WordPress-Coding-Standards VS wpscan

Is a Docker WordPress Environment focused on the development of WordPress plugins and themes, supports WP-CLI, phpMyAdmin, Xdebug and WordPress Coding Standards - WPCS.

PHP Code Sniffer helps us to achieve uniformity of code styles, we also can add other standards, like WordPress Coding Standars, some companies define their own standards etc. There are several ways to config that, but in this article, I will manage WordPress Coding Standards through Composer so we can manage these standards per project, using VS Code IDE.

WPCS's static code checks don't seem to recognize the vulnerability either, so I opened an issue: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards/issues/2217.

Are you a new developer in general or is WordPress new for you as a developer? In my experience it's best to practise and start with little plugins. Be sure to use a code-sniffer which enforces the WordPress coding standards.

The standard here is probably wpcs (https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress-Coding-Standards) which is a set of rules for the tool phpcs (https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer)

We use WordPress Coding Standards for PHP_CodeSniffer (WPCS) which uses Squizlabs' PHP codesniffer (phpcs) and beautifier & fixer (phpcbf) under the hood to scan and format the code.

You can also save yourself some time too by making use of the WordPress ruleset for PHPCS. I've integrated this into my code editor so it evaluates my code on-the-fly.

Or you could just run WPScan, a simple open source CLI Wordpress pen testing tool which will scan for 30k+ known WP vulnerabilities. It certainly isn't as comprehensive as hiring a Red Team to attack the site but it can provide baseline assurance that no gaping holes exist in your security config, This should be part of your security hardening workflow if is isnt already.

source: https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner

Finally, you can use a service like WPScan to fix WordPress issues by scanning your website for plugins and themes that have known security vulnerabilities.

WP is fun but likely has to be running older versions to exploit it, check out and run WPScan against it, https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan

You could also run your own scan. There are tools for it. For example, https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan

After our initial port scan, we might do more scans depending on what we find. In order to be as effective as possible, and to gather as much information as possible, pentesters are often running multiple scans simultaneously on a target. There are hundreds of tools out there for every service imaginable. Some of the tools worth mentioning are wpscan (https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner) for Wordpress sites or sqlmap (https://sqlmap.org/) for automatic SQL injection. For a more extensive list of tools check out https://0xcybery.github.io/ehtk/ or https://github.com/enaqx/awesome-pentest

So the website is using Wordpress. Having said that, we are going to use WPScan. But before that, make sure that you have already acquired your API token before using WPScan or you will never be able to utilize the scanner. You can get your own API token by signing up on their website.