# wpscanteam/wpscan

WPScan WordPress security scanner. Written for security professionals and blog maintainers to test the security of their WordPress websites. Contact us via contact@wpscan.com

Repository: https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wpscan
Homepage: https://wpscan.com/wordpress-cli-scanner
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: wordpress, wpscan, security, security-scanner, hacking-tool, scanner, scan, wpvulndb
Last push: 2026-08-20T09:03:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 93/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 82, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5166, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 41, "gap_med": 50, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9740, forks 1343 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.020762+00:00)

## What it is
WPScan is a black-box WordPress security scanner written in Ruby, used by security professionals and site maintainers to audit WordPress installations. It enumerates core, plugin, and theme versions and cross-references them against the WPScan vulnerability database of tens of thousands of vetted WordPress vulnerabilities.

## Use cases
- scan a wordpress site for vulnerable plugins and themes
- enumerate wordpress usernames
- brute force weak wordpress passwords
- check wordpress core version for known vulnerabilities
- find exposed wp-config backups and database dumps
- pentest a wordpress website from the command line

## When to choose
- you need a dedicated, actively maintained WordPress-specific security scanner
- you want vulnerability data from a manually vetted WordPress vulnerability database (API token required)
- you work in Kali Linux or other pentesting distributions where it is a standard tool

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose web vulnerability scanner for non-WordPress sites
- you require heavy automated scanning without an API token (free tier is capped at 25 API calls/day)
- you need a GUI-based scanner rather than a CLI tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: security, vulnerability-scanning, cli, http-client
- domain: security, penetration-testing, cms, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cli, ruby
- tags: wordpress, wpscan, vulnerability-database, pentesting, black-box-scanner, wpvulndb, kali-linux, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- wpscanteam/wpscan (main) score 93

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.020762+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:12.587944+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.020762+00:00, sha 794962856ff3)
  - homepage: https://wpscan.com/wordpress-cli-scanner (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:48.926165+00:00, sha 3863df0781d0)
  - site_page: https://wpscan.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:48.935608+00:00, sha e8ba26fe3aa2)
  - site_page: https://wpscan.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:48.937684+00:00, sha 18b0a9d09bfa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.