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Akismet Anti-spam' Spam Protection Detection

ID: wordpress-akismet

Severity: info

Author: ricardomaia

Tags: tech,wordpress,wp-plugin,top-100,top-200

Description

Section titled “Description”

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: wordpress-akismet


info:
  name: Akismet Anti-spam' Spam Protection Detection
  author: ricardomaia
  severity: info
  reference:
    - https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
  metadata:
    plugin_namespace: akismet
    wpscan: https://wpscan.com/plugin/akismet
  tags: tech,wordpress,wp-plugin,top-100,top-200


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/wp-content/plugins/akismet/readme.txt"


    payloads:
      last_version: helpers/wordpress/plugins/akismet.txt


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: body
        internal: true
        name: internal_detected_version
        group: 1
        regex:
          - '(?i)Stable.tag:\s?([\w.]+)'


      - type: regex
        part: body
        name: detected_version
        group: 1
        regex:
          - '(?i)Stable.tag:\s?([\w.]+)'


    matchers-condition: or
    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        name: "outdated_version"
        dsl:
          - compare_versions(internal_detected_version, concat("< ", last_version))


      - type: regex
        part: body
        regex:
          - '(?i)Stable.tag:\s?([\w.]+)'
# digest: 4a0a00473045022034edc001686820ccda5323578d92ca8b2c019c72f4d15c07c810afaf55b2effe022100dfa0a6271e65dc6eadcb2c4944a02cc69037210358fff2ecb40c8fcb685ea89a:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/technologies/wordpress/plugins/akismet.yaml"

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