WPScanner: Automated Security Testing Tool for WordPress

Jan. 2, 2015

Most of the big companies hire security analysts who keep on finding vulnerabilities and patch them before hackers get in. But what about users who have a lower budget? If you have technical knowledge, you can make your WordPress secure by using known security plugins. And there are few tools which help us find vulnerabilities in a WordPress installation. By knowing the vulnerabilities, you can take action on patching those vulnerabilities. In this article, I am going to write about a less popular but effective tool called WPScanner. WPScanner is the WordPress security scanning tool developed by a well known company, WebSecurify. I already wrote an article on the WebSecurify vulnerability scanner. You can read that previous article to know how it works.