Re: Introducing WPScan – WordPress Security Scanne r

Ryan Dewhurst <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications
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Hi Veronica,

Thanks for this, I shall take a look into it!

Thanks!

Ryan Dewhurst

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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Veronica <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!,
>
>> WPScan is a black box WordPress Security Scanner written in Ruby which
>> attempts to find known security weaknesses within WordPress
>> installations.
> I tried it minutes ago, nice tool!
>
>> Features include:
>>
>> Username enumeration (from ?author)
> I tried it with some WordPress based websites and it is not showing
> the usernames but the display name. Did you wanted to get the display
> name?
> If you expected to get the username, you can find it by parsing the
> head section of the html source code, the username is usually inside
> an href tag preceded by '/author/'.
>
> Hope it's useful!
>
> Verónica
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