WPScan - Black box WordPress vulnerability scanner. | Turorial Grapich Design and Blog Design

WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner.

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INSTALL

WPScan comes pre-installed on the following Linux distributions:

BackBox Linux
BackTrack Linux (outdated WPScan installed, update needed)
Pentoo
SamuraiWTF

Prerequisites:

Windows not supported
Ruby => 1.9
RubyGems
Git

Installing on Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libopenssl-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev ruby-dev

git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git

cd wpscan

sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

Installing on Fedora:

sudo yum install libcurl-devel

git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git

cd wpscan

sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

Installing on Mac OSX:

git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git

cd wpscan

sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

KNOWN ISSUES

Typhoeus segmentation fault Update curl to at least v7.21 (may have to install from source) See http://code.google.com/p/wpscan/issues/detail?id=81
Proxy not working Update cURL to version => 7.21.7 (may have to install from source).
Installation from sources :
- Grab the sources from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
- Decompress the archive
- Open the folder with the extracted files
- Run ./configure
- Run make
- Run sudo make install
- Run sudo ldconfig
cannot load such file -- readline
Run sudo aptitude install libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev
Then, open the directory of readline gem (you have to locate it first)
```
      
        cd ~/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p180/ext/readline
        ruby extconf.rb
        make
        make install
      
    
```
See here for more details

WPSCAN ARGUMENTS

--url   | -u <target url>  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
    vp       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 '<regexp or string>'  Used with the enumeration option, will exclude all occurence 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 <config file> Use the specified config file

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

--proxy <[protocol://]host:port>  Supply a proxy (will override the one from conf/browser.conf.json).
                                        HTTP, SOCKS4 SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 are supported. If no protocol is given (format host:port), HTTP will be used

--proxy-auth <username:password>  Supply the proxy login credentials (will override the one from conf/browser.conf.json).

--basic-auth <username:password>  Set the HTTP basic authentification

--wordlist | -w <wordlist>  Supply a wordlist for the password bruter and do the brute.

--threads  | -t <number of threads>  The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests. (will override the value from conf/browser.conf.json)

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

--help     | -h This help screen.

--verbose  | -v Verbose output.

WPSCAN EXAMPLES

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

Run all enumeration tools...

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

Update WPScan...

ruby wpscan.rb --update

WPSTOOLS ARGUMENTS

--help    | -h   This help screen.
--Verbose | -v   Verbose output.
--update  | -u   Update to the latest revision.
--generate_plugin_list [number of pages]  Generate a new data/plugins.txt file. (supply number of *pages* to parse, default : 150)
--gpl  Alias for --generate_plugin_list

WPSTOOLS EXAMPLES

Generate a new 'most popular' plugin list, up to 150 pages...

ruby wpstools.rb --generate_plugin_list 150

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