wpscan Command Examples

WordPress vulnerability scanner. More information: https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.

• Update the vulnerability database:

wpscan --update

• Scan a WordPress website:

wpscan --url {{url}}

• Scan a WordPress website, using random user agents and passive detection:

wpscan --url {{url}} --stealthy

• Scan a WordPress website, checking for vulnerable plugins and specifying the path to the wp-content directory:

wpscan --url {{url}} --enumerate {{vp}} --wp-content-dir {{remote/path/to/wp-content}}

• Scan a WordPress website through a proxy:

wpscan --url {{url}} --proxy {{protocol://ip:port}} --proxy-auth {{username:password}}

• Perform user identifiers enumeration on a WordPress website:

wpscan --url {{url}} --enumerate {{u}}

• Execute a password guessing attack on a WordPress website:

wpscan --url {{url}} --usernames {{username|path/to/usernames.txt}} --passwords {{path/to/passwords.txt}} threads {{20}}

• Scan a WordPress website, collecting vulnerability data from the WPVulnDB (https://wpvulndb.com/):

wpscan --url {{url}} --api-token {{token}}