danielmiessler/SecLists

Language-specific web content-discovery wordlists

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#1280 opened on Jan 31, 2026

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Description

Describe the feature request:

Even though English is the most used language, some targets still use their own language in their application; for this reason, it's necessary to use wordlists adapted for this context.

The prospect of language-specific wordlists for things other than passwords seems interesting. But this might be difficult to develop without assistance from people that speak each language.

At least for web content-discovery, for every single line we should consider whether it comes from default filenames generated by software, or human-picked filenames. To generate each "final" language-specific wordlist we would combine the wordlist of default filenames with a wordlist of language-specific human-picked filenames, like we have done with the automatically-updating Discovery/Web-Content/combined_directories.txt wordlist.

We should also consider issue https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/issues/1264. Also related, issue #1210

Next steps:

  • I intend to open a pull request later

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Research direction
This issue proposes creating language specific wordlists for web content discovery, combining default filenames with human picked filenames per language. The idea references related issues #1264 and #1210, and the existing automatically updating combined directories.txt wordlist. To proceed, one should examine how the combined directories.txt is generated in the SecLists repository and consider which languages to target. Since the issue author intends to open a PR and there is an assignee, newcomers should coordinate or find a different unassigned issue.