Vane is a GPL fork of the now non-free popular WordPress vulnerability scanner WPScan.

INSTALL

Prerequisites

• Windows not supported
• Ruby => 1.9
• RubyGems
• Git

Installing on Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libopenssl-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev ruby-dev
git clone https://github.com/delvelabs/vane.git
cd vane
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

Installing on Fedora

sudo yum install libcurl-devel
git clone https://github.com/delvelabs/vane.git
cd vane
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

Installing on Archlinux

pacman -Sy ruby
pacman -Sy libyaml

git clone https://github.com/delvelabs/vane.git
cd vane
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

gem install typhoeus
gem install nokogiri

Installing on Mac OS X

git clone https://github.com/delvelabs/vane.git
cd vane
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without test development

KNOWN ISSUES

Typhoeus segmentation fault
Update cURL to version => 7.21 (may have to install from source) See http://code.google.com/p/vane/issues/detail?id=81


Proxy not working
Update cURL to version => 7.21.7 (may have to install from source).
Installation from sources :

• Grab the sources from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
• Decompress the archive
• Open the folder with the extracted files
• Run ./configure
• Run make
• Run sudo make install
• Run sudo ldconfig

cannot load such file -- readline
Run sudo aptitude install libreadline5-dev libncurses5-dev
Then, open the directory of the readline gem (you have to locate it)

cd ~/.rvm/src/ruby-1.9.2-p180/ext/readline
ruby extconf.rb
make
make install

See http://vvv.tobiassjosten.net/ruby-on-rails/fixing-readline-for-the-ruby-on-rails-console/ for more details


VANE ARGUMENTS
--update Update to the latest revision
--url | -u The WordPress URL/domain to scan.
--force | -f Forces WPScan to not check if the remote site is running WordPress.
--enumerate | -e [option(s)] Enumeration. option : u usernames from id 1 to 10 u[10-20] usernames from id 10 to 20 (you must write [] chars) p plugins vp only vulnerable plugins ap all plugins (can take a long time) tt timthumbs t themes vp only vulnerable themes at all themes (can take a long time) Multiple values are allowed : '-e tt,p' will enumerate timthumbs and plugins If no option is supplied, the default is 'vt,tt,u,vp'
--exclude-content-based '' Used with the enumeration option, will exclude all occurrences based on the regexp or string supplied You do not need to provide the regexp delimiters, but you must write the quotes (simple or double)
--config-file | -c Use the specified config file
--follow-redirection If the target url has a redirection, it will be followed without asking if you wanted to do so or not
--wp-content-dir WPScan try to find the content directory (ie wp-content) by scanning the index page, however you can specified it. Subdirectories are allowed
--wp-plugins-dir Same thing than --wp-content-dir but for the plugins directory. If not supplied, WPScan will use wp-content-dir/plugins. Subdirectories are allowed
--proxy <[protocol://]host:port> Supply a proxy (will override the one from conf/browser.conf.json). HTTP, SOCKS4 SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 are supported. If no protocol is given (format host:port), HTTP will be used
--proxy-auth username:password Supply the proxy login credentials (will override the one from conf/browser.conf.json).
--basic-auth username:password Set the HTTP Basic authentication
--wordlist | -w Supply a wordlist for the password bruter and do the brute.
--threads | -t The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests. (will override the value from conf/browser.conf.json)
--username | -U Only brute force the supplied username.
--help | -h This help screen.
--verbose | -v Verbose output.

VANE EXAMPLES
Do 'non-intrusive' checks...

ruby vane.rb --url www.example.com

Do wordlist password brute force on enumerated users using 50 threads...

ruby vane.rb --url www.example.com --wordlist darkc0de.lst --threads 50

Do wordlist password brute force on the 'admin' username only...

ruby vane.rb --url www.example.com --wordlist darkc0de.lst --username admin

Enumerate installed plugins...

ruby vane.rb --url www.example.com --enumerate p

VANETOOLS ARGUMENTS

--help    | -h   This help screen.
--Verbose | -v   Verbose output.
--update  | -u   Update to the latest revision.
--generate_plugin_list [number of pages]  Generate a new data/plugins.txt file. (supply number of *pages* to parse, default : 150)
--gpl  Alias for --generate_plugin_list
--check-local-vulnerable-files | --clvf <local directory>  Perform a recursive scan in the <local directory> to find vulnerable files or shells

VANETOOLS EXAMPLES
Generate a new 'most popular' plugin list, up to 150 pages ...

ruby vanetools.rb --generate_plugin_list 150

Locally scan a WordPress installation for vulnerable files or shells :

ruby vanetools.rb --check-local-vulnerable-files /var/www/wordpress/