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Yes.

People running these tools are so common that "automated reports" are routinely excluded from public bug bounty programs. The ratio of false findings to true findings is very high.



> The ratio of false findings to true findings is very high.

Had to deal with one of these canned reports a while back to satisfy some enterprise contract. Had a dozen or so JS "vulns" that were only applicable to a Node environment that were being reported for client-side use. We were not a Node shop. I couldn't believe we'd paid money for that garbage report.




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