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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0001838Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2014-10-21 08:392025-07-14 09:38
Reportersinamanavi Assigned Tomuts  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionfixed 
Product Version1.0.9 
Summary0001838: wpscan can not be run on Kali, need to be reinstalled from the git
Description

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WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team

Sponsored by the Open Source Initiative RandomStorm

[ERROR] The option: timeout is invalid.
Trace:
block in set_attributes /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ethon/multi.rb:103:in ' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ethon/multi.rb:101:in each_pair '
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ethon/multi.rb:101:in set_attributes' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/ethon/multi.rb:86:ininitialize '
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/typhoeus/hydra.rb:95:in new ' /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/typhoeus/hydra.rb:95:ininitialize '
/usr/share/wpscan/lib/browser.rb:48:in new ' /usr/share/wpscan/lib/browser.rb:48:ininitialize '
/usr/share/wpscan/lib/browser.rb:62:in new ' /usr/share/wpscan/lib/browser.rb:62:ininstance '
/usr/share/wpscan/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb:43:in initialize ' / Usr / bin / wpscan: 51: innew '
/ Usr / bin / wpscan: 51: in `
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Steps To Reproduce

aptitude install libcurl4-gnutls-dev libopenssl-ruby-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1 ruby-dev
git clone https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan.git
cd wpscan
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install --without development test
wpscan and run ./wpscan.rb or ruby wpscan.rb

Additional Information

if it didnt work run the command line number 5 again.
it worked for me

Activities

muts

muts

2014-10-21 08:44

reporter   ~0002664

Last edited: 2014-10-21 08:45

Looks like you have somewhat of a mess in your installation, wpscan which is packaged in Kali works for me:

root@dev:~# wpscan
...
WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team
Version 2.5.1
Sponsored by the RandomStorm Open Source Initiative
@WPScan, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, pvdl, @FireFart
...
and the scan continues fine.

One thing to notice is that the packaged version of wpscan is currently 2.5.1 in Kali, while your prompt shows something else.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2014-10-21 08:39 sinamanavi New Issue
2014-10-21 08:44 muts Note Added: 0002664
2014-10-21 08:44 muts Status new => closed
2014-10-21 08:44 muts Assigned To => muts
2014-10-21 08:44 muts Resolution open => fixed
2014-10-21 08:45 muts Note Edited: 0002664
2025-07-14 09:38 g0tmi1k Severity crash => minor