Episode 26: How Hackers Find Vulnerabilities in WordPress with Ryan Dewhurst




Think Like a Hacker with Wordfence show

Summary: Ryan Dewhurst is an ethical hacker & penetration tester who has developed tools that make finding vulnerabilities in WordPress easier. Ryan is 1 of 3 contributors to WPScan, a command line tool that streamlines this testing. Ryan also maintains the WPScan Vulnerability Database, used by many services including Wordfence to alert WordPress users to the vulnerabilities on their site. Ryan & Mark talk about these services, how they work, how they're used & how you can use them to test your own site's security.