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Using WordPress as a intranet and internet port scanner

A Ruby tool that turns WordPress blogs into port scanners. The Pingback API, exposed over XML-RPC, makes the blog server fetch an attacker-supplied URL, so responses reveal whether a host and port are open behind the firewall. It scans a target through one blog or spreads a single target's scan across many blogs; WordPress 3.5.1 fixed the issue.

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• Nominated for the 2012 Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques

Tags

• ssrf
• wordpress
• tooling
• ruby
• php
• large-scale-scan
• owasp-a10-2021

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