🎯 What You'll Learn
- Fingerprint WordPress core, theme and plugin versions
- Enumerate users and harvest valid login names
- Identify vulnerable plugins and abuse them
- Gain code execution through the admin dashboard
Overview
WordPress powers a huge share of the web, which makes it a constant target. In this lab you map a WordPress install, fingerprint its plugins and themes, and chain weak configuration and vulnerable components into a foothold.
Core Topics
- Passive vs active CMS fingerprinting
- WPScan and manual enumeration
- XML-RPC and login brute forcing
- Theme/plugin editor to shell
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.