WP DETECT

A WordPress detection tool, detects if a website is running WordPress. wpdetect is a great tool when you just want to check WordPress' presence but do not want to scan the site for vulnerabilities or issues.

Installation

Installing from pip

You can install wpdetect using pip,

pip install wpdetect

wpdetect requires Python 3 or above to run. If you have Python 2 installed too, make sure to use the right pip.

Usage

Syntax

wpdetect https://www.wordpress.com/

wpdetect --url https://www.wordpress.com/

cat URLs.txt | wpdetect

echo https://www.wordpress.com | wpdetect

wpdetect --file urls.txt

Where urls.txt will contain domains like this,

https://www.wordpress.com/
https://www.newyorker.com/
http://www.techcrunch.com/

Please note that, it is not always possible to detect the presence of WordPress, website admins can take extra measures to remove sign of WordPress.

Options

Option	Description	Default Value (Behavior)
--file, -f	Path of the file containing URLs separated by new line characters	Empty String
--url, -u	URL of the target
--threads, -tr	Number of threads	1
--timeout, -t	Timeout of the HTTP request in seconds	5
--silent, -s	Only display URLs using wordpress, don't display banners and any other text	False
--preferhttp, -ph	If URL doesn't have http or https, only scan http	Scan both
--preferhttps, -phs	If URL doesn't have http or https, only scan https	Scan both

Upcoming features

1. Asynchronous: We're designing the tool to work in an asynchronous way, this means that there will be further improvements in speed.

What's new in version 1.3.7

1. Improved performance
2. Multi-Threading
3. Silent Mode
4. Ability to feed targets from standard input
5. Ability to tune HTTP Request timeout