Plecost: Wordpress vulnerabilities finder

Plecost is a vulnerability fingerprinting and vulnerability finder for Wordpress blog engine.

There are a huge number of Wordpress around the world. Most of them are exposed to be attacked and be converted into a virus, malware or illegal porn provider, without the knowledge of the blog owner.

This project try to help sysadmins and blog's owners to make a bit secure their Wordpress.

This Plecost 3 version, add a lot of new features and fixes, like:

• Fixed a lot of bugs.
• New engine: without threads or any dependencies, but run more faster. We'll used python 3 asyncio and non-blocking connections. Also consume less memory. Incredible, right? :)
• Changed CVE update system and storage: Now Plecost get vulnerabilities directly from NIST and create a local SQLite data base with filtered information for Wordpress and theirs plugins.
• Wordpress vulnerabilities: Now Plecost also manage Wordpress Vulnerabilities (not only for the Plugins).
• Add local vulnerability database are queryable. You can consult the vulnerabilities for a concrete wordpress or plugins without, using the local database.

You can read entire list in CHANGELOG file.

Install Plecost is so easy:

$ python3 -m pip install plecost

Remember that Plecost3 only runs in Python 3.

Scan a web site si so simple:

$ plecost https://SITE.com

A bit complex scan: increasing verbosity exporting results in JSON format and XML:

JSON

$ plecost -v https://SITE.com -o results.json

XML

$ plecost -v https://SITE.com -o results.xml

No check WordPress version, only for plugins:

$ plecost -nc https://SITE.com 

Force scan, even if not Wordpress was detected:

$ plecost -f https://SITE.com

Display only the short banner:

$ plecost -nb https://SITE.com

List available wordlists:

$ plecost -nb -l 

// Plecost - Wordpress finger printer Tool - v1.0.0

Available word lists:
   1 - plugin_list_10.txt
   2 - plugin_list_100.txt
   3 - plugin_list_1000.txt
   4 - plugin_list_250.txt
   5 - plugin_list_50.txt
   6 - plugin_list_huge.txt

Select a wordlist in the list:

$ plecost -nb -w plugin_list_10.txt https://SITE.com

Increasing concurrency (USE THIS OPTION WITH CAUTION. CAN SHUTDOWN TESTED SITE!)

$ plecost --concurrency 10 https://SITE.com

Or...

$ plecost -c 10 https://SITE.com

For more options, consult the --help command:

$ plecost -h

New versions and vulnerabilities are released diary, you can upload the local database writing:

Updating vulnerability database:

$ plecost --update-cve

Updating plugin list:

$ plecost --update-plugins

Plecost has a local vulnerability database of Wordpress and wordpress plugins. You can consult it in off-line mode.

Listing all known plugins with vulnerabilities:

$ plecost -nb --show-plugins
  
// Plecost - Wordpress finger printer Tool - v1.0.0

[*] Plugins with vulnerabilities known:

  { 0 } - acobot_live_chat_%26_contact_form
  { 1 } - activehelper_livehelp_live_chat
  { 2 } - ad-manager
  { 3 } - alipay
  { 4 } - all-video-gallery
  { 5 } - all_in_one_wordpress_security_and_firewall
  { 6 } - another_wordpress_classifieds_plugin
  { 7 } - anyfont
  { 8 } - april%27s_super_functions_pack
  { 9 } - banner_effect_header
  { 10 } - bannerman
  { 11 } - bib2html
  { 12 } - bic_media_widget
  { 13 } - bird_feeder
  { 14 } - blogstand-smart-banner
  { 15 } - blue_wrench_video_widget
  ...
  
[*] Done!

Show vulnerabilities of a concrete plugin:

$ plecost -nb -vp google_analytics
          
// Plecost - Wordpress finger printer Tool - v1.0.0

[*] Associated CVEs for plugin 'google_analytics':

  { 0 } - CVE-2014-9174:

           Affected versions:

           <0> - 5.1.2
           <1> - 5.1.1
           <2> - 5.1
           <3> - 5.1.0

[*] Done!

Show details of a concrete CVE:

$ plecost -nb --cve CVE-2014-9174
          
// Plecost - Wordpress finger printer Tool - v1.0.0

[*] Detail for CVE 'CVE-2014-9174':

  Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Google Analytics by Yoast (google-analytics-for-wordpress) plugin before 5.1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Manually enter your UA code" (manual_ua_code_field) field in the General Settings.


[*] Done!

Getting the [100k top WordPress sites (https://hackertarget.com/100k-top-wordpress-powered-sites/) and getting aleatory one of them...

And... here more results of Plecost for real sites... :)

Plecost is available on:

• Kali Linux https://www.kali.org/
• BackTrack 5 https://www.backtrack-linux.org/
• BackBox https://www.backbox.org/

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• https://www.securitybydefault.com/2011/11/identificacion-de-vulnerabilidades-en.html
• https://www.clshack.it/plecost-a-wordpress-penetration-test-for-plugins
• https://securityetalii.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/auditando-wordpress-con-plecost/
• https://loginroot.diosdelared.com/?coment=6116
• https://ayudawordpress.com/securidad-en-wordpress/
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