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Wordpress Tools - A collection of tools for checking wordpress installations (remote and local) to make the setup more secure as well as to discover vulnerabilities.

Checks

• Wordpress version (info about deprecation, link to newest, etc)
• Themes and plugins
• admin user (dictionary attack)
• get user from entries and check pwd with dictionary

Out of scope currently

• Check other software installed
• Nmap: check for services on other ports
• Social engineering (info collection: domain reg, dns, etc)

wp-check-local checks

• /var/www/<wp_install>: permissions (no write, users, etc)
• wp-admin accessible? permissions? renamed?
• unique db, users?

Various

Dependencies

see dependencies.txt

• Requests: HTTP for Humans (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html)

Related

• http://code.google.com/p/wpscan (http://code.google.com/p/wpscan/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fdata)

References

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3332764

Components

• Scanner: ** gather info about wordpress version, themes, plugins, etc ** check for vulnerabilities, etc