htpw
wpscan
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htpw
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htpw: htaccess to protect Wordpress
You can see the project on GitHub: https://github.com/drego85/htpw
wpscan
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Is penetration testing on Wordpress common?
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.
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Penetration Testing
source: https://wpscan.com/wordpress-security-scanner
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Is Your WordPress Website Secured? Few Ways to Make It Bulletproof
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.
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Wordpress
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
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My web site can't be found by the geekflare security scanner anymore - seems like a good thing
You could also run your own scan. There are tools for it. For example, https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan
- What are you all doing to protect your internal network?
- Lets be smart and lawyer up. (Wordpress tool)
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A Beginner's Guide to Penetration Testing (Part 1)
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
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HTB - Paper (Writeup)
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.
What are some alternatives?
apache-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker - Apache Block Bad Bots, (Referer) Spam Referrer Blocker, Vulnerability Scanners, Malware, Adware, Ransomware, Malicious Sites, Wordpress Theme Detectors and Fail2Ban Jail for Repeat Offenders
SecLists - SecLists is the security tester's companion. It's a collection of multiple types of lists used during security assessments, collected in one place. List types include usernames, passwords, URLs, sensitive data patterns, fuzzing payloads, web shells, and many more.
htshells - Self contained htaccess shells and attacks
RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖
hugo-apache-headers - This is a Hugo module that can be included to create a .htaccess for apache
ModSecurity - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.
lamp-setup - LAMP server setup
vane - A GPL fork of the popular wordpress vulnerability scanner WPScan
WhatWeb - Next generation web scanner
Uniscan - Uniscan web vulnerability scanner
Sublist3r - Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers
SQLMap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool