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By Abhishek Ghosh May 16, 2017 12:55 am Updated on May 16, 2017

WordPress Security Test with Nmap NSE Scripts

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Periodic security checking, particularly on cloud server is important. Here is how to perform WordPress security test with Nmap NSE scripts. Previously we have some important guides like for brute force vulnerability checking(it is important to read before this guide in case you are completely new). In this guide we are showing quite basic things including installation, reading help of the scripts, running the scripts. NSE script is a big topic and actually it is beyond our capability to go in depth. But knowing and doing these basic operations will help to slowly learn the terminologies and tricks yourself. We are using a Ubuntu server running WordPress for this guide’s examples. Reconnaissance is crucial to a successful penetration test. Without proper reconnaissance, closing an exploit is going to be a guess work.

WordPress Security Test with Nmap NSE Scripts

 

WordPress Security Test with Nmap NSE Scripts

 

Installing Nmap is easy :

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sudo apt-get install nmap

You need to locate the nse scripts with locate utility and change directory to the script directory :

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locate *.nse

You’ll get output like :

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/usr/share/nmap/scripts/acarsd-info.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/address-info.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/afp-brute.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/afp-ls.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/afp-path-vuln.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/afp-serverinfo.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/afp-showmount.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/ajp-auth.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/ajp-brute.nse
/usr/share/nmap/scripts/ajp-headers.nse
...

Change directory to /usr/share/nmap/scripts/ and do a ls :

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cd /usr/share/nmap/scripts
ls

In case you want to find WordPress specific nse scrips you can pipe with grep :

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ls | grep wordpress

You’ll find three files at this moment :

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http-wordpress-brute.nse
http-wordpress-enum.nse
http-wordpress-users.nse

In order to read the help file, you have to run this kind of command :

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nmap -script-help http-wordpress-brute.nse

In most easy simple form you can run the script in this way :

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nmap -sV --script http-wordpress-brute 127.0.0.1

You’ll get this kind of output :

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Starting Nmap 7.01 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-05-16 05:48 IST

After a time you’ll get the full result :

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Nmap scan report for localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
Host is up (0.000019s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE  VERSION
22/tcp   open  ssh      OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4ubuntu2.2 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp   open  http     nginx
|_http-server-header: nginx
443/tcp  open  ssl/http nginx
|_http-server-header: nginx
| http-wordpress-brute:
|   Accounts: No valid accounts found
|_  Statistics: Performed 18633 guesses in 599 seconds, average tps: 31
3306/tcp open  mysql    MySQL 5.6.32-78.1-log
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
 
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 613.35 seconds

You can read the official documentation on Nmap WordPress NSE script related pages :

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https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-wordpress-enum.html
https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-wordpress-users.html
https://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/http-wordpress-brute.html

There are other user created scripts like you can see few on GitHub’s this repo :

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https://github.com/peter-hackertarget/nmap-nse-scripts

You’ll see installation of custom Nmap scripts for that repo is written. After test is done, do not keep the scripts on publicly available directory.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "WordPress Security Test with Nmap NSE Scripts," in The Customize Windows, May 16, 2017, January 29, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2017/05/wordpress-security-test-nmap-nse-scripts/.

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