A black box, Ruby powered, Joomla vulnerability scanner
JoomlaVS is a Ruby application that can help automate assessing how vulnerable a Joomla installation is to exploitation. It supports basic finger printing and can scan for vulnerabilities in components, modules and templates as well as vulnerabilities that exist within Joomla itself.
Copyright (C) 2015 rastating
Running JoomlaVS against websites without prior mutual consent may be illegal in your country. The author and parties involved in its development accept no liability and are not responsible for any misuse or damage caused by JoomlaVS.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
JoomlaVS has so far only been tested on Debian, but the installation process should be similar across most operating systems.
- Ensure Ruby [2.0 or above] is installed on your system
- Clone the source code using
git clone https://github.com/rastating/joomlavs.git - Install bundler and required gems using
sudo gem install bundler && bundle install
If you have issues installing JoomlaVS' dependencies (in particular, Nokogiri), first make sure you have all the tooling necessary to compile C extensions:
sudo apt-get install build-essential patch
It’s possible that you don’t have important development header files installed on your system. Here’s what you should do if you should find yourself in this situation:
sudo apt-get install ruby-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev
The only required option is the -u / --url option, which specifies the address to target. To do a full scan, however, the --scan-all option should also be specified, e.g. ruby joomlavs.rb -u yourjoomlatarget.com --scan-all.
A full list of options can be found below:
usage: joomlavs.rb [options]
Basic options
-u, --url The Joomla URL/domain to scan.
--basic-auth <username:password> The basic HTTP authentication credentials
-v, --verbose Enable verbose mode
Enumeration options
-a, --scan-all Scan for all vulnerable extensions
-c, --scan-components Scan for vulnerable components
-m, --scan-modules Scan for vulnerable modules
-t, --scan-templates Scan for vulnerable templates
-q, --quiet Scan using only passive methods
Advanced options
--follow-redirection Automatically follow redirections
--no-colour Disable colours in output
--proxy <[protocol://]host:port> HTTP, SOCKS4 SOCKS4A and SOCKS5 are supported. If no protocol is given, HTTP will be used
--proxy-auth <username:password> The proxy authentication credentials
--threads The number of threads to use when multi-threading requests
--user-agent The user agent string to send with all requests