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Introducing WPScan – WordPress Security Scanner
From: Ryan Dewhurst <ryandewhurst () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:13:46 +0100
After creating the WordPress Brute Force Tool last weekend, I decided to create a bigger project out of it, called WPScan. WPScan is a black box WordPress Security Scanner written in Ruby which attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress installations. Its intended use it to be for security professionals or WordPress administrators to asses the security posture of their WordPress installations. The code base is Open Source and licensed under the GPLv3. Features include: Username enumeration (from ?author) Weak password cracking (multithreaded) Version enumeration (from generator meta tag) Vulnerability enumeration (based on version) Plugin enumeration (todo) Plugin vulnerability enumeration (based on version) (todo) Other miscellaneous checks Installation: WPScan requires two non native Ruby gems, typhoeus and xml-simple. It should work on both Ruby 1.8.x and 1.9.x. sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev sudo gem install –user-install typhoeus sudo gem install –user-install xml-simple (I developed WPScan on Backtrack5 Gnome 32bit, if installing on another OS, you may not need the –user-install option when installing the non native gems) Download: WPScan will be hosted on Google Code at http://code.google.com/p/wpscan/. You can download and start running WPScan ALPHA by checking out the SVN trunk. “svn checkout http://wpscan.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ wpscan-read-only” Example usage: Examples: ruby wpscan.rb –url www.example.com ruby wpscan.rb –url www.example.com –wordlist darkc0de.lst –threads 50 ruby wpscan.rb –url www.example.com –wordlist darkc0de.lst –username admin Contributions, feedback, comments are welcome. Happy Hacking! Ryan Dewhurst blog www.ethicalhack3r.co.uk projects www.dvwa.co.uk | www.webwordcount.com twitter www.twitter.com/ethicalhack3r _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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