Stephen,

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Stephen Breen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll definitely take a look at the parameter pollution plugin, sounds
> interesting and I haven't heard of that issue before.

Great!

> I did look at the existing wordpress plugins and wasn't sure this would fit
> into any of them. On second thought, it could probably be an extension to
> wordpress_fingerprint since it is just fingerprinting themes and checking
> for some vulnerabilities.

Even if the plugin you wrote can be part of wordpress_fingerprint,
don't forget to send it to the mailing list, it might have some very
cool techniques as-is and we can learn from them.

> Thanks for pointing out the ria_enumerator plugin, I hadn't even noticed it,
> it covers exactly the same issue I had written my plugin for. I had kind of
> thought that the scope for the crossdomain.xml checking plugin I had written
> was a little too narrow anyways.

When you're in doubt if w3af has a plugin that does XYZ, the best thing is to:

$ cd w3af/
$ cd plugins/
$ grep XYZ * -Rsi


>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Andres Riancho <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Stephen,
>>
>>    Please read inline,
>>
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Stephen Breen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi, I've recently started using the w3af scanner and love it!
>>
>>    Always good to hear that :)
>>
>> > I'd like to
>> > contribute some code to the project and am wondering how to go about
>> > this?
>>
>>    A week ago or so I sent an email to the w3af-users and
>> w3af-develop mailing list asking for contributors for writing an HTTP
>> Parameter Pollution plugin:
>>
>>  http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00911.html
>>
>>    Maybe you want to start with that? I offer all my guidance with it :)
>>
>> > I've written 2 new discovery plugins; one is a wordpress theme auditor.
>> > Many
>> > wordpress vulnerabilities are theme specific, this plugin finds the
>> > running
>> > theme on a blog, attempts to find installed but not running themes by
>> > enumerating popular theme names from a list and for any themes found,
>> > runs
>> > tests to see if they are vulnerable to common vulnerabilities. Right now
>> > I
>> > have all of the Woo themes in the theme list and it checks for a new
>> > vulnerability that is common to all of them (WooThemes shortcode
>> > vulnerability). It is very easy to extend to new themes and
>> > vulnerabilities
>> > and I plan on adding more.
>>
>>    That sounds great! Have you read our existing wordpress plugins?
>> Ctrl+F wordpress here [0] and you might find some interesting stuff.
>> In the meanwhile, why don't you send your code to this mailing list so
>> we can all review it? I would recommend opening a new thread with
>> subject "Wordpress vulnerability detection - WooThemes" or something
>> similar.
>>
>> [0] https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/browser/trunk/plugins/discovery
>>
>> > The second is another discovery plugin that looks for misconfigured
>> > adobe
>> > crossdomain.xml files. Details on this problem can be found here
>> >
>> > http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.ca/2008/05/crossdomainxml-invites-cross-site.html
>>
>>    In this case, please take a look at [1] since we already have
>> something in place but it might require an update / review on the
>> techniques used.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/w3af/browser/trunk/plugins/discovery/ria_enumerator.py
>>
>> > Thanks!
>> >
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>>
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>
>



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Web Application Attack and Audit Framework

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