Wordpress for Pentesting and Bug Bounties 2025

Perform technology detection with Webalizer to confirm whether a target runs WordPress, identify CMS versions such as 6.3 and 6.2.2, and assess potential entry points across subdomains.

Execute technology detection on target domains with the http command line tool to confirm WordPress across subdomains via http status codes.

Explore bug bounty asset discovery and technology detection for WordPress-focused pentesting. Enumerate subdomains with sub finder, run http status and technology detection, and identify WordPress targets to report vulnerabilities.

Explore fuzzing techniques to detect WordPress deployments by testing endpoints like wp-json and wp-login.php, validating WordPress via license.txt and login pages, and identifying WordPress targets for bug bounties.

Explore WordPress vulnerabilities that allow registration and installation via wp-admin/install.php; use Wayback URLs to uncover historic endpoints, enabling account takeover and bug bounty reporting.

Identify WordPress-specific bugs by examining login endpoints and misconfigurations, such as register-as-admin vulnerabilities. Prevent attackers from registering as admins and taking control of sensitive site actions.

Learn to use a bash script and Wayback URLs to crawl and collect WordPress endpoints, organize results, and grep for wp admin and install.php endpoints to reveal potential vulnerabilities.

Identify WordPress targets for security testing by mining bug bounty program data from GitHub, compiling a domain list, and validating WordPress sites with wp-json, wp-login, and WordPress signals.

Identify WordPress instances using Nuclei templates, loading the WordPress detect template to scan targets, endpoints, and bug bounty programs for WordPress installations.

Learn how WordPress debug logs can leak sensitive information like usernames, passwords, tokens, and paths when debugging is enabled, and how to identify the debug.log endpoint for bug bounty assessments.

Identify WordPress RDF user enumeration by probing feed.rdf endpoints to reveal lists of existing users, using status codes and real-world bug bounty examples to illustrate the vulnerability.

Identify directory listing exposure in WordPress by examining wp includes endpoints, uncover leaked files and hard-coded credentials, and use grep.app and GitHub searches to assess sensitive information for bug bounties.

Explore how WordPress full path disclosure arises from directory listing and exposure of PHP endpoints like RSS functions dot PHP, enabling attackers to access sensitive server paths.

Identify xml-rpc vulnerabilities in WordPress by testing endpoint methods and pingback, using Burp Suite to assess post requests, DoS potential, and brute-force login risks.

Learn how to perform a WordPress brute force attempt using Burp Suite and Intruder, testing admin login with common passwords, payloads, and length analysis to identify a successful login.

Craft a professional bug bounty report using templates and target-specific data. Include steps to reproduce for issues like no rate limit and submit to the target.

Use WPScan to perform WordPress security analysis on a target site, enumerating themes, plugins, and versions to identify vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Explore how to assess WordPress themes and plugins with WPScan, identify vulnerabilities in the Social Warfare plugin, and understand risks like unauthenticated arbitrary settings update and remote code execution.

Demonstrates crafting and hosting a payload to exploit a WordPress RCE, querying a vulnerable endpoint to read /etc/passwd and access other files.

Develop a custom security automation script to enumerate WordPress plugins and themes from the official repository, save and sort names, and fuzz endpoints to detect installed components via readme.txt.

Fuzz WordPress to uncover security vulnerabilities by sending untrusted data to endpoints and parameters with Puff, observing errors and sensitive logs for disclosure.

Master advanced web fuzzing with a url and word-list to enumerate wordpress plugins, then remove spaces in wp plugins txt to reveal more plugins than the industry tool.

Uncover a critical P1 vulnerability in WordPress plugin WP Advanced Search 3.3.3, demonstrating remote code execution through fuzzing and plugin enumeration with WPScan.

Learn to identify WordPress sites from a large target list using http technology detection, then assess plugins and themes for security testing and bug bounty readiness.

Identify popular WordPress plugins, download and install a chosen plugin locally, then explore common developer mistakes to test for vulnerabilities such as XSS.

Discover essential resources for bug bounty hunters, including Patch Stack for reporting WordPress plugin vulnerabilities, earning bounties, and obtaining CVEs, with up-to-date vulnerability reports and search tools.

Explore the next steps after completing the course by checking out additional pentesting and bug bounty courses that add value and skills to your profile.