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Wordpress Pingback Locator

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Disclosed
N/A
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will scan for wordpress sites with the Pingback
API enabled. By interfacing with the API an attacker can cause
the wordpress site to port scan an external target and return
results. Refer to the wordpress_pingback_portscanner module.
This issue was fixed in wordpress 3.5.1

Authors

Thomas McCarthy "smilingraccoon" [email protected]
Brandon McCann "zeknox" [email protected]
Christian Mehlmauer [email protected]

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use auxiliary/scanner/http/wordpress_pingback_access
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_pingback_access) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_pingback_access) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_pingback_access) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(wordpress_pingback_access) > run
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