WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner.

INSTALL
WPScan comes pre-installed on the following Linux distributions:

• BackBox Linux
• Kali Linux
• Pentoo
• SamuraiWTF
• BlackArch

On macOS WPScan is packaged by Homebrew as wpscan.
Windows is not supported
We suggest you use the official Docker image from https://hub.docker.com/r/wpscanteam/wpscan/ to avoid installation problems.

DOCKER
Pull the repo with docker pull wpscanteam/wpscan

Start WPScan

docker run -it --rm wpscanteam/wpscan -u https://yourblog.com [options]

For the available Options, please see https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan#wpscan-arguments
If you run the git version of wpscan we included some binstubs in ./bin for easier start of wpscan.

Examples
Mount a local wordlist to the docker container and start a bruteforce attack for user admin

docker run -it --rm -v ~/wordlists:/wordlists wpscanteam/wpscan --url https://yourblog.com --wordlist /wordlists/crackstation.txt --username admin

(This mounts the host directory ~/wordlists to the container in the path /wordlists)
Use logfile option

# the file must exist prior to starting the container, otherwise docker will create a directory with the filename
 touch ~/FILENAME
 docker run -it --rm -v ~/FILENAME:/wpscan/output.txt wpscanteam/wpscan --url https://yourblog.com --log /wpscan/output.txt

Published on https://hub.docker.com/r/wpscanteam/wpscan/

Manual install

Prerequisites

• Ruby >= 2.1.9 - Recommended: 2.4.1
• Curl >= 7.21 - Recommended: latest - FYI the 7.29 has a segfault
• RubyGems - Recommended: latest
• Git

Installing dependencies on Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev ruby-dev build-essential libgmp-dev zlib1g-dev

Installing dependencies on Debian

sudo apt-get install gcc git ruby ruby-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev make zlib1g-dev

Installing dependencies on Fedora

sudo dnf install gcc ruby-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libcurl-devel patch rpm-build

Installing dependencies on Arch Linux

pacman -Syu ruby
 pacman -Syu libyaml

Installing dependencies on macOS
Apple Xcode, Command Line Tools and the libffi are needed (to be able to install the FFI gem), See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17775115/cant-setup-ruby-environment-installing-fii-gem-error

Installing with RVM (recommended when doing a manual install)
If you are using GNOME Terminal, there are some steps required before executing the commands. See here for more information: https://rvm.io/integration/gnome-terminal#integrating-rvm-with-gnome-terminal

# Install all prerequisites for your OS (look above)
 cd ~
 curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg --import -
 curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
 source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
 echo "source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm" >> ~/.bashrc
 rvm install 2.4.1
 rvm use 2.4.1 --default
 echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc
 git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git
 cd wpscan
 gem install bundler
 bundle install --without test

Installing manually (not recommended)

git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git
 cd wpscan
 sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test

WPSCAN ARGUMENTS

--update                            Update the database to the latest version.
 --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
     vp       only vulnerable plugins
     ap       all plugins (can take a long time)
     tt       timthumbs
     t        themes
     vt       only vulnerable themes
     at       all themes (can take a long time)
   Multiple values are allowed : "-e tt,p" will enumerate timthumbs and plugins
   If no option is supplied, the default is "vt,tt,u,vp"
 
 --exclude-content-based "<regexp or string>"
                                     Used with the enumeration option, will exclude all occurrences based on the regexp or string supplied.
                                     You do not need to provide the regexp delimiters, but you must write the quotes (simple or double).
 --config-file  | -c <config file>   Use the specified config file, see the example.conf.json.
 --user-agent   | -a <User-Agent>    Use the specified User-Agent.
 --cookie <string>                   String to read cookies from.
 --random-agent | -r                 Use a random User-Agent.
 --follow-redirection                If the target url has a redirection, it will be followed without asking if you wanted to do so or not
 --batch                             Never ask for user input, use the default behaviour.
 --no-color                          Do not use colors in the output.
 --log [filename]                    Creates a log.txt file with WPScan's output if no filename is supplied. Otherwise the filename is used for logging.
 --no-banner                         Prevents the WPScan banner from being displayed.
 --disable-accept-header             Prevents WPScan sending the Accept HTTP header.
 --disable-referer                   Prevents setting the Referer header.
 --disable-tls-checks                Disables SSL/TLS certificate verification.
 --wp-content-dir <wp content dir>   WPScan try to find the content directory (ie wp-content) by scanning the index page, however you can specify it.
                                     Subdirectories are allowed.
 --wp-plugins-dir <wp plugins dir>   Same thing than --wp-content-dir but for the plugins directory.
                                     If not supplied, WPScan will use wp-content-dir/plugins. Subdirectories are allowed
 --proxy <[protocol://]host:port>    Supply a proxy. HTTP, SOCKS4 SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 are supported.
                                     If no protocol is given (format host:port), HTTP will be used.
 --proxy-auth <username:password>    Supply the proxy login credentials.
 --basic-auth <username:password>    Set the HTTP Basic authentication.
 --wordlist | -w <wordlist>          Supply a wordlist for the password brute forcer.
                                     If the "-" option is supplied, the wordlist is expected via STDIN.
 --username | -U <username>          Only brute force the supplied username.
 --usernames     <path-to-file>      Only brute force the usernames from the file.
 --cache-dir       <cache-directory> Set the cache directory.
 --cache-ttl       <cache-ttl>       Typhoeus cache TTL.
 --request-timeout <request-timeout> Request Timeout.
 --connect-timeout <connect-timeout> Connect Timeout.
 --threads  | -t <number of threads> The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests.
 --max-threads     <max-threads>     Maximum Threads.
 --throttle        <milliseconds>    Milliseconds to wait before doing another web request. If used, the --threads should be set to 1.
 --help     | -h                     This help screen.
 --verbose  | -v                     Verbose output.
 --version                           Output the current version and exit.

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 enumerated users using STDIN as the wordlist...

crunch 5 13 -f charset.lst mixalpha | ruby wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --wordlist -

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

Use custom content directory...

ruby wpscan.rb -u www.example.com --wp-content-dir custom-content

Update WPScan's databases...

ruby wpscan.rb --update

Debug output...

ruby wpscan.rb --url www.example.com --debug-output 2>debug.log