Web Hacking: WordPress Penetration Testing and Security

Learn how to do Penetration Testing on WordPress based sites also learn how to increase security on WordPress sites

Did you know that more than 30% of websites on internet are based on WordPress and more than 42% of online shopping sites are using WordPress as E-commerce solution.

WordPress is robust and powerful open source website creation tool. In this course we are going to see the vulnerabilities in WordPress based sites We will start this course by looking into the core architecture of WordPress like How WordPress works? How themes work in WordPress? What are plugins and how to create plugins? Then will looking into information gathering phase of WordPress. We will see how to do version detection and how to gather user information. We will also try to find vulnerabilities in WordPress themes and plugins.

After that we will see how to exploit these vulnerabilities and gain access to WordPress site. We will also try and gain access to complete server using WordPress site. Then Will see how to write malware code and exploit WordPress site on different levels. After looking into WordPress vulnerabilities we will see how to secure WordPress sites. We will provide you step by step information to secure your new WordPress site as well as existing WordPress sites.

Disclaimer:

This course is intended strictly for educational and ethical cybersecurity research purposes. All demonstrations are performed in controlled laboratory environments on systems owned by the instructor or authorized for testing. The techniques shown are designed to help security professionals understand vulnerabilities and improve defensive security measures. Students are expected to follow all applicable laws and perform security testing only on systems they own or have explicit permission to test.