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WPScan Package Description

WPScan is a black box WordPress
vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan remote WordPress
installations to find security issues.
Source: http://wpscan.org/

WPScan Homepage | Kali wpscan Repo


  • Author: The WPScan Team
  • License: Other

Tools included in the wpscan package

wpscan – WordPress vulnerability scanner
root@kali:~# wpscan  --help

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         \ \  /\  / /| |__) | (___   ___  __ _ _ __

          \ \/  \/ / |  ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \

           \  /\  /  | |     ____) | (__| (_| | | | |

            \/  \/   |_|    |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|



        WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team

                       Version 2.6

          Sponsored by Sucuri - https://sucuri.net

   @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, pvdl, @_FireFart_

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Help :



Some values are settable in a config file, see the example.conf.json



--update                            Update to the database to the latest version.

--url       | -u       The WordPress URL/domain to scan.

--force     | -f                    Forces WPScan to not check if the remote site is running WordPress.

--enumerate | -e [option(s)]        Enumeration.

  option :

    u        usernames from id 1 to 10

    u[10-20] usernames from id 10 to 20 (you must write [] chars)

    p        plugins

    vp       only vulnerable plugins

    ap       all plugins (can take a long time)

    tt       timthumbs

    t        themes

    vt       only vulnerable themes

    at       all themes (can take a long time)

  Multiple values are allowed : "-e tt,p" will enumerate timthumbs and plugins

  If no option is supplied, the default is "vt,tt,u,vp"



--exclude-content-based ""

                                    Used with the enumeration option,
will exclude all occurrences based on the regexp or string supplied.

                                    You do not need to provide the
regexp delimiters, but you must write the quotes (simple or double).

--config-file  | -c   Use the specified config file, see the example.conf.json.

--user-agent   | -a    Use the specified User-Agent.

--cookie                   String to read cookies from.

--random-agent | -r                 Use a random User-Agent.

--follow-redirection                If the target url has a redirection,
it will be followed without asking if you wanted to do so or not

--batch                             Never ask for user input, use the default behaviour.

--no-color                          Do not use colors in the output.

--wp-content-dir   WPScan try to find the content
directory (ie wp-content) by scanning the index page, however you can
specified it.

                                    Subdirectories are allowed.

--wp-plugins-dir   Same thing than --wp-content-dir but for the plugins directory.

                                    If not supplied, WPScan will use wp-content-dir/plugins. Subdirectories are allowed

--proxy <[protocol://]host:port>    Supply a proxy. HTTP, SOCKS4 SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 are supported.

                                    If no protocol is given (format host:port), HTTP will be used.

--proxy-auth    Supply the proxy login credentials.

--basic-auth    Set the HTTP Basic authentication.

--wordlist | -w          Supply a wordlist for the password brute forcer.

--username | -U          Only brute force the supplied username.

--usernames          Only brute force the usernames from the file.

--threads  | -t The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests.

--cache-ttl             Typhoeus cache TTL.

--request-timeout Request Timeout.

--connect-timeout Connect Timeout.

--max-threads         Maximum Threads.

--help     | -h                     This help screen.

--verbose  | -v                     Verbose output.

--version                           Output the current version and exit.





Examples :



-Further help ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --help



-Do 'non-intrusive' checks ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com



-Do wordlist password brute force on enumerated users using 50 threads ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --wordlist darkc0de.lst --threads 50



-Do wordlist password brute force on the 'admin' username only ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --wordlist darkc0de.lst --username admin



-Enumerate installed plugins ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --enumerate p



-Enumerate installed themes ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --enumerate t



-Enumerate users ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --enumerate u



-Enumerate installed timthumbs ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --enumerate tt



-Use a HTTP proxy ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --proxy 127.0.0.1:8118



-Use a SOCKS5 proxy ... (cURL >= v7.21.7 needed)

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --proxy socks5://127.0.0.1:9000



-Use custom content directory ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb -u www.example.com --wp-content-dir custom-content



-Use custom plugins directory ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb -u www.example.com --wp-plugins-dir wp-content/custom-plugins



-Update the DB ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --update



-Debug output ...

ruby ./wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --debug-output 2>debug.log



See README for further information.

WPScan Usage Example

Scan a target WordPress URL and enumerate any plugins that are installed:


root@kali:~# wpscan --url http://wordpress.local --enumerate p

_______________________________________________________________

        __          _______   _____

        \ \        / /  __ \ / ____|

         \ \  /\  / /| |__) | (___   ___  __ _ _ __

          \ \/  \/ / |  ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \

           \  /\  /  | |     ____) | (__| (_| | | | |

            \/  \/   |_|    |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|



        WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team

                       Version 2.6

          Sponsored by Sucuri - https://sucuri.net

   @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, pvdl, @_FireFart_

_______________________________________________________________



[+] URL: http://wordpress.local/

[+] Started: Mon Jan 12 14:07:40 2015



[+] robots.txt available under: 'http://wordpress.local/robots.txt'

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/search

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/support/search.php

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/extend/plugins/search.php

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/plugins/search.php

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/extend/themes/search.php

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/themes/search.php

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/support/rss

[+] Interesting entry from robots.txt: http://wordpress.local/archive/

[+] Interesting header: SERVER: nginx

[+] Interesting header: X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN

[+] Interesting header: X-NC: HIT lax 249

[+] XML-RPC Interface available under: http://wordpress.local/xmlrpc.php



[+] WordPress version 4.2-alpha-31168 identified from rss generator



[+] Enumerating installed plugins  ...



   Time: 00:00:35 <======================================================> (2166 / 2166) 100.00% Time: 00:00:35



[+] We found 2166 plugins:

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