wordpress-penetration-testing

wordpress-penetration-testing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from zebbern/claude-code-guide. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-assessment skill for WordPress sites, including checks of users, themes, plugins, configuration, vulnerabilities, and credentials. A penetration test is an authorised attempt to find and demonstrate security weaknesses.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for authorised WordPress enumeration, vulnerability scanning, credential checks, and documenting proof of exploitation.
Why use it?
It helps site owners understand where a WordPress installation could be exposed before a real attacker finds the same weaknesses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for authorised WordPress enumeration, vulnerability scanning, credential checks, and documenting proof of exploitation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zebbern/claude-code-guide/wordpress-penetration-testing
About the project

Claude Code Guide is a reference collection for configuring and using Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line coding agent. Developers use it to learn commands, skills, agents, MCP, automation, security, integrations, and troubleshooting. Its catalogue add-ons provide many of the documented skills and agents.

zebbern/claude-code-guide · 4,696 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add zebbern/claude-code-guide --skill wordpress-penetration-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zebbern/claude-code-guide

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,209 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to critical

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • critical YARA Match · line 313
    YARA rule matched a known malware signature (reverse shell, backdoor, ransomware, C2 framework, or info stealer).
    Fix: Remove the malware payload or compromised file entirely. Investigate how it entered the skill and audit all other artifacts for additional indicators of compromise.
  • critical YARA Match · line 316
    YARA rule matched a known webshell pattern (PHP, Python, JSP, or ASPX webshell).
    Fix: Remove the webshell code immediately. Webshells provide unauthorized remote command execution. Audit the skill for additional backdoors or persistence mechanisms.
  • critical YARA Match · line 332
    YARA rule matched a known webshell pattern (PHP, Python, JSP, or ASPX webshell).
    Fix: Remove the webshell code immediately. Webshells provide unauthorized remote command execution. Audit the skill for additional backdoors or persistence mechanisms.
  • high YARA Match · line 59
    YARA rule matched a hack tool or exploit indicator (offensive tools, reconnaissance, privilege escalation, or exploit frameworks).
    Fix: Remove offensive tool references and exploit code. Legitimate agent skills should not contain penetration testing tools, exploit frameworks, or reconnaissance utilities.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 202
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00064 $0.03209
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01284
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00321

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 365c3ed4686e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wordpress-penetration-testing scanned grade A with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Sends data to an external URLlowData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

curl -X POST -d "log=admin&pwd=wrongpass" http://target.com/wp-login.php

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- cURL or wget
skills/wordpress-penetration-testing/SKILL.md · 486 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 486 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WordPress Penetration Testing

Purpose

Conduct comprehensive security assessments of WordPress installations including enumeration of users, themes, and plugins, vulnerability scanning, credential attacks, and exploitation techniques. WordPress powers approximately 35% of websites, making it a critical target for security testing.

Prerequisites

Required Tools

  • WPScan (pre-installed in Kali Linux)
  • Metasploit Framework
  • Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP
  • Nmap for initial discovery
  • cURL or wget

Required Knowledge

  • WordPress architecture and structure
  • Web application testing fundamentals
  • HTTP protocol understanding
  • Common web vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)

Outputs and Deliverables

  1. WordPress Enumeration Report - Version, themes, plugins, users
  2. Vulnerability Assessment - Identified CVEs and misconfigurations
  3. Credential Assessment - Weak password findings
  4. Exploitation Proof - Shell access documentation

Core Workflow

Phase 1: WordPress Discovery

Identify WordPress installations:

# Check for WordPress indicators
curl -s http://target.com | grep -i wordpress
curl -s http://target.com | grep -i "wp-content"
curl -s http://target.com | grep -i "wp-includes"

# Check common WordPress paths
curl -I http://target.com/wp-login.php
curl -I http://target.com/wp-admin/
curl -I http://target.com/wp-content/
curl -I http://target.com/xmlrpc.php

# Check meta generator tag
curl -s http://target.com | grep "generator"

# Nmap WordPress detection
nmap -p 80,443 --script http-wordpress-enum target.com

Key WordPress files and directories:

  • /wp-admin/ - Admin dashboard
  • /wp-login.php - Login page
  • /wp-content/ - Themes, plugins, uploads
  • /wp-includes/ - Core files
  • /xmlrpc.php - XML-RPC interface
  • /wp-config.php - Configuration (not accessible if secure)
  • /readme.html - Version information

Phase 2: Basic WPScan Enumeration

Comprehensive WordPress scanning with WPScan:

# Basic scan
wpscan --url http://target.com/wordpress/

# With API token (for vulnerability data)
wpscan --url http://target.com --api-token YOUR_API_TOKEN

# Aggressive detection mode
wpscan --url http://target.com --detection-mode aggressive

# Output to file
wpscan --url http://target.com -o results.txt

# JSON output
wpscan --url http://target.com -f json -o results.json

# Verbose output
wpscan --url http://target.com -v

Read the full file on GitHub · 486 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 486 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 365c3ed4686e

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wordpress-penetration-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository zebbern/claude-code-guide (4,696 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,209 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (sends data to an external url, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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