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Wordpress User Enumeration

ID: wordpress-user-enum

Severity: info

Author: r3dg33k

Tags: wordpress

Description

Section titled “Description”

This template detects user enumeration in wordpress.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: wordpress-user-enum


info:
  name: Wordpress User Enumeration
  author: r3dg33k
  severity: info
  description: This template detects user enumeration in wordpress.
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
  tags: wordpress


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/?author=1"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - '(?i)Location: http(s|):\/\/[\w\.\-]+\/author\/\w+'
        part: header


      - type: status
        status:
          - 301


    extractors:
      - type: regex
        part: header
        regex:
          - 'author\/\w+'
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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/vulnerabilities/wordpress/wordpress-user-enum.yaml"

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