Course Overview

WordPress powers a significant portion of the web, making it a high-value target for ethical hackers and bug bounty hunters. This course provides hands-on training in discovering and exploiting WordPress vulnerabilities while maintaining ethical and responsible disclosure standards. With a strong focus on real-world techniques, learners will gain the practical skills required to identify security flaws in WordPress sites and plugins. 

This course begins with the fundamentals of WordPress and bug bounty methodology, then dives into identifying technologies and enumerating targets using tools like Nuclei, WPScan, and fuzzers. You will explore various vulnerability classes such as XML-RPC flaws, directory listing, and RCE through practical demonstrations. You'll also learn to automate testing with custom scripts, conduct brute force attacks ethically, and write impactful bug bounty reports. The course concludes with a discussion on responsible disclosure and valuable resources for continuing your journey. 

By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to ethically test WordPress applications, discover vulnerabilities, and submit high-quality bug bounty reports. 

What You Will Learn

  • Introduction to WordPress Security & Pentesting.
  • Enumerating WordPress users
  • plugins
  • and themes.
  • Finding WordPress vulnerabilities in live bug bounty programs.
  • Reporting vulnerabilities responsibly (Bugcrowd
  • HackerOne
  • private programs).
  • Crafting high-quality bug bounty reports.
  • Practical hands-on for each vulnerability.

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • Introduction to WordPress
  • Hunting Bug Bounty Targets
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Technology Detection - Part 1
  • Technology Detection - Part 2
  • Technology Detection - Part 3
  • Technology Detection using Fuzzing
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Finding Bugs - Part 1
  • Finding Bugs - Part 2
  • Finding Bugs using BASH Scripts
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Finding WordPress Websites for Security Testing
  • Detecting WordPress Instances with Nuclei
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Discovering Bugs Through WP Debug Logs
  • User Enumeration via WordPress RDF API
  • Directory Listing Exposure in WordPress
  • Exploiting Full Path Disclosure in WordPress
  • Identifying XML-RPC Vulnerabilities in WordPress
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Brute Force Attacks on WordPress
  • Writing an Effective Bug Bounty Report
  • Using WPScan for WordPress Security Analysis
  • Exploiting WordPress Themes
  • Remote Code Execution (RCE) in WordPress
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Building a Custom Security Automation Script
  • Fuzzing WordPress for Security Vulnerabilities
  • Advanced Web Fuzzing
  • Advanced WordPress Search Exploitation
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • WordPress Websites for Security Testing
  • Installing & Exploiting WordPress Plugins
  • Essential Resources for Bug Bounty Hunters
  • Chapter 8 Quiz

  • What’s Next?
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Instructor

Hacktify Cyber Security

Hackify Cyber Security is a Software Training Institute in Mumbai which provides Practicals and Hands-on real World Scenarios. They provide application security training and certifications via self-paced online courses as well as hands-on live training sessions. They also conduct Security Training and VA/PT.

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