Joomscan is OWASP Joomla Vulnerability Scanner.



Joomla! is probably the most widely-used CMS out there due to its flexibility, user-friendlinesss, extensibility to name a few. So, watching its vulnerabilities and adding such vulnerabilities as KB to Joomla scanner takes ongoing activity.It will help web developers and web masters to help identify possible security weaknesses on their deployed Joomla! sites.



However, it is not up-to-date. The latest version of vulnerability database is on October 22, 2012 (at the time of this writing).



Step 1 :



sudo apt-get install libwww-perl libwww-mechanize-perl



Joomscan is written in Perl. Download it.



sudo -sH

cd /opt

wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/joomscan/joomscan/2012-03-10/joomscan-latest.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fjoomscan%2F%3Fsource%3Ddlp&ts=1368806935&use_mirror=ncu" -O joomscan-latest.zip



Step 2 :



Once downloaded, you need to extract the content.



sudo -sH

cd /opt

mkdir joomscan



cp joomscan-latest.zip /opt/joomscan/

rm joomscan-latest.zip



cd /opt/joomscan



unzip joomscan-latest.zip



Step 3 :



To run it.



sudo -sH

cd /opt/joomscan



perl joomscan.pl -u http://www.samiux.com



Step 4 :



To update it.



sudo -sH

cd /opt/joomscan



perl joomscan.pl update



That's all! See you.