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Metasploit

byRapid7
in Adversarial Exposure Validation
4.3

Overview

Product Information on Metasploit

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Metasploit?

Metasploit is a software developed for penetration testing, security research, and vulnerability assessment. The software allows users to identify, validate, and exploit security vulnerabilities in networks and systems by providing a library of exploits, payloads, and auxiliary modules. Metasploit is used to simulate real-world attacks on infrastructure to enable security professionals to test the effectiveness of security measures and policies. The software supports automation, scripting, and integration with other security tools, facilitating efficient workflows in security testing and reporting. It addresses the business problem of identifying potential security weaknesses before they can be exploited by malicious actors.

Metasploit Pricing

Metasploit software uses a tiered pricing model, offering both a free open-source version and paid professional editions. The professional editions are generally licensed on a per user per year basis, providing additional features and support compared to the free version.

Overall experience with Metasploit

IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
500M - 1B USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“Positive Experience Highlighted, But Steep Learning Curve Noted in Toolkit”

5.0
Sep 10, 2025
It's one of the best pentesting toolkits out there. My experience has been very positive with it!
AppSec Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Metasploit: A Powerful Tool for Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Verification”

3.0
Jan 7, 2025
Metasploit is an extremely powerful and potentially dangerous tool that, once learned, is capable of facilitating penetration testing and vulnerability discovery. Capability is mature and seasoned. It has facilitated internal penetration testing and vulnerability verification.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Rapid7, Inc. aims to create a safer digital world by simplifying and making cybersecurity simpler and more accessible. Rapid7 empowers security professionals worldwide to manage a modern attack surface through its technology, research, and broad, strategic expertise. Rapid7’s comprehensive security solutions help over 11,000 customers unite cloud risk management with threat detection and response to reduce attack surfaces and eliminate threats quickly and precisely.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2000
Head office location
Boston, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
500M-1B USD
Website
www.rapid7.com

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Metasploit Likes & Dislikes

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Updated regularly. The documentation is very nice and handy if there ever are any issues.

Like

It is extremely powerful and has many features that facilitate vulnerability exploitation, It gives you up to date databases of exploits, payloads, encoding methods, and scanners for facilitated vulnerability exploitation. Makes the world of vulnerability exploitation a little more manageable.

Like

Regularly updated databases of exploits, payloads, and modular architecture, easy integration with other tools like Nessus, Nmap. Best support and documentation which helps us to troubleshoot.

Dislike

The learning curve can be pretty high.

Dislike

There is a very steep learning curve to using Metasploit not only correctly, but safely. Without proper training damage can be done to systems not targeted correctly.

Dislike

Challenging learning process for beginners.

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4.3

(94 Ratings)

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  • IT SECURITY & RISK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Positive Experience Highlighted, But Steep Learning Curve Noted in Toolkit

    5.0
    Sep 10, 2025
    It's one of the best pentesting toolkits out there. My experience has been very positive with it!
  • LEAD SECURITY ENGINEER PRODUCT MANAGEMEN
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Extensive Exploit Database and Integration Make Metasploit Valuable Yet Challenging

    4.0
    Jul 18, 2025
    Our experience with open-source Metasploit has been remarkably positive.It is the best tool in our penetration testing toolkit.
  • DIRECTOR, IT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMEN
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Maximizing Efficiency with Metasploit: Integrations and Automation

    4.0
    Jan 7, 2025
    We use Metasploit internally as the go to offsec solution as part of internal pentesting. We use this primarily in conkunction with scripting/automation of penetration tests against publicly known/disclosed vulnerabilities. We have so far codified the majority of workflows and integrated with JIRA so that we can reduce the cycle time for new releases of software and penetration tests against applicationa and infrastructure.
  • DIRECTOR OF NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Powerful Platform with an Expansive Exploit Database for Various OS

    4.0
    Jan 13, 2025
    Simple to use and comes with a large exploit database for multiple OS.
  • ENGINEERING MANAGER
    1B-10B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Rapid7 : A Powerful Vulnerability Management Tool with Great Insights

    5.0
    Jan 7, 2025
    My experience with Rapid7 has been highly positive; it excels as a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability management and threat detection tool, Its intuitive dashboards, robust report features and ability to integrate with existing workflows make it highly effectivity security team's
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