diff --git a/example.conf.json b/example.conf.json
index ac4ef037..aeff03df 100644
--- a/example.conf.json
+++ b/example.conf.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
     "request_timeout": 60, // 1min
 
-    "connect_timeout": 5, // 5s
+    "connect_timeout": 10, // 10s
 
     "max_threads": 20
 }
diff --git a/lib/common/browser.rb b/lib/common/browser.rb
index 88e1aca5..6cbe37f2 100644
--- a/lib/common/browser.rb
+++ b/lib/common/browser.rb
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class Browser
     # 10 minutes, at this time the cache is cleaned before each scan. If this value is set to 0, the cache will be disabled
     @cache_ttl = 600
     @request_timeout = 60 # 60s
-    @connect_timeout = 5 # 5s
+    @connect_timeout = 10 # 10s
     @user_agent = "WPScan v#{WPSCAN_VERSION} (http://wpscan.org)"
   end
 
diff --git a/spec/lib/common/browser_spec.rb b/spec/lib/common/browser_spec.rb
index b8239ad7..470130a3 100644
--- a/spec/lib/common/browser_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/common/browser_spec.rb
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ describe Browser do
         headers: { 'User-Agent' => 'SomeUA' },
         ssl_verifypeer: false, ssl_verifyhost: 0,
         cookiejar: cookie_jar, cookiefile: cookie_jar,
-        timeout: 60, connecttimeout: 5,
+        timeout: 60, connecttimeout: 10,
         maxredirs: 3,
         referer: nil
       }
diff --git a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf.json b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf.json
index 146b4d22..ab5d88de 100644
--- a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf.json
+++ b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf.json
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
     "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0",
     "cache_ttl": 600,
     "request_timeout": 60,
-    "connect_timeout": 5,
+    "connect_timeout": 10,
     "max_threads": 20
 }
diff --git a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy.json b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy.json
index c14520ed..f60413db 100644
--- a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy.json
+++ b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy.json
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
     "proxy": "127.0.0.1:3038",
     "cache_ttl": 300,
     "request_timeout": 60,
-    "connect_timeout": 5
+    "connect_timeout": 10
 }
diff --git a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy_auth.json b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy_auth.json
index 87a7c8a0..898e8f3d 100644
--- a/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy_auth.json
+++ b/spec/samples/conf/browser.conf_proxy_auth.json
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
     "proxy_auth": "user:pass",
     "cache_ttl": 300,
     "request_timeout": 60,
-    "connect_timeout": 5
+    "connect_timeout": 10
 }