diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8b75034..81a0e46 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     - Added response time logging and filtering
     - Added a CLI flag to specify TLS SNI value
     - Added full line colors
+    - Added 500 Internal Server Error to list of status codes matched by default
   - Changed
     - Fixed an issue where output file was created regardless of `-or`
     - Fixed an issue where output (often a lot of it) would be printed after entering interactive mode
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index decd646..5e0e9a1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS:
   -v                  Verbose output, printing full URL and redirect location (if any) with the results. (default: false)
 
 MATCHER OPTIONS:
-  -mc                 Match HTTP status codes, or "all" for everything. (default: 200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405)
+  -mc                 Match HTTP status codes, or "all" for everything. (default: 200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405,500)
   -ml                 Match amount of lines in response
   -mr                 Match regexp
   -ms                 Match HTTP response size
diff --git a/ffufrc.example b/ffufrc.example
index eb3d05b..fe54256 100644
--- a/ffufrc.example
+++ b/ffufrc.example
@@ -76,6 +76,6 @@
     lines = ""
     regexp = ""
     size = ""
-    status = "200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405"
+    status = "200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405,500"
     time = ""
     words = ""
diff --git a/pkg/ffuf/optionsparser.go b/pkg/ffuf/optionsparser.go
index 272c093..dc222b5 100644
--- a/pkg/ffuf/optionsparser.go
+++ b/pkg/ffuf/optionsparser.go
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ func NewConfigOptions() *ConfigOptions {
 	c.Matcher.Lines = ""
 	c.Matcher.Regexp = ""
 	c.Matcher.Size = ""
-	c.Matcher.Status = "200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405"
+	c.Matcher.Status = "200,204,301,302,307,401,403,405,500"
 	c.Matcher.Time = ""
 	c.Matcher.Words = ""
 	c.Output.DebugLog = ""