From c0c14faad12557e7252a438e0ff4dc935509e358 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Mehlmauer <firefart@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:55:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] check if plugin directory exists and warn the user

---
 lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb | 4 ++++
 wpscan.rb               | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb b/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb
index 8e7ab549..934f588e 100644
--- a/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb
+++ b/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb
@@ -109,6 +109,10 @@ class WpTarget
     @wp_plugins_dir
   end
 
+  def wp_plugins_dir_exists?
+    Browser.instance.get(@uri.merge(wp_plugins_dir)).code != 404
+  end
+
   def has_debug_log?
     # We only get the first 700 bytes of the file to avoid loading huge file (like 2Go)
     response_body = Browser.instance.get(debug_log_url(), :headers => {"range" => "bytes=0-700"}).body
diff --git a/wpscan.rb b/wpscan.rb
index 6ebebfcb..4d7c6897 100755
--- a/wpscan.rb
+++ b/wpscan.rb
@@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ begin
     raise "The wp_content_dir has not been found, please supply it with --wp-content-dir"
   end
 
+  unless wp_target.wp_plugins_dir_exists?
+    puts "The plugins directory '#{wp_target.wp_plugins_dir}' does not exist."
+    puts "You can specify one per command line option (don't forget to include the wp-content directory if needed)"
+    puts "Continue? [y/n]"
+    unless Readline.readline =~ /^y/i
+      exit
+    end
+  end
+
   # Output runtime data
   start_time = Time.now
   puts "| URL: #{wp_target.url}"