WPSCAN to find WORDPRESS Vulnerabilities TUTORIAL
If you need a tutorial on how to install WPScan on your Linux Box (incase you are not using Kali linux).
WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan remote WordPress installations to find security issues. WPSCAN is a WORDPRESS vulenrability assessment tool and very usefull when penetration testing a wordpress website . WPSCAN comes preloaded in KALI Linux and easy to use when looking to find out the vulnerbilities in the wordpress website .
WPSCAN : Find WORDPRESS Vulnerabilities
WPSCAN comes with the following Options :
root@kali:~# wpscan --help _______________________________________________________________ __ _______ _____ \ \ / / __ \ / ____| \ \ /\ / /| |__) | (___ ___ __ _ _ __ \ \/ \/ / | ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \ \ /\ / | | ____) | (__| (_| | | | | \/ \/ |_| |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|
WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team Version 2.6 Sponsored by Sucuri - https://sucuri.net @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, pvdl, @_FireFart_ _______________________________________________________________
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 <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 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 "<regexp or string>" 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 <config file> Use the specified config file, see the example.conf.json. --user-agent | -a <User-Agent> Use the specified User-Agent. --cookie <String> 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 <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 <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 <username:password> Supply the proxy login credentials. --basic-auth <username:password> Set the HTTP Basic authentication. --wordlist | -w <wordlist> Supply a wordlist for the password brute forcer. --username | -U <username> Only brute force the supplied username. --usernames <path-to-file> Only brute force the usernames from the file. --threads | -t <number of threads> The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests. --cache-ttl <cache-ttl> Typhoeus cache TTL. --request-timeout <request-timeout> Request Timeout. --connect-timeout <connect-timeout> Connect Timeout. --max-threads <max-threads> Maximum Threads. --help | -h This help screen. --verbose | -v Verbose output. --version Output the current version and exit.
Well thats a lots of Options and might be confusing if you are a newbie to Wordress Penetration Testing .
Here is an easy example to start a scan on target wordpress website / Blog
wpscan --url www.example.com
Here are some more examples that might help you in getting started with the Vulnerability Scans on your target wordpress blogs :
Enumerate users
wpscan --url www.example.com --enumerate u
Enumerate installed themes
wpscan --url www.example.com --enumerate t
Enumerate installed plugins to find WordPress Vulnerabilities
wpscan --url www.example.com --enumerate p
Well these are some of the example scans . There is a lot of other options that can be used with WPScan and much more complex scans can be conducted with WPScan . Here is and example of scanning custom directories .
Scanning for custom content directory
wpscan -u www.example.com --wp-content-dir custom-content
WPScan Usage Example to find wordpress vulnerabilities
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/
[+] 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 29849 [+] XML-RPC Interface available under: http://wordpress.local/xmlrpc.php
[+] WordPress version 4.2-alpha-31168 identified from rss generator
[+] Enumerating installed plugins
[+] We found 2166 plugins: ...
Please comment if you need further guidance with Scanning with WPScan .