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Breaking into a wordpress site without knowing wordpress/php or infosec at all

Reported by hackinsight.org

My college has a website. And I simply wanted to find a vulnerability, exploit it, and post troll pictures on the front-page. While that’s not a very nice thing to do, but that’s irrelevant here. I knew the site ran wordpress, as my teacher vaguely recited in the webdev class.

“how to hack wordpress”, and after a couple results, I found a tool called “wpscan”, which examines a wordpress site and shows you a list of possible vulnerabilities.

Read the full article at hackinsight.org