nuclei-templates/technologies/wordpress-detect.yaml

id: wordpress-detect

info:
  name: WordPress Detect
  author: pdteam,daffainfo
  severity: info
  metadata:
    verified: true
    shodan-query: http.component:"WordPress"
  tags: tech,wordpress,cms,wp

requests:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - '{{BaseURL}}'
      - '{{BaseURL}}/feed/'
      - '{{BaseURL}}/?feed=rss2' # alternative if /feed/ is blocked

    stop-at-first-match: true
    matchers-condition: or
    matchers:
      - type: regex
        regex:
          - '<link[^>]+s\d+\.wp\.com'
          - '<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast (?:WordPress )?SEO plugin v([\d.]+) -'
          - '<!--[^>]+WP-Super-Cache'
        condition: or

      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - '<generator>'
          - '<link>'
          - '<title>'
        condition: and

      - type: word
        words:
          - 'wp-login.php'
          - '/wp-content/themes/'
          - '/wp-includes/'
          - 'name="generator" content="wordpress'
          - '<!-- performance optimized by w3 total cache. learn more: http://www.w3-edge.com/wordpress-plugins/'
        condition: or

    extractors:
      - type: regex
        group: 1
        regex:
          - '(?m)https:\/\/wordpress.org\/\?v=([0-9.]+)'