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# Task 10 - NSE Scripts  Overview

## Task 10 <mark style="color:orange;background-color:orange;">NSE Scripts</mark> Overview

### What language are NSE scripts written in?

> NSE Scripts are written in the Lua programming language, and can be used to do a variety of things: from scanning for vulnerabilities, to automating exploits for them.

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### Which category of scripts would be a very bad idea to run in a production environment?

It's not a good idea to (even potentially) break services in production! :smile:

> intrusive:- Not safe: likely to affect the target

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