Metasploit is the industry-standard exploitation framework. It’s maintained by Rapid7, used by pen testers and red teamers everywhere.

Metasploit systematizes exploitation. Instead of writing custom exploits for every vulnerability, Metasploit gives you a framework where exploit modules are pluggable. Find a vulnerability? There’s probably a Metasploit module for it. Load it, configure it, run it. Done.

You interact with Metasploit through msfconsole, the command-line console. Everything you do in Metasploit happens from this prompt.

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