Wpscan

INSTALL

WPScan comes pre-installed on the following Linux distributions:

• BackTrack Linux since version 5 R1 in the /pentest/web/wpscan/ directory.
• SamuraiWTF
• BackBox Linux
• Pentoo

WPScan only supports Ruby => 1.9.

Installing on Debian/Ubuntu:

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

sudo gem install typhoeus nokogiri json

Installing on other nix: (not tested)

sudo gem install typhoeus nokogiri json

Installing on Mac OSX:

sudo gem install typhoeus nokogiri json

KNOWN ISSUES

• Typhoeus segmentation fault Update curl to at least v7.21 (you may have to install it from sources) See http://code.google.com/p/wpscan/issues/detail?id=81

• If you have one the following errors : "-bash: !t: event not found", "-bash: !u: event not found" It happens whith enumeration : just put the 't' or 'u' before the 'p!' : '-e tp!' instead of '-e p!t'

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
   p!       only vulnerable plugins
   t        timthumbs
 Multiple values are allowed : '-e tp' will enumerate timthumbs and plugins
 If no option is supplied, the default is 'upt'

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

--proxy  Supply a proxy in the format host:port or protocol://host:port (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

--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

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

Update WPScan...

ruby wpstools.rb --update

PROJECT HOME

www.wpscan.org

GIT REPOSITORY

https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan

ISSUES

https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues

SPONSOR

WPScan is sponsored by the RandomStorm Open Source Initiative.