,
-	})
 
+	trailingSlash := false
 	isRawRequest := len(r.request.Raw) > 0
 	if !isRawRequest && strings.HasSuffix(parsed.Path, "/") && strings.Contains(data, "{{BaseURL}}/") {
-		parsed.Path = strings.TrimSuffix(parsed.Path, "/")
+		trailingSlash = true
+	}
+	values := generators.MergeMaps(dynamicValues, generateVariables(parsed, trailingSlash))
+
+	// merge with vars
+	if !r.options.Options.Vars.IsEmpty() {
+		values = generators.MergeMaps(values, r.options.Options.Vars.AsMap())
+	}
+
+	// merge with env vars
+	if r.options.Options.EnvironmentVariables {
+		values = generators.MergeMaps(generators.EnvVars(), values)
 	}
-	parsedString := parsed.String()
-	values["BaseURL"] = parsedString
 
 	// If data contains \n it's a raw request, process it like raw. Else
 	// continue with the template based request flow.
 	if isRawRequest {
-		return r.makeHTTPRequestFromRaw(ctx, parsedString, data, values, payloads, interactURL)
+		return r.makeHTTPRequestFromRaw(ctx, parsed.String(), data, values, payloads, interactURL)
 	}
-	return r.makeHTTPRequestFromModel(ctx, data, values, interactURL)
+	return r.makeHTTPRequestFromModel(ctx, data, values, payloads, interactURL)
 }
 
 // Total returns the total number of requests for the generator
@@ -96,23 +103,38 @@ func baseURLWithTemplatePrefs(data string, parsed *url.URL) (string, *url.URL) {
 }
 
 // MakeHTTPRequestFromModel creates a *http.Request from a request template
-func (r *requestGenerator) makeHTTPRequestFromModel(ctx context.Context, data string, values map[string]interface{}, interactURL string) (*generatedRequest, error) {
+func (r *requestGenerator) makeHTTPRequestFromModel(ctx context.Context, data string, values, generatorValues map[string]interface{}, interactURL string) (*generatedRequest, error) {
-	final := replacer.Replace(data, values)
 	if interactURL != "" {
-		final = r.options.Interactsh.ReplaceMarkers(final, interactURL)
+		data = r.options.Interactsh.ReplaceMarkers(data, interactURL)
+	}
+
+	// Combine the template payloads along with base
+	// request values.
+	finalValues := generators.MergeMaps(generatorValues, values)
+
+	// Evaulate the expressions for the request if any.
+	var err error
+	data, err = expressions.Evaluate(data, finalValues)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not evaluate helper expressions")
+	}
+
+	method, err := expressions.Evaluate(r.request.Method, finalValues)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not evaluate helper expressions")
 	}
 
 	// Build a request on the specified URL
-	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, r.request.Method, final, nil)
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, method, data, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	request, err := r.fillRequest(req, values, interactURL)
+	request, err := r.fillRequest(req, finalValues, interactURL)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return &generatedRequest{request: request, original: r.request}, nil
+	return &generatedRequest{request: request, meta: generatorValues, original: r.request}, nil
 }
 
 // makeHTTPRequestFromRaw creates a *http.Request from a raw request
@@ -168,7 +190,7 @@ func (r *requestGenerator) handleRawWithPayloads(ctx context.Context, rawRequest
 			req.Host = value
 		}
 	}
-	request, err := r.fillRequest(req, values, "")
+	request, err := r.fillRequest(req, finalValues, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -183,9 +205,13 @@ func (r *requestGenerator) fillRequest(req *http.Request, values map[string]inte
 		if interactURL != "" {
 			value = r.options.Interactsh.ReplaceMarkers(value, interactURL)
 		}
-		req.Header[header] = []string{replacer.Replace(value, values)}
+		value, err := expressions.Evaluate(value, values)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not evaluate helper expressions")
+		}
+		req.Header[header] = []string{value}
 		if header == "Host" {
-			req.Host = replacer.Replace(value, values)
+			req.Host = value
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -200,6 +226,10 @@ func (r *requestGenerator) fillRequest(req *http.Request, values map[string]inte
 		if interactURL != "" {
 			body = r.options.Interactsh.ReplaceMarkers(body, interactURL)
 		}
+		body, err := expressions.Evaluate(body, values)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not evaluate helper expressions")
+		}
 		req.Body = ioutil.NopCloser(strings.NewReader(body))
 	}
 	setHeader(req, "User-Agent", uarand.GetRandom())
@@ -221,3 +251,34 @@ func setHeader(req *http.Request, name, value string) {
 		req.Host = value
 	}
 }
+
+// generateVariables will create default variables after parsing a url
+func generateVariables(parsed *url.URL, trailingSlash bool) map[string]interface{} {
+	domain := parsed.Host
+	if strings.Contains(parsed.Host, ":") {
+		domain = strings.Split(parsed.Host, ":")[0]
+	}
+
+	port := parsed.Port()
+	if port == "" {
+		if parsed.Scheme == "https" {
+			port = "443"
+		} else if parsed.Scheme == "http" {
+			port = "80"
+		}
+	}
+
+	if trailingSlash {
+		parsed.Path = strings.TrimSuffix(parsed.Path, "/")
+	}
+
+	return map[string]interface{}{
+		"BaseURL":  parsed.String(),
+		"RootURL":  fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s", parsed.Scheme, parsed.Host),
+		"Hostname": parsed.Host,
+		"Host":     domain,
+		"Port":     port,
+		"Path":     parsed.EscapedPath(),
+		"Scheme":   parsed.Scheme,
+	}
+}

v2/pkg/protocols/http/build_request_test.go

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"net/url"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
@@ -18,6 +20,44 @@ func TestBaseURLWithTemplatePrefs(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, "{{BaseURL}}/newpath", data, "could not get correct data")
 }
 
+func TestVariables(t *testing.T) {
+	baseURL := "http://localhost:9001/test/123"
+	parsed, _ := url.Parse(baseURL)
+	values := generateVariables(parsed, true)
+
+	require.Equal(t, values["BaseURL"], parsed.String(), "incorrect baseurl")
+	require.Equal(t, values["RootURL"], "http://localhost:9001", "incorrect rootURL")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Host"], "localhost", "incorrect domain name")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Path"], "/test/123", "incorrect path")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Port"], "9001", "incorrect port number")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Scheme"], "http", "incorrect scheme")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Hostname"], "localhost:9001", "incorrect hostname")
+
+	baseURL = "https://example.com"
+	parsed, _ = url.Parse(baseURL)
+	values = generateVariables(parsed, false)
+
+	require.Equal(t, values["BaseURL"], parsed.String(), "incorrect baseurl")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Host"], "example.com", "incorrect domain name")
+	require.Equal(t, values["RootURL"], "https://example.com", "incorrect rootURL")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Path"], "", "incorrect path")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Port"], "443", "incorrect port number")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Scheme"], "https", "incorrect scheme")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Hostname"], "example.com", "incorrect hostname")
+
+	baseURL = "ftp://foobar.com/"
+	parsed, _ = url.Parse(baseURL)
+	values = generateVariables(parsed, true)
+
+	require.Equal(t, values["BaseURL"], parsed.String(), "incorrect baseurl")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Host"], "foobar.com", "incorrect domain name")
+	require.Equal(t, values["RootURL"], "ftp://foobar.com", "incorrect rootURL")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Path"], "", "incorrect path")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Port"], "", "incorrect port number") // Unsupported protocol results in a blank port
+	require.Equal(t, values["Scheme"], "ftp", "incorrect scheme")
+	require.Equal(t, values["Hostname"], "foobar.com", "incorrect hostname")
+}
+
 func TestMakeRequestFromModal(t *testing.T) {
 	options := testutils.DefaultOptions
 
@@ -36,7 +76,7 @@ func TestMakeRequestFromModal(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile http request")
@@ -63,7 +103,7 @@ func TestMakeRequestFromModalTrimSuffixSlash(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile http request")
@@ -101,7 +141,7 @@ Accept-Encoding: gzip`},
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile http request")
@@ -140,7 +180,7 @@ Accept-Encoding: gzip`},
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile http request")

v2/pkg/protocols/http/http.go

@@ -178,12 +178,19 @@ func (r *Request) GetID() string {
 
 // Compile compiles the protocol request for further execution.
 func (r *Request) Compile(options *protocols.ExecuterOptions) error {
-	client, err := httpclientpool.Get(options.Options, &httpclientpool.Configuration{
+	connectionConfiguration := &httpclientpool.Configuration{
 		Threads:         r.Threads,
 		MaxRedirects:    r.MaxRedirects,
 		FollowRedirects: r.Redirects,
 		CookieReuse:     r.CookieReuse,
-	})
+	}
+
+	// if the headers contain "Connection" we need to disable the automatic keep alive of the standard library
+	if _, hasConnectionHeader := r.Headers["Connection"]; hasConnectionHeader {
+		connectionConfiguration.Connection = &httpclientpool.ConnectionConfiguration{DisableKeepAlive: false}
+	}
+
+	client, err := httpclientpool.Get(options.Options, connectionConfiguration)
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "could not get dns client")
 	}

v2/pkg/protocols/http/http_test.go

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ package http
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 )
 
 func TestHTTPCompile(t *testing.T) {
@@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ Accept-Encoding: gzip`},
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile http request")

v2/pkg/protocols/http/httpclientpool/clientpool.go

@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ func Init(options *types.Options) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// // Configuration contains the custom configuration options for a connection
+type ConnectionConfiguration struct {
+	// DisableKeepAlive of the connection
+	DisableKeepAlive bool
+}
+
 // Configuration contains the custom configuration options for a client
 type Configuration struct {
 	// Threads contains the threads for the client
@@ -60,6 +66,8 @@ type Configuration struct {
 	CookieReuse bool
 	// FollowRedirects specifies whether to follow redirects
 	FollowRedirects bool
+	// Connection defines custom connection configuration
+	Connection *ConnectionConfiguration
 }
 
 // Hash returns the hash of the configuration to allow client pooling
@@ -74,10 +82,17 @@ func (c *Configuration) Hash() string {
 	builder.WriteString(strconv.FormatBool(c.FollowRedirects))
 	builder.WriteString("r")
 	builder.WriteString(strconv.FormatBool(c.CookieReuse))
+	builder.WriteString("c")
+	builder.WriteString(strconv.FormatBool(c.Connection != nil))
 	hash := builder.String()
 	return hash
 }
 
+// HasCustomOptions checks whether the configuration requires custom settings
+func (c *Configuration) HasStandardOptions() bool {
+	return c.Threads == 0 && c.MaxRedirects == 0 && !c.FollowRedirects && !c.CookieReuse && c.Connection == nil
+}
+
 // GetRawHTTP returns the rawhttp request client
 func GetRawHTTP(options *types.Options) *rawhttp.Client {
 	if rawhttpClient == nil {
@@ -90,7 +105,7 @@ func GetRawHTTP(options *types.Options) *rawhttp.Client {
 
 // Get creates or gets a client for the protocol based on custom configuration
 func Get(options *types.Options, configuration *Configuration) (*retryablehttp.Client, error) {
-	if configuration.Threads == 0 && configuration.MaxRedirects == 0 && !configuration.FollowRedirects && !configuration.CookieReuse {
+	if configuration.HasStandardOptions() {
 		return normalClient, nil
 	}
 	return wrappedGet(options, configuration)
@@ -140,6 +155,11 @@ func wrappedGet(options *types.Options, configuration *Configuration) (*retryabl
 	followRedirects := configuration.FollowRedirects
 	maxRedirects := configuration.MaxRedirects
 
+	// override connection's settings if required
+	if configuration.Connection != nil {
+		disableKeepAlives = configuration.Connection.DisableKeepAlive
+	}
+
 	transport := &http.Transport{
 		DialContext:         Dialer.Dial,
 		MaxIdleConns:        maxIdleConns,

v2/pkg/protocols/http/operators.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ func (r *Request) Extract(data map[string]interface{}, extractor *extractors.Ext
 		return extractor.ExtractRegex(item)
 	case extractors.KValExtractor:
 		return extractor.ExtractKval(data)
+	case extractors.XPathExtractor:
+		return extractor.ExtractHTML(item)
 	case extractors.JSONExtractor:
 		return extractor.ExtractJSON(item)
 	}
@@ -144,7 +147,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "http",
 		Host:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["host"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/http/operators_test.go

@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
@@ -26,7 +29,7 @@ func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ func TestHTTPOperatorMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -126,7 +129,7 @@ func TestHTTPOperatorExtract(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")
@@ -237,7 +240,7 @@ func TestHTTPMakeResult(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile file request")

v2/pkg/protocols/http/request.go

@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@ func (r *Request) ExecuteWithResults(reqURL string, dynamicValues, previous outp
 			return err
 		}
 
+		// Check if hosts just keep erroring
+		if r.options.HostErrorsCache != nil && r.options.HostErrorsCache.Check(reqURL) {
+			break
+		}
 		var gotOutput bool
 		r.options.RateLimiter.Take()
 		err = r.executeRequest(reqURL, request, previous, func(event *output.InternalWrappedEvent) {
@@ -237,7 +241,10 @@ func (r *Request) ExecuteWithResults(reqURL string, dynamicValues, previous outp
 			}
 		}, requestCount)
 		if err != nil {
-			requestErr = multierr.Append(requestErr, err)
+			if r.options.HostErrorsCache != nil && r.options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+				r.options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(reqURL)
+			}
+			requestErr = err
 		}
 		requestCount++
 		r.options.Progress.IncrementRequests()
@@ -304,9 +311,10 @@ func (r *Request) executeRequest(reqURL string, request *generatedRequest, previ
 
 	// For race conditions we can't dump the request body at this point as it's already waiting the open-gate event, already handled with a similar code within the race function
 	if !request.original.Race {
-		dumpedRequest, err = dump(request, reqURL)
+		var dumpError error
-		if err != nil {
+		dumpedRequest, dumpError = dump(request, reqURL)
-			return err
+		if dumpError != nil {
+			return dumpError
 		}
 
 		if r.options.Options.Debug || r.options.Options.DebugRequests {
@@ -314,10 +322,6 @@ func (r *Request) executeRequest(reqURL string, request *generatedRequest, previ
 			gologger.Print().Msgf("%s", string(dumpedRequest))
 		}
 	}
-
-	if resp == nil {
-		err = errors.New("no response got for request")
-	}
 	if err != nil {
 		// rawhttp doesn't supports draining response bodies.
 		if resp != nil && resp.Body != nil && request.rawRequest == nil {
@@ -354,7 +358,7 @@ func (r *Request) executeRequest(reqURL string, request *generatedRequest, previ
 		// Ignore body read due to server misconfiguration errors
 		if stringsutil.ContainsAny(err.Error(), "gzip: invalid header") {
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("[%s] Server sent an invalid gzip header and it was not possible to read the uncompressed body for %s: %s", r.options.TemplateID, formedURL, err.Error())
-		} else if !stringsutil.ContainsAny(err.Error(), "unexpected EOF") { // ignore EOF error
+		} else if !stringsutil.ContainsAny(err.Error(), "unexpected EOF", "user canceled") { // ignore EOF and random error
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "could not read http body")
 		}
 	}

v2/pkg/protocols/http/request_generator.go

@@ -31,20 +31,39 @@ func (r *Request) newGenerator() *requestGenerator {
 // nextValue returns the next path or the next raw request depending on user input
 // It returns false if all the inputs have been exhausted by the generator instance.
 func (r *requestGenerator) nextValue() (value string, payloads map[string]interface{}, result bool) {
-	// If we have paths, return the next path.
+	// For both raw/path requests, start with the request at current index.
+	// If we are not at the start, then check if the iterator for payloads
+	// has finished if there are any.
+	//
+	// If the iterator has finished for the current request
+	// then reset it and move on to the next value, otherwise use the last request.
+
 	if len(r.request.Path) > 0 && r.currentIndex < len(r.request.Path) {
+		if r.payloadIterator != nil {
+			payload, ok := r.payloadIterator.Value()
+			if !ok {
+				r.currentIndex++
+				r.payloadIterator.Reset()
+
+				// No more payloads request for us now.
+				if len(r.request.Path) == r.currentIndex {
+					return "", nil, false
+				}
+				if item := r.request.Path[r.currentIndex]; item != "" {
+					newPayload, ok := r.payloadIterator.Value()
+					return item, newPayload, ok
+				}
+				return "", nil, false
+			}
+			return r.request.Path[r.currentIndex], payload, true
+		}
 		if value := r.request.Path[r.currentIndex]; value != "" {
 			r.currentIndex++
 			return value, nil, true
 		}
 	}
 
-	// If we have raw requests, start with the request at current index.
+	
-	// If we are not at the start, then check if the iterator for payloads
-	// has finished if there are any.
-	//
-	// If the iterator has finished for the current raw request
-	// then reset it and move on to the next value, otherwise use the last request.
 	if len(r.request.Raw) > 0 && r.currentIndex < len(r.request.Raw) {
 		if r.payloadIterator != nil {
 			payload, ok := r.payloadIterator.Value()

v2/pkg/protocols/network/network_test.go

@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ package network
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 )
 
 func TestNetworkCompileMake(t *testing.T) {
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ func TestNetworkCompileMake(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")

v2/pkg/protocols/network/operators.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package network
 import (
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "network",
 		Host:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["host"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/network/operators_test.go

@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@ package network
 import (
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")
@@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ func TestNetworkOperatorMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")
@@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ func TestNetworkOperatorExtract(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")
@@ -175,7 +178,7 @@ func TestNetworkMakeResult(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")

v2/pkg/protocols/network/request_test.go

@@ -8,12 +8,15 @@ import (
 	"net/url"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestNetworkExecuteWithResults(t *testing.T) {
@@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ func TestNetworkExecuteWithResults(t *testing.T) {
 	request.Inputs = append(request.Inputs, &Input{Data: fmt.Sprintf("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: %s\r\n\r\n", parsed.Host)})
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	err = request.Compile(executerOpts)
 	require.Nil(t, err, "could not compile network request")

v2/pkg/protocols/offlinehttp/find_test.go

@@ -6,9 +6,12 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 )
 
 func TestFindResponses(t *testing.T) {
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ func TestFindResponses(t *testing.T) {
 	request := &Request{}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	executerOpts.Operators = []*operators.Operators{{}}
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)

v2/pkg/protocols/offlinehttp/operators.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ func (r *Request) makeResultEventItem(wrapped *output.InternalWrappedEvent) *out
 	data := &output.ResultEvent{
 		TemplateID:       types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-id"]),
 		TemplatePath:     types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["template-path"]),
-		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(map[string]interface{}),
+		Info:             wrapped.InternalEvent["template-info"].(model.Info),
 		Type:             "http",
 		Path:             types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["path"]),
 		Matched:          types.ToString(wrapped.InternalEvent["matched"]),

v2/pkg/protocols/offlinehttp/operators_test.go

@@ -5,12 +5,15 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/testutils"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
 func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ func TestResponseToDSLMap(t *testing.T) {
 	request := &Request{}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	executerOpts.Operators = []*operators.Operators{{}}
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
@@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ func TestHTTPOperatorMatch(t *testing.T) {
 	request := &Request{}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	executerOpts.Operators = []*operators.Operators{{}}
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
@@ -113,7 +116,7 @@ func TestHTTPOperatorExtract(t *testing.T) {
 	request := &Request{}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	executerOpts.Operators = []*operators.Operators{{}}
 	err := request.Compile(executerOpts)
@@ -166,7 +169,7 @@ func TestHTTPMakeResult(t *testing.T) {
 	request := &Request{}
 	executerOpts := testutils.NewMockExecuterOptions(options, &testutils.TemplateInfo{
 		ID:   templateID,
-		Info: map[string]interface{}{"severity": "low", "name": "test"},
+		Info: model.Info{SeverityHolder: severity.SeverityHolder{Severity: severity.Low}, Name: "test"},
 	})
 	executerOpts.Operators = []*operators.Operators{{
 		Matchers: []*matchers.Matcher{{

v2/pkg/protocols/protocols.go

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ package protocols
 
 import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/catalog"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/extractors"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators/matchers"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/progress"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/projectfile"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/hosterrorscache"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/interactsh"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/headless/engine"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting"
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ type ExecuterOptions struct {
 	// TemplatePath is the path of the template for the request
 	TemplatePath string
 	// TemplateInfo contains information block of the template request
-	TemplateInfo map[string]interface{}
+	TemplateInfo model.Info
 	// Output is a writer interface for writing output events from executer.
 	Output output.Writer
 	// Options contains configuration options for the executer.
@@ -53,8 +55,12 @@ type ExecuterOptions struct {
 	Browser *engine.Browser
 	// Interactsh is a client for interactsh oob polling server
 	Interactsh *interactsh.Client
+	// HostErrorsCache is an optional cache for handling host errors
+	HostErrorsCache *hosterrorscache.Cache
 
 	Operators []*operators.Operators // only used by offlinehttp module
+
+	WorkflowLoader model.WorkflowLoader
 }
 
 // Request is an interface implemented any protocol based request generator.

v2/pkg/reporting/dedupe/dedupe.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha1"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
+	"reflect"
 	"unsafe"
 
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
@@ -106,5 +107,7 @@ func (s *Storage) Index(result *output.ResultEvent) (bool, error) {
 //
 // Reference - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59209493/how-to-use-unsafe-get-a-byte-slice-from-a-string-without-memory-copy
 func unsafeToBytes(data string) []byte {
-	return *(*[]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&data))
+	var buf = *(*[]byte)(unsafe.Pointer(&data))
+	(*reflect.SliceHeader)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf)).Cap = len(data)
+	return buf
 }

v2/pkg/reporting/exporters/sarif/sarif.go

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/owenrumney/go-sarif/sarif"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/format"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
 )
 
 // Exporter is an exporter for nuclei sarif output format.
@@ -59,8 +62,8 @@ func (i *Exporter) Export(event *output.ResultEvent) error {
 	sarifSeverity := getSarifSeverity(event)
 
 	var ruleName string
-	if s, ok := event.Info["name"]; ok {
+	if utils.IsNotBlank(event.Info.Name) {
-		ruleName = s.(string)
+		ruleName = event.Info.Name
 	}
 
 	var templateURL string
@@ -71,8 +74,8 @@ func (i *Exporter) Export(event *output.ResultEvent) error {
 	}
 
 	var ruleDescription string
-	if d, ok := event.Info["description"]; ok {
+	if utils.IsNotBlank(event.Info.Description) {
-		ruleDescription = d.(string)
+		ruleDescription = event.Info.Description
 	}
 
 	i.mutex.Lock()
@@ -108,17 +111,12 @@ func (i *Exporter) Export(event *output.ResultEvent) error {
 
 // getSarifSeverity returns the sarif severity
 func getSarifSeverity(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
-	var ruleSeverity string
+	switch event.Info.SeverityHolder.Severity {
-	if s, ok := event.Info["severity"]; ok {
+	case severity.Info:
-		ruleSeverity = s.(string)
-	}
-
-	switch ruleSeverity {
-	case "info":
 		return "note"
-	case "low", "medium":
+	case severity.Low, severity.Medium:
 		return "warning"
-	case "high", "critical":
+	case severity.High, severity.Critical:
 		return "error"
 	default:
 		return "note"

v2/pkg/reporting/format/format.go

@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ package format
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
 )
@@ -17,9 +19,9 @@ func Summary(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
 	builder.WriteString("[")
 	builder.WriteString(template)
 	builder.WriteString("] [")
-	builder.WriteString(types.ToString(event.Info["severity"]))
+	builder.WriteString(types.ToString(event.Info.SeverityHolder))
 	builder.WriteString("] ")
-	builder.WriteString(types.ToString(event.Info["name"]))
+	builder.WriteString(types.ToString(event.Info.Name))
 	builder.WriteString(" found on ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Host)
 	data := builder.String()
@@ -28,27 +30,28 @@ func Summary(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
 
 // MarkdownDescription formats a short description of the generated
 // event by the nuclei scanner in Markdown format.
-func MarkdownDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
+func MarkdownDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string { // TODO remove the code duplication: format.go <-> jira.go
 	template := GetMatchedTemplate(event)
 	builder := &bytes.Buffer{}
 	builder.WriteString("**Details**: **")
 	builder.WriteString(template)
 	builder.WriteString("** ")
+
 	builder.WriteString(" matched at ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Host)
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n**Protocol**: ")
 	builder.WriteString(strings.ToUpper(event.Type))
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n**Full URL**: ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Matched)
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n**Timestamp**: ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Timestamp.Format("Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006"))
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n**Template Information**\n\n| Key | Value |\n|---|---|\n")
-	for k, v := range event.Info {
+	builder.WriteString(ToMarkdownTableString(&event.Info))
-		if k == "reference" {
+
-			continue
-		}
-		builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("| %s | %s |\n", k, v))
-	}
 	if event.Request != "" {
 		builder.WriteString("\n**Request**\n\n```http\n")
 		builder.WriteString(event.Request)
@@ -113,17 +116,29 @@ func MarkdownDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
 			builder.WriteString("\n```\n")
 		}
 	}
-	if d, ok := event.Info["reference"]; ok {
+
+	reference := event.Info.Reference
+	if !reference.IsEmpty() {
 		builder.WriteString("\nReference: \n")
 
-		switch v := d.(type) {
+		/*TODO couldn't the following code replace the logic below?
+		referenceSlice := reference.ToSlice()
+		for i, item := range referenceSlice {
+			builder.WriteString("- ")
+			builder.WriteString(item)
+			if len(referenceSlice)-1 != i {
+				builder.WriteString("\n")
+			}
+		}*/
+
+		switch value := reference.Value.(type) {
 		case string:
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(v, "-") {
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(value, "-") {
 				builder.WriteString("- ")
 			}
-			builder.WriteString(v)
+			builder.WriteString(value)
 		case []interface{}:
-			slice := types.ToStringSlice(v)
+			slice := types.ToStringSlice(value)
 			for i, item := range slice {
 				builder.WriteString("- ")
 				builder.WriteString(item)
@@ -154,3 +169,25 @@ func GetMatchedTemplate(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
 	template := builder.String()
 	return template
 }
+
+func ToMarkdownTableString(templateInfo *model.Info) string {
+	fields := map[string]string{
+		"Name":        templateInfo.Name,
+		"Authors":     sliceToString(templateInfo.Authors),
+		"Tags":        sliceToString(templateInfo.Tags),
+		"Description": templateInfo.Description,
+		"Severity":    templateInfo.SeverityHolder.Severity.String(),
+	}
+
+	builder := &bytes.Buffer{}
+	for k, v := range fields {
+		if utils.IsNotBlank(v) {
+			builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("| %s | %s |\n", k, v))
+		}
+	}
+	return builder.String()
+}
+
+func sliceToString(stringSlice model.StringSlice) string {
+	return strings.Join(stringSlice.ToSlice(), ", ")
+}

v2/pkg/reporting/reporting.go

@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"go.uber.org/multierr"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/dedupe"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/exporters/disk"
@@ -11,8 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/trackers/github"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/trackers/gitlab"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/trackers/jira"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
-	"go.uber.org/multierr"
 )
 
 // Options is a configuration file for nuclei reporting module
@@ -36,41 +38,44 @@ type Options struct {
 // Filter filters the received event and decides whether to perform
 // reporting for it or not.
 type Filter struct {
-	Severity string `yaml:"severity"`
+	Severities severity.Severities `yaml:"severity"`
-	severity []string
+	Tags       model.StringSlice   `yaml:"tags"`
-	Tags     string `yaml:"tags"`
-	tags     []string
-}
-
-// Compile compiles the filter creating match structures.
-func (f *Filter) Compile() {
-	parts := strings.Split(f.Severity, ",")
-	for _, part := range parts {
-		f.severity = append(f.severity, strings.TrimSpace(part))
-	}
-	parts = strings.Split(f.Tags, ",")
-	for _, part := range parts {
-		f.tags = append(f.tags, strings.TrimSpace(part))
-	}
 }
 
 // GetMatch returns true if a filter matches result event
-func (f *Filter) GetMatch(event *output.ResultEvent) bool {
+func (filter *Filter) GetMatch(event *output.ResultEvent) bool {
-	severity := types.ToString(event.Info["severity"])
+	return isSeverityMatch(event, filter) && isTagMatch(event, filter) // TODO revisit this
-	if len(f.severity) > 0 {
+}
-		return stringSliceContains(f.severity, severity)
+
+func isTagMatch(event *output.ResultEvent, filter *Filter) bool {
+	filterTags := filter.Tags
+	if filterTags.IsEmpty() {
+		return true
 	}
 
-	tags := event.Info["tags"]
+	tags := event.Info.Tags.ToSlice()
-	tagParts := strings.Split(types.ToString(tags), ",")
+	for _, tag := range filterTags.ToSlice() {
-	for i, tag := range tagParts {
+		if stringSliceContains(tags, tag) {
-		tagParts[i] = strings.TrimSpace(tag)
-	}
-	for _, tag := range f.tags {
-		if stringSliceContains(tagParts, tag) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
+
+	return false
+}
+
+func isSeverityMatch(event *output.ResultEvent, filter *Filter) bool {
+	resultEventSeverity := event.Info.SeverityHolder.Severity // TODO review
+
+	if len(filter.Severities) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+
+	for _, current := range filter.Severities {
+		if current == resultEventSeverity {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+
 	return false
 }
 
@@ -98,17 +103,6 @@ type Client struct {
 
 // New creates a new nuclei issue tracker reporting client
 func New(options *Options, db string) (*Client, error) {
-	if options == nil {
-		return nil, errors.New("no options passed")
-	}
-
-	if options.AllowList != nil {
-		options.AllowList.Compile()
-	}
-	if options.DenyList != nil {
-		options.DenyList.Compile()
-	}
-
 	client := &Client{options: options}
 	if options.Github != nil {
 		tracker, err := github.New(options.Github)

v2/pkg/reporting/trackers/jira/jira.go

@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"strings"
 
-	jira "github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira"
+	"github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/output"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/reporting/format"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/types"
 )
 
-// Integration is a client for a issue tracker integration
+// Integration is a client for an issue tracker integration
 type Integration struct {
 	jira    *jira.Client
 	options *Options
@@ -93,31 +94,34 @@ func (i *Integration) CreateIssue(event *output.ResultEvent) error {
 
 // jiraFormatDescription formats a short description of the generated
 // event by the nuclei scanner in Jira format.
-func jiraFormatDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
+func jiraFormatDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string { // TODO remove the code duplication: format.go <-> jira.go
 	template := format.GetMatchedTemplate(event)
 
 	builder := &bytes.Buffer{}
 	builder.WriteString("*Details*: *")
 	builder.WriteString(template)
 	builder.WriteString("* ")
+
 	builder.WriteString(" matched at ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Host)
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n*Protocol*: ")
 	builder.WriteString(strings.ToUpper(event.Type))
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n*Full URL*: ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Matched)
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n*Timestamp*: ")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Timestamp.Format("Mon Jan 2 15:04:05 -0700 MST 2006"))
+
 	builder.WriteString("\n\n*Template Information*\n\n| Key | Value |\n")
-	for k, v := range event.Info {
+	builder.WriteString(format.ToMarkdownTableString(&event.Info))
-		if k == "reference" {
+
-			continue
-		}
-		builder.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("| %s | %s |\n", k, v))
-	}
 	builder.WriteString("\n*Request*\n\n{code}\n")
 	builder.WriteString(event.Request)
-	builder.WriteString("\n{code}\n\n*Response*\n\n{code}\n")
+	builder.WriteString("\n{code}\n")
+
+	builder.WriteString("\n*Response*\n\n{code}\n")
 	// If the response is larger than 5 kb, truncate it before writing.
 	if len(event.Response) > 5*1024 {
 		builder.WriteString(event.Response[:5*1024])
@@ -174,10 +178,22 @@ func jiraFormatDescription(event *output.ResultEvent) string {
 			builder.WriteString("\n{code}\n")
 		}
 	}
-	if d, ok := event.Info["reference"]; ok {
+
+	reference := event.Info.Reference
+	if !reference.IsEmpty() {
 		builder.WriteString("\nReference: \n")
 
-		switch v := d.(type) {
+		/*TODO couldn't the following code replace the logic below?
+		referenceSlice := reference.ToSlice()
+		for i, item := range referenceSlice {
+			builder.WriteString("- ")
+			builder.WriteString(item)
+			if len(referenceSlice)-1 != i {
+				builder.WriteString("\n")
+			}
+		}*/
+
+		switch v := reference.Value.(type) {
 		case string:
 			if !strings.HasPrefix(v, "-") {
 				builder.WriteString("- ")

v2/pkg/templates/compile.go

@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
+
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/operators"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/common/executer"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/offlinehttp"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/workflows/compile"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/utils"
-	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
 // Parse parses a yaml request template file
@@ -42,10 +43,10 @@ func Parse(filePath string, preprocessor Preprocessor, options protocols.Execute
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	if _, ok := template.Info["name"]; !ok {
+	if utils.IsBlank(template.Info.Name) {
 		return nil, errors.New("no template name field provided")
 	}
-	if _, ok := template.Info["author"]; !ok {
+	if template.Info.Authors.IsEmpty() {
 		return nil, errors.New("no template author field provided")
 	}
 
@@ -63,11 +64,7 @@ func Parse(filePath string, preprocessor Preprocessor, options protocols.Execute
 	if len(template.Workflows) > 0 {
 		compiled := &template.Workflow
 
-		loader, err := compile.NewLoader(&options)
+		compileWorkflow(preprocessor, &options, compiled, options.WorkflowLoader)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "could not create workflow loader")
-		}
-		compileWorkflow(preprocessor, &options, compiled, loader)
 		template.CompiledWorkflow = compiled
 		template.CompiledWorkflow.Options = &options
 	}

v2/pkg/templates/templates.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 package templates
 
 import (
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/dns"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols/file"
@@ -29,12 +30,10 @@ type Template struct {
 	//     value: "\"cve-2021-19520\""
 	ID string `yaml:"id"`
 	// description: |
-	//   Info contains metadata information about the template. At minimum, it
+	//   Info contains metadata information about the template.
-	//   should contain `name`, `author`, `severity`, `description`, `tags`. Optionally
-	//   you can also specify a list of `references` for the template.
 	// examples:
 	//   - value: exampleInfoStructure
-	Info map[string]interface{} `yaml:"info"`
+	Info model.Info `yaml:"info"`
 	// description: |
 	//   Requests contains the http request to make in the template.
 	// examples:

v2/pkg/templates/workflows.go

@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ package templates
 
 import (
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
 	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/workflows"
-	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/workflows/compile"
 )
 
 // compileWorkflow compiles the workflow for execution
-func compileWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, workflow *workflows.Workflow, loader compile.WorkflowLoader) {
+func compileWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, workflow *workflows.Workflow, loader model.WorkflowLoader) {
 	for _, workflow := range workflow.Workflows {
 		if err := parseWorkflow(preprocessor, workflow, options, loader); err != nil {
 			gologger.Warning().Msgf("Could not parse workflow: %v\n", err)
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ func compileWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, options *protocols.ExecuterOptio
 }
 
 // parseWorkflow parses and compiles all templates in a workflow recursively
-func parseWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, workflow *workflows.WorkflowTemplate, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, loader compile.WorkflowLoader) error {
+func parseWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, workflow *workflows.WorkflowTemplate, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, loader model.WorkflowLoader) error {
 	shouldNotValidate := false
 
 	if len(workflow.Subtemplates) > 0 || len(workflow.Matchers) > 0 {
@@ -45,11 +45,12 @@ func parseWorkflow(preprocessor Preprocessor, workflow *workflows.WorkflowTempla
 }
 
 // parseWorkflowTemplate parses a workflow template creating an executer
-func parseWorkflowTemplate(workflow *workflows.WorkflowTemplate, preprocessor Preprocessor, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, loader compile.WorkflowLoader, noValidate bool) error {
+func parseWorkflowTemplate(workflow *workflows.WorkflowTemplate, preprocessor Preprocessor, options *protocols.ExecuterOptions, loader model.WorkflowLoader, noValidate bool) error {
 	var paths []string
 
-	if len(workflow.Tags) > 0 {
+	workflowTags := workflow.Tags
-		paths = loader.ListTags([]string{workflow.Tags})
+	if !workflowTags.IsEmpty() {
+		paths = loader.ListTags(workflowTags.ToSlice())
 	} else {
 		paths = loader.ListTemplates([]string{workflow.Template}, noValidate)
 	}
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ func parseWorkflowTemplate(workflow *workflows.WorkflowTemplate, preprocessor Pr
 			IssuesClient:    options.IssuesClient,
 			Interactsh:      options.Interactsh,
 			ProjectFile:     options.ProjectFile,
+			HostErrorsCache: options.HostErrorsCache,
 		}
 		template, err := Parse(path, preprocessor, opts)
 		if err != nil {

v2/pkg/types/interfaces.go

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
 )
 
 // JSONScalarToString converts an interface coming from json to string
@@ -60,6 +62,10 @@ func ToString(data interface{}) string {
 		return strconv.FormatUint(uint64(s), 10)
 	case []byte:
 		return string(s)
+	case severity.SeverityHolder:
+		return s.Severity.String()
+	case severity.Severity:
+		return s.String()
 	case fmt.Stringer:
 		return s.String()
 	case error:

v2/pkg/types/types.go

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package types
 
-import "github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags"
+import (
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/internal/severity"
+)
 
 // Options contains the configuration options for nuclei scanner.
 type Options struct {
@@ -18,8 +21,10 @@ type Options struct {
 	ExcludedTemplates goflags.StringSlice
 	// CustomHeaders is the list of custom global headers to send with each request.
 	CustomHeaders goflags.StringSlice
-	// Severity filters templates based on their severity and only run the matching ones.
+	// Vars is the list of custom global vars
-	Severity goflags.NormalizedStringSlice
+	Vars goflags.RuntimeMap
+	// Severities filters templates based on their severity and only run the matching ones.
+	Severities severity.Severities
 	// Author filters templates based on their author and only run the matching ones.
 	Author goflags.NormalizedStringSlice
 	// IncludeTags includes specified tags to be run even while being in denylist
@@ -32,10 +37,10 @@ type Options struct {
 	ProjectPath string
 	// InteractshURL is the URL for the interactsh server.
 	InteractshURL string
-	// Target is a single URL/Domain to scan using a template
+	// Target URLs/Domains to scan using a template
-	Target string
+	Targets goflags.StringSlice
-	// Targets specifies the targets to scan using templates.
+	// TargetsFilePath specifies the targets from a file to scan using templates.
-	Targets string
+	TargetsFilePath string
 	// Output is the file to write found results to.
 	Output string
 	// ProxyURL is the URL for the proxy server
@@ -60,6 +65,8 @@ type Options struct {
 	StatsInterval int
 	// MetricsPort is the port to show metrics on
 	MetricsPort int
+	// HostMaxErrors is the maximum number of errors allowed for a host
+	HostMaxErrors int
 	// BulkSize is the of targets analyzed in parallel for each template
 	BulkSize int
 	// TemplateThreads is the number of templates executed in parallel
@@ -143,4 +150,6 @@ type Options struct {
 	UpdateNuclei bool
 	// NoUpdateTemplates disables checking for nuclei templates updates
 	NoUpdateTemplates bool
+	// EnvironmentVariables enables support for environment variables
+	EnvironmentVariables bool
 }

v2/pkg/utils/utils.go

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package utils
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+)
+
+func IsBlank(value string) bool {
+	return strings.TrimSpace(value) == ""
+}
+
+func IsNotBlank(value string) bool {
+	return !IsBlank(value)
+}

v2/pkg/workflows/execute.go

@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ func (w *Workflow) runWorkflowStep(template *WorkflowTemplate, input string, res
 				}
 			}
 			if err != nil {
+				if w.Options.HostErrorsCache != nil {
+					if w.Options.HostErrorsCache.CheckError(err) {
+						w.Options.HostErrorsCache.MarkFailed(input)
+					}
+				}
 				if len(template.Executers) == 1 {
 					mainErr = err
 				} else {

v2/pkg/workflows/workflows.go

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package workflows
 
-import "github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
+import (
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/model"
+	"github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2/pkg/protocols"
+)
 
 // Workflow is a workflow to execute with chained requests, etc.
 type Workflow struct {
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ type WorkflowTemplate struct {
 	Template string `yaml:"template,omitempty"`
 	// description: |
 	//    Tags to run templates based on.
-	Tags string `yaml:"tags,omitempty"`
+	Tags model.StringSlice `yaml:"tags,omitempty"`
 	// description: |
 	//    Matchers perform name based matching to run subtemplates for a workflow.
 	Matchers []*Matcher `yaml:"matchers,omitempty"`
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ type WorkflowTemplate struct {
 	//    Subtemplates are ran if the `template` field Template matches.
 	Subtemplates []*WorkflowTemplate `yaml:"subtemplates,omitempty"`
 	// Executers perform the actual execution for the workflow template
-	Executers []*ProtocolExecuterPair
+	Executers []*ProtocolExecuterPair `yaml:"-"`
 }
 
 // ProtocolExecuterPair is a pair of protocol executer and its options