Meanings
plural sploits
- informalcomputingexploit (program or technique that exploits a vulnerability in other software)
In other words, some script-kiddie blindly launching a “sploit” to a range of addresses does not exactly embody the essence of this category.
2007, Thomas W. Shinder, Thorsten Behrens, The Best Damn Firewall Book Period1 more example
Other exploit creators were less careful, turning out garbage sploits that sometimes wouldn't work at all or would even crash a target service most of the time.
2006, Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded
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sploit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sploit
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