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-Metadata-Version: 2.4
-Name: wpsecscan
-Version: 2.7.2
-Summary: Defensive WordPress security scanner. 200+ checks, 8-source nightly CVE aggregator, AI-assisted remediation (BYO key), 15 compliance frameworks (OWASP/PCI/NIST/ISO/HIPAA/SOC2/HITRUST/CMMC), Sigstore-signed releases with SLSA L3 provenance, 10 threat-intel feeds (KEV/EPSS/Exploit-DB/ATT&CK/STIX/MISP/OTX/GreyNoise), continuous monitors, consent-gated exploit verification, multi-tenant RBAC/SSO/audit-log enterprise mode, 12 report formats. Authorized testing only.
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-
-# WPSecScan
-
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-
-> **⚠ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY**
->
-> WPSecScan is a defensive security tool. Use it **only** on sites you own
-> or sites whose owner has given you **written permission** to test.
-> Unauthorised scanning is illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g. the US
-> Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990, the EU
-> Network and Information Security Directive). The maintainers accept no
-> liability for misuse. By using this software you confirm you have the
-> required authorisation for every target you scan.
-
-**The most thoroughly-sourced WordPress vulnerability scanner — open source, AGPLv3, runs locally.**
-
-226 checks across 18 categories. **8-source nightly CVE aggregator**
-(NVD + GHSA + Mitre + OSV + Wordfence + WPVulnerability + CIRCL +
-Patchstack). **SLSA L3 + Sigstore-signed releases**. **10-provider
-threat-intel federation** (CISA KEV, EPSS, Exploit-DB, Metasploit,
-ATT&CK Navigator, STIX, MISP, OpenCTI, OTX, GreyNoise). **Continuous
-monitoring** (CT/DNS/WHOIS/RBL/honeypot/auto-rollback). **Active
-exploit verification** with strict consent gating. **Enterprise
-mode**: OIDC + SAML + RBAC + audit-log + approval workflow +
-multi-tenant + quotas. **Distribution**: Docker, K8s, Homebrew, Snap,
-Flatpak, winget, AUR, Chocolatey.
-
-Original headline:
-gives you a fresher and more complete vulnerability database than
-any single paid or free service. Runs entirely on your machine — no
-telemetry, no per-site licensing, no data leaves your box.
-
-Ships as two standalone Windows binaries — no Python required on the machine you run them on.
-
-- **`wpsecscan.exe`** — command-line scanner. Output: console + HTML + JSON + CSV + SARIF + Markdown + Excel (XLSX) + executive PDF + Burp scope XML + CycloneDX SBOM + shields.io status badge SVG.
-- **`wpsecscan-gui.exe`** — full GUI with live progress tree, finding details, risk score,
-  scan profiles, multi-target queue, scheduled scans, webhook alerts, exploit playbooks, and more.
-- **`wpsecscan-companion.zip`** — WordPress plugin that exposes a read-only, token-gated
-  REST endpoint so the scanner gets authoritative diagnostics in one round-trip (3× more
-  accurate plugin/theme detection vs HTTP-probe guessing).
-
-### Why people are switching to WPSecScan
-
-- **8-source CVE aggregator** runs nightly on our infrastructure — pulls
-  Wordfence + NVD + GitHub Security Advisories + Mitre CVE List + OSV.dev +
-  WPVulnerability.com + CIRCL + Patchstack and merges them into one feed.
-  Users get a strictly fresher + more complete DB than Wordfence/Patchstack
-  alone. **6 of 8 sources are fully free, no key required.**
-- **Daily DB refresh + per-CVE webhook alerts** — `wpsecscan schedule
-  install` registers a daily 02:00 CVE-refresh + weekly 03:00 site scan
-  on Windows Task Scheduler / macOS launchd / Linux systemd.
-  `wpsecscan db subscribe https://hooks.slack.com/...` fires the moment a
-  new CVE drops for a plugin you have installed.
-- **15 compliance frameworks mapped** per check: OWASP Top 10 + MITRE
-  ATT&CK + CWE + D3FEND + PCI-DSS 4.0 + NIST 800-53 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA +
-  FERPA + SOC 2 + FedRAMP + GDPR + HITRUST CSF v11.4 + CMMC 2.0 +
-  NIST CSF 2.0 + CIS Critical Controls v8 + ISO 27001:2022 Annex A.
-- **11 report formats**: HTML, JSON, CSV, SARIF 2.1.0, Markdown, Excel
-  (XLSX with per-OWASP-category sheets), executive PDF, CycloneDX SBOM,
-  Burp Suite scope XML, attestation PDF, shields.io status-badge SVG.
-- **10 third-party integrations** including Burp Suite project XML,
-  OWASP ZAP findings import, Nuclei template auto-pull, JIRA / Linear /
-  GitHub Issues bulk-create, Wordfence Cloud sync, Sucuri SiteCheck,
-  Patchstack + WPScan write-back, WP Engine / Kinsta / WP.com host APIs.
-- **AI-assisted remediation** with PII masking + prompt-injection guard +
-  per-backend cost tracking. Bring your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Ollama /
-  llama.cpp key. **`WPSECSCAN_NO_AI=1` to hard-disable.**
-- **Privacy-first**: no telemetry, runs locally, supports SOCKS5/HTTP
-  proxies (Tor friendly), `WPSECSCAN_NO_NETWORK=1` for air-gapped mode.
-
----
-
-## Quick install
-
-### Option A — `pip install wpsecscan` (any platform)
-
-The simplest path on Linux, macOS, or Windows-with-Python:
-
-```bash
-pip install wpsecscan
-wpsecscan --version
-wpsecscan https://example.com --json-only
-```
-
-PyPI: <https://pypi.org/project/wpsecscan/>
-
-For the optional GUI minimize-to-tray feature, install with the
-`[ui]` extra (pulls in Pillow + pystray):
-
-```bash
-pip install "wpsecscan[ui]"
-```
-
-Other optional extras: `[pdf]` (reportlab for true PDF exec reports),
-`[browser]` (playwright for headless DOM-XSS), `[yaml]` (pyyaml for
-daemon config), `[ops]` (redis + bcrypt for enterprise mode), or
-`[all]` to install everything.
-
-### Option B — pre-built Windows binaries
-
-1. Open `dist\` in this folder.
-2. Copy `wpsecscan.exe` and `wpsecscan-gui.exe` somewhere on your PATH
-   (e.g. `C:\Tools\` or `C:\Users\<you>\bin\`).
-3. Done. No Python, no installer, no admin rights needed.
-
-The first time you run them, Windows SmartScreen may warn that the publisher is unknown
-(the binaries aren't code-signed). Click **More info → Run anyway**.
-
-### Option C — build from source
-
-Requires Python 3.10+ and PyInstaller. Open PowerShell in the project root:
-
-```powershell
-.\build.ps1
-```
-
-This creates a virtualenv in `.venv\`, installs dependencies from `requirements.txt`,
-and runs PyInstaller. Output:
-
-```
-dist\wpsecscan.exe                  # CLI (~17 MB)
-dist\wpsecscan-gui.exe       # GUI (~17 MB)
-```
-
-Both are single-file executables — copy them anywhere and they run on their own.
-
-### Option D — run from source directly (development)
-
-```powershell
-python -m venv .venv
-.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
-pip install .
-python run.py https://example.com         # CLI
-python run_gui.py                          # GUI
-pytest                                     # 780 tests
-```
-
----
-
-## First scan
-
-### GUI
-
-1. Double-click `wpsecscan-gui.exe`.
-2. Paste a URL into the URL field (e.g. `https://your-wp-site.com`).
-3. Click **Scan**. Watch the live tree on the left and click any finding to read
-   evidence, remediation, and the *Exploit Playbook* (concrete sqlmap/Metasploit/curl/nuclei commands).
-4. When the scan finishes, the **Risk Score** badge at the top shows `0-100` color-coded
-   (green/yellow/orange/red). HTML and JSON reports are saved to your user folder.
-
-### CLI
-
-```powershell
-# Simple scan, HTML + JSON saved to current directory
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com
-
-# Custom output folder
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --out C:\scans\
-
-# JSON only, no HTML
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --json-only --out C:\scans\
-
-# Multiple targets from a file
-wpsecscan.exe --file my-sites.txt --concurrency 5 --out C:\scans\
-
-# Aggressive mode (active payload checks — SQLi, XSS, SSRF, etc.)
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --aggressive
-
-# Authenticated scan
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --auth-user admin --auth-pass <pwd>
-
-# Use a saved WPScan API token for richer plugin CVE lookups
-wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --wpscan-token <KEY>
-```
-
-**Exit codes**: `0` = clean / info only · `1` = medium findings · `2` = critical or high findings · `130` = Ctrl+C.
-
----
-
-## What it checks (226 checks)
-
-Passive checks always run; aggressive checks need `--aggressive`.
-
-- **Recon**: WP core version · plugin enum (slug + version) · theme enum · user enum (`?author=`, REST `wp/v2/users`)
-- **Surface**: 40+ exposed-path probes (`.env`, `wp-config.php.bak`, `.git/config`, debug.log, backup-plugin dumps, phpinfo, adminer, …) · WebDAV / OPTIONS enum · beta/test/debug query-parameter discovery
-- **Auth surface**: `wp-login.php` + XML-RPC method enum + `system.multicall` amplifier check + rate-limit probe · OAuth2/OIDC discovery audit · SAML / XSW endpoint discovery · JWT audit (`alg=none` + weak HS256 brute-force)
-- **Transport**: TLS version, cert expiry, HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, cookie flags
-- **APIs**: REST namespace map, REST OPTIONS write-method enum, WPGraphQL introspection, CORS misconfig (full preflight matrix incl. `null` origin reflection)
-- **Defensive posture**: WAF / CDN detection · WAF rule-set identification (CRS / AWS / Cloudflare Managed / Wordfence Premium) · DNS SPF / DMARC / DKIM · security.txt · AbuseIPDB reputation (opt-in)
-- **Supply-chain**: external JS hosts + SRI hash check · source-map exposure · JS library version audit · S3 bucket discovery + public-ACL probe · GitHub leaked-token search (opt-in, scans your domain against AKIA/sk_live_/ghp_/etc.)
-- **Subdomain attack surface**: certificate-transparency discovery · dangling-CDN takeover candidates · **cookie-tossing chain** detection (apex-cookie + takeover-able subdomain)
-- **Server fingerprint**: Server-Timing, X-Request-ID, X-Debug-Token leaks
-- **CVE matching**: 7000+ Wordfence CVEs + 307 high-confidence exploit signatures + 224 modern payloads · CISA KEV catalog enrichment · EPSS percentile scoring · VirusTotal URL/IP enrichment (opt-in)
-- **Aggressive** (`--aggressive`): SQLi (error-based + time-blind escalator) · reflected XSS · SSRF · path traversal · open redirect · file upload · default credentials (max 10) · SSTI (7 template engines) · NoSQL operator injection · path-normalisation bypass (`..%2f`, `..;/`, …) · race-condition probe (parallel POSTs) · active HTTP smuggling (CL.TE / TE.CL) · headless DOM-XSS (Playwright, optional)
-- **Deep** (`--deep-throttle`): 10-500 wrong-password attempts at 5-60s pacing to map your login throttle threshold (synthetic non-existent user, fixed wrong password — never brute-force)
-- **Authenticated** (`--auth-user`/`--auth-pass`): logs in, audits user roles, plugins, Site Health, options
-
-### Round-54 additions (Nov 2026 — A1-G4 catalogue)
-
-WPSecScan grew from 80 → 94 checks plus a wide non-check toolkit:
-
-| Area | New |
-|------|-----|
-| **Active probes** | `ssti`, `nosql_injection`, `path_bypass`, `race_condition`, `dom_xss_headless` (Playwright optional) |
-| **Passive / intel checks** | `webdav`, `dev_params`, `abuseipdb_lookup` (`--abuseipdb-token`), `waf_ruleset`, `oauth_oidc`, `saml_xsw`, `s3_bucket_discovery`, `github_leak_search` (`--github-search-token`), `jwt_audit` |
-| **Modified checks** | `subdomains` (B7 cookie-tossing chain), `cors` (B8 preflight matrix incl. `Origin: null`), `sqli` (A3 time-blind escalator), `smuggling_probe` (A6 active CL.TE/TE.CL) |
-| **Threat-intel integrations** | CISA KEV, EPSS, VirusTotal, Sucuri SiteCheck, NVD/Wordfence CVE explainer |
-| **Per-check tags** | new `cwe` (e.g. `CWE-79`) + `d3fend` (e.g. `D3-IVA`) fields in `data/check_tags.json` |
-| **Reporters** | one-page executive PDF (`--exec-pdf`, uses reportlab or HTML fallback) · two-report drag-and-drop HTML diff viewer · Burp Suite scope XML (`--burp-export`) · severity × OWASP-category SVG heatmap embedded in HTML report |
-| **CLI flags** | `--fail-on`, `--diff-against`, `--shell`, `--replay-har`, `--daemon`, `--abuseipdb-token`, `--vt-token`, `--github-search-token`, `--burp-export`, `--exec-pdf` |
-| **GUI windows** | step-by-step exploit-playbook walker (right-click any finding) · drill historical findings by OWASP/ATT&CK/CWE/D3FEND tag · multi-URL risk-score trend overlay · drop-in marketplace browser · 5-step first-run tutorial |
-| **Collab** | assign-owner + comment threads per finding (right-click) |
-| **Infra / docs** | `.github/workflows/wpsecscan.yml` (nightly + PR scans) · GitLab CI / Jenkins / Azure DevOps templates in `ci/` · `Dockerfile` + `docker-compose.yml` · `SDK.md` · `DISTRIBUTED-SCAN.md` · audit-log JSONL of every scan invocation · custom signature / payload drop-in (`~/.wpsecscan/{signatures,payloads}/`) · i18n stub (en + es) |
-
----
-
-## Output formats
-
-Every scan produces:
-
-| Flag                | File                     | Use case                                |
-|---------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
-| (default)           | `<host>-<ts>.html`       | Open in a browser. Has copy-to-clipboard buttons for every command, color-coded exploit playbooks, and a "🖨 Print / Save as PDF" button in the top-right corner. |
-| (default)           | `<host>-<ts>.json`       | Includes per-finding `confidence` (low/medium/high) and per-check `tags` (OWASP Top 10 + MITRE ATT&CK). For downstream tooling. |
-| `--csv`             | `<host>-<ts>.csv`        | Spreadsheet import. Cells are escaped against Excel formula-injection. |
-| `--sarif`           | `<host>-<ts>.sarif`      | GitHub Code Scanning, Azure DevOps, anything that ingests SARIF 2.1.0. |
-| `--json-only`       | suppresses HTML          | CI / scripted use. |
-| `--md`              | `<host>-<ts>.md`         | Markdown report for Confluence / GitHub / Slack threads. |
-| `--xlsx`            | `<host>-<ts>.xlsx`       | Excel workbook with per-OWASP-category sheets. |
-| `--har FILE.har`    | `FILE.har`               | HAR 1.2 recording of every HTTP request (Cookie/Authorization redacted). Replay with `--replay-har`. |
-| `--burp-export`     | `<host>-<ts>-burp-scope.xml` | Burp Suite scope XML for hand-off to manual testing. |
-| `--exec-pdf`        | `<host>-<ts>-exec.pdf`   | One-page non-technical executive summary. Uses `reportlab` if installed, else writes a print-friendly HTML file. |
-
-### Round-54 CLI additions
-
-| Flag                                  | Purpose                                                                                  |
-|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `--fail-on critical\|high\|medium`    | Override exit-code logic — non-zero only when a finding meets or exceeds the threshold.  |
-| `--diff-against BASELINE.json`        | Compute the NEW / RESOLVED delta vs a saved JSON report, print to stdout.                |
-| `--shell`                             | After scan, drop into a Python REPL with `report` pre-bound (for power users / IR).      |
-| `--replay-har HAR_FILE`               | Re-run every request in a HAR file; optionally override the origin with `<target>`.      |
-| `--daemon CONFIG.yml`                 | Cron-style scheduled scans driven by a YAML config (no Task Scheduler required).         |
-| `--abuseipdb-token TOKEN`             | Enables the AbuseIPDB reputation check for the target's IP.                              |
-| `--vt-token TOKEN`                    | Enables VirusTotal URL/IP enrichment.                                                    |
-| `--github-search-token PAT`           | Enables GitHub code-search for the target's domain + common secret prefixes.             |
-
-### Round-56 visibility flags
-
-| Flag                                  | Purpose                                                                                  |
-|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
-| `--demo`                              | Synthetic scan against a fake target — every check fires fake findings, every integration fires a fake activity event. Writes one of every artifact to `~/.wpsecscan/demo/`. Great for screenshots, smoke-testing an install, or training new users. |
-| `--no-live`                           | Disable the live multi-panel rich dashboard during scans. The static console reporter still renders at the end. Useful for CI logs / piped output. |
-
----
-
-## Power-user features (GUI)
-
-- **Risk score**: 0–100, color-coded. Calculated from severity weights with per-tier caps.
-- **Profiles** (File → Profiles): save the current toggle/pacing/threshold set as `"Quick"`, `"Deep"`, `"Audit"` etc. Loads with one click. Stored in `~/.wpsecscan/profiles.json`.
-- **Recent URLs**: the URL field is a dropdown of the last 20 scanned sites.
-- **Diff with last scan**: button appears after a scan if a previous JSON for the same URL exists in `~/.wpsecscan/reports/`. Shows `[NEW]` / `[RESOLVED]` per finding.
-- **Multi-target scan** (Tools → Multi-target): paste/load a list of URLs, scan each in turn, one-row-per-site dashboard with risk score and Δ-vs-last-scan.
-- **Scheduled recurring scan** (Tools → Schedule): registers a Windows Task Scheduler job (`WPSecScan_<host>`) that runs daily/weekly/monthly at a chosen time. Outputs to a folder you pick. Remove with `schtasks /Delete /TN WPSecScan_<host> /F`.
-- **Risk-score trend** (Tools → Show risk trend): ASCII sparkline of historical scores for the current URL.
-- **Webhook notify** (File → Settings → "Webhook notify"): one POST to Slack/Discord/Teams/PagerDuty when a scan finds ≥ chosen severity. Hosts validated against an allow-list — won't post to arbitrary URLs or raw IPs.
-- **Finding annotations**: right-click any finding → "Accepted risk" / "False positive" with an optional note. Persisted per-URL in `~/.wpsecscan/annotations.json`.
-- **Filter pills**: Only NEW (vs last scan), Only CONFIRMED (signature engine actively verified), Hide annotated, per-severity show/hide.
-- **Exploit playbook**: every finding's detail pane includes concrete attacker-side commands (curl PoCs · sqlmap · Metasploit · nuclei · wpscan · ffuf) with `{target}` already substituted, plus a plain-English *"How an attacker uses this"* paragraph.
-- **OWASP + MITRE chips**: every check is tagged with its OWASP Top 10 category (e.g. `A03:2021`) and MITRE ATT&CK technique (e.g. `T1190`). Shown inline in the GUI and console.
-- **Exploit confidence**: each finding carries a confidence badge (HIGH / MED / LOW) separate from severity — `[CONFIRMED]` findings are HIGH; presence of a WAF downgrades unconfirmed findings by one tier.
-- **Cancel-mid-scan**: clicking Cancel during the 20-min deep throttle test returns a partial result with what was learned so far.
-
----
-
-## CLI flag reference (most-used)
-
-```
-USAGE: wpsecscan.exe [URL] [options]
-
-Targets:
-  URL                          A single site (https://example.com)
-  --file FILE                  Newline-separated list of URLs
-
-Output:
-  --out PATH                   Output directory or filename stem (default: cwd)
-  --json-only                  Suppress HTML
-  --html-only                  Suppress JSON
-  --csv                        Also write CSV
-  --sarif                      Also write SARIF 2.1.0
-  --quiet, -q                  Suppress the colored console table (alias: --no-console)
-  -v / -vv                     Increase console verbosity (per-check / HTTP-level)
-
-Modes:
-  --aggressive                 Enable active payload checks (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, etc.)
-  --prove                      For each confirmed aggressive finding, run a read-only
-                               proof extractor. Requires --aggressive. Read-only.
-  --deep-throttle              Run the deep login-throttle mapper
-  --deep-throttle-attempts N   (10-500, default 120)
-  --deep-throttle-pacing S     (5-60 seconds, default 10)
-  --auth-user USER             Admin username for authenticated scan (env: WPSECSCAN_AUTH_USER)
-  --auth-pass PASS             Admin password (env: WPSECSCAN_AUTH_PASS; use `-` to read from stdin)
-  --ssh-audit user@host        Connect via SSH and run a read-only wp-cli audit
-  --password-audit FILE        Offline: convert wp_users dump to a hashcat-ready file (NO network)
-
-Tuning:
-  --timeout SECONDS            Per-request timeout (default 15)
-  --concurrency N              Concurrent requests per host (default 10)
-  --user-agent STRING          Custom User-Agent
-  --insecure                   Don't verify TLS certs
-  --wpscan-token TOKEN         WPScan API token (richer plugin CVE data)
-  --hibp-token TOKEN           HaveIBeenPwned API key
-
-Maintenance:
-  --update-db                  Refresh the Wordfence vulnerability database
-                               (exits 75 on remote-fetch failure for CI detection)
-  --diff OLD.json NEW.json     Diff two saved JSON reports
-  --baseline BASELINE.json     Diff scan-in-progress against a saved baseline (alias: --diff-against)
-  --debug                      Verbose internal logging to ~/.wpsecscan/logs/
-  --completion {bash,zsh,powershell}   Print shell-completion script and exit
-  --version
-
-Subcommands (run `wpsecscan <subcommand> --help` for details):
-  sites          Manage a list of sites (add/list/scan/remove)
-  schedule       Install/uninstall a Windows-Scheduler / launchd / systemd cron
-  digest         Configure SMTP / webhook digests of new findings
-  ai-cost        Print AI-triage cost summary
-  ai-options     Read/set Advanced AI-triage toggles
-  analytics      Manage opt-in analytics
-  db             vuln DB management (status / update / signatures / source-stats / subscribe / alert-check)
-  compare URL    Diff the two most-recent saved snapshots of a URL
-  badge URL      Emit a shields.io-style SVG of the latest scan grade
-```
-
----
-
-## Configuration files
-
-Everything is stored in `~/.wpsecscan/` (i.e. `C:\Users\<you>\.wpsecscan\`):
-
-| Path                                         | Purpose                                                  |
-|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
-| `history.json`                               | Last 20 scanned URLs (GUI dropdown)                      |
-| `profiles.json`                              | Named scan profiles (toggles + deep-throttle settings)   |
-| `settings.json`                              | Tokens saved via the GUI onboarding wizard               |
-| `sites.json`                                 | Managed-sites list for `wpsecscan sites` + scheduling    |
-| `schedule_state.json`                        | Cron-style state for `wpsecscan schedule`                |
-| `digest.json`                                | Configured SMTP / webhook digest destinations            |
-| `annotations.json`                           | Per-finding annotations (accepted-risk / FP)             |
-| `comments.json`                              | Per-finding free-text comments                           |
-| `stars.json`                                 | Starred findings (GUI sidebar)                           |
-| `disabled_checks.json`                       | Persistently disabled check IDs                          |
-| `reports/{host}.json`                        | Latest-scan snapshot per URL (canonical)                 |
-| `reports/{host}-{YYYYmmdd-HHMMSS}.json`      | Timestamped snapshot history (for `compare`, trend)      |
-| `cache/wporg/{slug}.json`                    | 24h-cached wp.org plugin metadata (plugin_cemetery)      |
-| `checkpoints/`                               | `--checkpoint` resumable scan state                      |
-| `logs/`                                      | `--debug` log files                                      |
-| `demo/`                                      | `--demo` synthetic-scan artifacts                        |
-| `analytics/events.jsonl`                     | Opt-in analytics (off by default; `wpsecscan analytics`) |
-| `wordfence.json`                             | Local cache of the aggregated CVE database               |
-
-Override the base dir with the `WPSECSCAN_HOME` environment variable.
-
-### Shell completions
-
-```powershell
-# bash
-wpsecscan --completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/wpsecscan
-
-# zsh
-wpsecscan --completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_wpsecscan"
-
-# PowerShell
-wpsecscan --completion powershell | Out-File -Append $PROFILE
-```
-
-Restart the shell to activate.
-
-### Secrets via env vars
-
-Every sensitive flag — `--auth-pass`, `--auth-app-password`,
-`--companion-token`, `--proxy-auth`, `--wpscan-token`,
-`--patchstack-token`, `--hibp-token`, `--vt-token`, `--abuseipdb-token`,
-`--github-search-token` — reads from a matching `WPSECSCAN_<UPPER>`
-environment variable when not passed on the CLI. Use `--auth-pass -`
-to read the password from stdin via `getpass` (stops it leaking into
-`ps aux` / shell history).
-
----
-
-## Safety
-
-- **Use only on sites you own** or have written permission to test. Online password
-  brute-force is permanently out of scope. The "deep throttle" probe uses a synthetic
-  non-existent username and a fixed wrong password — it maps your defense, it does
-  not guess passwords.
-- All active payloads are read-only. The payload library is enforced at load-time
-  with a pytest invariant that scans for any write-side operations.
-- The webhook URL allow-list rejects raw IPs, internal addresses (incl. AWS metadata
-  at `169.254.169.254`), and unknown hosts.
-- Authenticated scans run with the credentials you provide but never log them.
-- The scheduled-task URL validator enforces a strict regex to prevent shell-meta
-  injection in the registered `schtasks` command.
-
----
-
-## Troubleshooting
-
-**"Windows protected your PC" SmartScreen warning** — click *More info → Run anyway*.
-The binaries aren't code-signed.
-
-**Defender quarantines `wpsecscan.exe` with `Backdoor:JS/Chopper.GG!dha`** — known false positive.
-This is a defensive scanner: to **detect** webshells (China Chopper, c99, r57) on your sites
-it ships references to those attack patterns. Defender's pattern-matching heuristic flags
-the .exe even though it never executes any of those patterns locally. The same kind of
-detection trips sqlmap, Metasploit, nuclei, and Gophish — all legitimate security tools.
-
-**Three ways to fix it:**
-
-1. **In the GUI**: a dialog pops up on first launch with an "Add exclusion now (UAC)"
-   button. You can also open it any time via *Tools → Add Windows Defender exclusion...*
-
-2. **From admin PowerShell** (manual, one line):
-   ```powershell
-   Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\path\to\dist'
-   ```
-   Replace `C:\path\to\dist` with the actual folder containing the `.exe` binaries.
-
-3. **Via the bundled helper script** (auto-detects the binary location, prompts UAC):
-   ```powershell
-   .\scripts\add-defender-exclusion.ps1
-   ```
-
-**To restore a quarantined file**: *Windows Security → Virus & threat protection →
-Protection history → Allow*.
-
-**This program does NOT**:
-- Install a backdoor on your computer.
-- Open any listening port on your machine.
-- Send data anywhere except to the WordPress URLs you type in.
-- Run any of the webshells in its signature list — those are strings used to RECOGNISE
-  webshells on *your sites*, not to execute them.
-
-**"DB: not loaded — click Refresh"** in the GUI — click *Refresh vuln DB*. Or from the CLI: `wpsecscan.exe --update-db`.
-
-**Scan stalls on a hung target** — `--timeout 5` cuts the per-request wait.
-
-**Multi-target scan freezes for one bad URL** — each URL has its own per-request
-timeout. If one consistently hangs, drop it from the list.
-
-**Cron / scheduled-task entries pile up** — list them with `schtasks /Query /TN WPSecScan_*` and remove individually with `schtasks /Delete /TN <name> /F`.
-
-**GUI crashes immediately on launch** — check `C:\Users\<you>\.wpsecscan\` is writable.
-Run from a terminal to see the traceback: `wpsecscan-gui.exe` (the windowed
-build suppresses console output by design — run via `python run_gui.py` from a checkout
-to see errors).
-
----
-
-## Inventory
-
-| Category                  | Count |
-|---------------------------|-------|
-| Checks                    | **226** |
-| Payloads                  | **224** |
-| Exploit signatures        | **307** |
-| Plugin CVE database       | ~7,000 (Wordfence) + 7 other sources via the nightly aggregator |
-| Exploit-playbook entries  | **25** |
-| Tests                     | **667** |
-
----
-
-## License & disclaimer
-
-Licensed under **AGPLv3+** (from v1.9.0 onward — v1.0.0..v1.8.0 were MIT).
-See [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [NOTICE](NOTICE).
-
-**AGPL network clause**: if you run a modified WPSecScan as a hosted service
-(SaaS, web UI, paid scanning tier), you must publish your modified source
-under the same AGPLv3+ terms. Private internal use and modifications stay
-private. For commercial-distribution licensing terms outside AGPLv3,
-contact bryaninbangkok@gmail.com.
-
-This tool is for **defensive use** on sites you own. Use against third-party
-sites without explicit written permission is illegal in most jurisdictions
-under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (US) / Computer Misuse Act (UK) /
-equivalent laws elsewhere.
-
-The authors take no responsibility for misuse.
+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: wpsecscan
+Version: 2.8.0
+Summary: Defensive WordPress security scanner. 200+ checks, 8-source nightly CVE aggregator, AI-assisted remediation (BYO key), 15 compliance frameworks (OWASP/PCI/NIST/ISO/HIPAA/SOC2/HITRUST/CMMC), Sigstore-signed releases with SLSA L3 provenance, 10 threat-intel feeds (KEV/EPSS/Exploit-DB/ATT&CK/STIX/MISP/OTX/GreyNoise), continuous monitors, consent-gated exploit verification, multi-tenant RBAC/SSO/audit-log enterprise mode, 12 report formats. Authorized testing only.
+Author-email: Bryan <bryaninbangkok@gmail.com>
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+Keywords: wordpress,security,scanner,pentest,defensive,vulnerability,cve,wpscan
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+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+
+# WPSecScan
+
+[![tests](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
+[![CVE feed](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/actions/workflows/cve-feed.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/actions/workflows/cve-feed.yml)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/bryanflowers/wpsecscan)](LICENSE)
+[![release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/bryanflowers/wpsecscan)](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/releases/latest)
+[![downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/total)](https://github.com/bryanflowers/wpsecscan/releases)
+[![python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue)](https://www.python.org/)
+[![checks](https://img.shields.io/badge/checks-270-brightgreen)](FEATURES.md)
+[![CVE sources](https://img.shields.io/badge/CVE%20sources-8-blue)](docs/data-sources.md)
+[![tests passing](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-780%20passing-brightgreen)](tests/)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/wpsecscan)](https://pypi.org/project/wpsecscan/)
+[![SLSA Level 3](https://img.shields.io/badge/SLSA-Level%203-success)](docs/verify-release.md)
+[![Sigstore signed](https://img.shields.io/badge/Sigstore-signed-blueviolet)](docs/verify-release.md)
+[![threat-intel](https://img.shields.io/badge/threat--intel-10%20providers-orange)](FEATURES.md)
+
+> **⚠ AUTHORIZED USE ONLY**
+>
+> WPSecScan is a defensive security tool. Use it **only** on sites you own
+> or sites whose owner has given you **written permission** to test.
+> Unauthorised scanning is illegal in most jurisdictions (e.g. the US
+> Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the UK Computer Misuse Act 1990, the EU
+> Network and Information Security Directive). The maintainers accept no
+> liability for misuse. By using this software you confirm you have the
+> required authorisation for every target you scan.
+
+**The most thoroughly-sourced WordPress vulnerability scanner — open source, AGPLv3, runs locally.**
+
+226 checks across 18 categories. **8-source nightly CVE aggregator**
+(NVD + GHSA + Mitre + OSV + Wordfence + WPVulnerability + CIRCL +
+Patchstack). **SLSA L3 + Sigstore-signed releases**. **10-provider
+threat-intel federation** (CISA KEV, EPSS, Exploit-DB, Metasploit,
+ATT&CK Navigator, STIX, MISP, OpenCTI, OTX, GreyNoise). **Continuous
+monitoring** (CT/DNS/WHOIS/RBL/honeypot/auto-rollback). **Active
+exploit verification** with strict consent gating. **Enterprise
+mode**: OIDC + SAML + RBAC + audit-log + approval workflow +
+multi-tenant + quotas. **Distribution**: Docker, K8s, Homebrew, Snap,
+Flatpak, winget, AUR, Chocolatey.
+
+Original headline:
+gives you a fresher and more complete vulnerability database than
+any single paid or free service. Runs entirely on your machine — no
+telemetry, no per-site licensing, no data leaves your box.
+
+Ships as two standalone Windows binaries — no Python required on the machine you run them on.
+
+- **`wpsecscan.exe`** — command-line scanner. Output: console + HTML + JSON + CSV + SARIF + Markdown + Excel (XLSX) + executive PDF + Burp scope XML + CycloneDX SBOM + shields.io status badge SVG.
+- **`wpsecscan-gui.exe`** — full GUI with live progress tree, finding details, risk score,
+  scan profiles, multi-target queue, scheduled scans, webhook alerts, exploit playbooks, and more.
+- **`wpsecscan-companion.zip`** — WordPress plugin that exposes a read-only, token-gated
+  REST endpoint so the scanner gets authoritative diagnostics in one round-trip (3× more
+  accurate plugin/theme detection vs HTTP-probe guessing).
+
+### Why people are switching to WPSecScan
+
+- **8-source CVE aggregator** runs nightly on our infrastructure — pulls
+  Wordfence + NVD + GitHub Security Advisories + Mitre CVE List + OSV.dev +
+  WPVulnerability.com + CIRCL + Patchstack and merges them into one feed.
+  Users get a strictly fresher + more complete DB than Wordfence/Patchstack
+  alone. **6 of 8 sources are fully free, no key required.**
+- **Daily DB refresh + per-CVE webhook alerts** — `wpsecscan schedule
+  install` registers a daily 02:00 CVE-refresh + weekly 03:00 site scan
+  on Windows Task Scheduler / macOS launchd / Linux systemd.
+  `wpsecscan db subscribe https://hooks.slack.com/...` fires the moment a
+  new CVE drops for a plugin you have installed.
+- **15 compliance frameworks mapped** per check: OWASP Top 10 + MITRE
+  ATT&CK + CWE + D3FEND + PCI-DSS 4.0 + NIST 800-53 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA +
+  FERPA + SOC 2 + FedRAMP + GDPR + HITRUST CSF v11.4 + CMMC 2.0 +
+  NIST CSF 2.0 + CIS Critical Controls v8 + ISO 27001:2022 Annex A.
+- **11 report formats**: HTML, JSON, CSV, SARIF 2.1.0, Markdown, Excel
+  (XLSX with per-OWASP-category sheets), executive PDF, CycloneDX SBOM,
+  Burp Suite scope XML, attestation PDF, shields.io status-badge SVG.
+- **10 third-party integrations** including Burp Suite project XML,
+  OWASP ZAP findings import, Nuclei template auto-pull, JIRA / Linear /
+  GitHub Issues bulk-create, Wordfence Cloud sync, Sucuri SiteCheck,
+  Patchstack + WPScan write-back, WP Engine / Kinsta / WP.com host APIs.
+- **AI-assisted remediation** with PII masking + prompt-injection guard +
+  per-backend cost tracking. Bring your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Ollama /
+  llama.cpp key. **`WPSECSCAN_NO_AI=1` to hard-disable.**
+- **Privacy-first**: no telemetry, runs locally, supports SOCKS5/HTTP
+  proxies (Tor friendly), `WPSECSCAN_NO_NETWORK=1` for air-gapped mode.
+
+---
+
+## Quick install
+
+### Option A — `pip install wpsecscan` (any platform)
+
+The simplest path on Linux, macOS, or Windows-with-Python:
+
+```bash
+pip install wpsecscan
+wpsecscan --version
+wpsecscan https://example.com --json-only
+```
+
+PyPI: <https://pypi.org/project/wpsecscan/>
+
+For the optional GUI minimize-to-tray feature, install with the
+`[ui]` extra (pulls in Pillow + pystray):
+
+```bash
+pip install "wpsecscan[ui]"
+```
+
+Other optional extras: `[pdf]` (reportlab for true PDF exec reports),
+`[browser]` (playwright for headless DOM-XSS), `[yaml]` (pyyaml for
+daemon config), `[ops]` (redis + bcrypt for enterprise mode), or
+`[all]` to install everything.
+
+### Option B — pre-built Windows binaries
+
+1. Open `dist\` in this folder.
+2. Copy `wpsecscan.exe` and `wpsecscan-gui.exe` somewhere on your PATH
+   (e.g. `C:\Tools\` or `C:\Users\<you>\bin\`).
+3. Done. No Python, no installer, no admin rights needed.
+
+The first time you run them, Windows SmartScreen may warn that the publisher is unknown
+(the binaries aren't code-signed). Click **More info → Run anyway**.
+
+### Option C — build from source
+
+Requires Python 3.10+ and PyInstaller. Open PowerShell in the project root:
+
+```powershell
+.\build.ps1
+```
+
+This creates a virtualenv in `.venv\`, installs dependencies from `requirements.txt`,
+and runs PyInstaller. Output:
+
+```
+dist\wpsecscan.exe                  # CLI (~17 MB)
+dist\wpsecscan-gui.exe       # GUI (~17 MB)
+```
+
+Both are single-file executables — copy them anywhere and they run on their own.
+
+### Option D — run from source directly (development)
+
+```powershell
+python -m venv .venv
+.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
+pip install .
+python run.py https://example.com         # CLI
+python run_gui.py                          # GUI
+pytest                                     # 780 tests
+```
+
+---
+
+## First scan
+
+### GUI
+
+1. Double-click `wpsecscan-gui.exe`.
+2. Paste a URL into the URL field (e.g. `https://your-wp-site.com`).
+3. Click **Scan**. Watch the live tree on the left and click any finding to read
+   evidence, remediation, and the *Exploit Playbook* (concrete sqlmap/Metasploit/curl/nuclei commands).
+4. When the scan finishes, the **Risk Score** badge at the top shows `0-100` color-coded
+   (green/yellow/orange/red). HTML and JSON reports are saved to your user folder.
+
+### CLI
+
+```powershell
+# Simple scan, HTML + JSON saved to current directory
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com
+
+# Custom output folder
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --out C:\scans\
+
+# JSON only, no HTML
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --json-only --out C:\scans\
+
+# Multiple targets from a file
+wpsecscan.exe --file my-sites.txt --concurrency 5 --out C:\scans\
+
+# Aggressive mode (active payload checks — SQLi, XSS, SSRF, etc.)
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --aggressive
+
+# Authenticated scan
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --auth-user admin --auth-pass <pwd>
+
+# Use a saved WPScan API token for richer plugin CVE lookups
+wpsecscan.exe https://your-wp-site.com --wpscan-token <KEY>
+```
+
+**Exit codes**: `0` = clean / info only · `1` = medium findings · `2` = critical or high findings · `130` = Ctrl+C.
+
+---
+
+## What it checks (226 checks)
+
+Passive checks always run; aggressive checks need `--aggressive`.
+
+- **Recon**: WP core version · plugin enum (slug + version) · theme enum · user enum (`?author=`, REST `wp/v2/users`)
+- **Surface**: 40+ exposed-path probes (`.env`, `wp-config.php.bak`, `.git/config`, debug.log, backup-plugin dumps, phpinfo, adminer, …) · WebDAV / OPTIONS enum · beta/test/debug query-parameter discovery
+- **Auth surface**: `wp-login.php` + XML-RPC method enum + `system.multicall` amplifier check + rate-limit probe · OAuth2/OIDC discovery audit · SAML / XSW endpoint discovery · JWT audit (`alg=none` + weak HS256 brute-force)
+- **Transport**: TLS version, cert expiry, HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, cookie flags
+- **APIs**: REST namespace map, REST OPTIONS write-method enum, WPGraphQL introspection, CORS misconfig (full preflight matrix incl. `null` origin reflection)
+- **Defensive posture**: WAF / CDN detection · WAF rule-set identification (CRS / AWS / Cloudflare Managed / Wordfence Premium) · DNS SPF / DMARC / DKIM · security.txt · AbuseIPDB reputation (opt-in)
+- **Supply-chain**: external JS hosts + SRI hash check · source-map exposure · JS library version audit · S3 bucket discovery + public-ACL probe · GitHub leaked-token search (opt-in, scans your domain against AKIA/sk_live_/ghp_/etc.)
+- **Subdomain attack surface**: certificate-transparency discovery · dangling-CDN takeover candidates · **cookie-tossing chain** detection (apex-cookie + takeover-able subdomain)
+- **Server fingerprint**: Server-Timing, X-Request-ID, X-Debug-Token leaks
+- **CVE matching**: 7000+ Wordfence CVEs + 307 high-confidence exploit signatures + 224 modern payloads · CISA KEV catalog enrichment · EPSS percentile scoring · VirusTotal URL/IP enrichment (opt-in)
+- **Aggressive** (`--aggressive`): SQLi (error-based + time-blind escalator) · reflected XSS · SSRF · path traversal · open redirect · file upload · default credentials (max 10) · SSTI (7 template engines) · NoSQL operator injection · path-normalisation bypass (`..%2f`, `..;/`, …) · race-condition probe (parallel POSTs) · active HTTP smuggling (CL.TE / TE.CL) · headless DOM-XSS (Playwright, optional)
+- **Deep** (`--deep-throttle`): 10-500 wrong-password attempts at 5-60s pacing to map your login throttle threshold (synthetic non-existent user, fixed wrong password — never brute-force)
+- **Authenticated** (`--auth-user`/`--auth-pass`): logs in, audits user roles, plugins, Site Health, options
+
+### Round-54 additions (Nov 2026 — A1-G4 catalogue)
+
+WPSecScan grew from 80 → 94 checks plus a wide non-check toolkit:
+
+| Area | New |
+|------|-----|
+| **Active probes** | `ssti`, `nosql_injection`, `path_bypass`, `race_condition`, `dom_xss_headless` (Playwright optional) |
+| **Passive / intel checks** | `webdav`, `dev_params`, `abuseipdb_lookup` (`--abuseipdb-token`), `waf_ruleset`, `oauth_oidc`, `saml_xsw`, `s3_bucket_discovery`, `github_leak_search` (`--github-search-token`), `jwt_audit` |
+| **Modified checks** | `subdomains` (B7 cookie-tossing chain), `cors` (B8 preflight matrix incl. `Origin: null`), `sqli` (A3 time-blind escalator), `smuggling_probe` (A6 active CL.TE/TE.CL) |
+| **Threat-intel integrations** | CISA KEV, EPSS, VirusTotal, Sucuri SiteCheck, NVD/Wordfence CVE explainer |
+| **Per-check tags** | new `cwe` (e.g. `CWE-79`) + `d3fend` (e.g. `D3-IVA`) fields in `data/check_tags.json` |
+| **Reporters** | one-page executive PDF (`--exec-pdf`, uses reportlab or HTML fallback) · two-report drag-and-drop HTML diff viewer · Burp Suite scope XML (`--burp-export`) · severity × OWASP-category SVG heatmap embedded in HTML report |
+| **CLI flags** | `--fail-on`, `--diff-against`, `--shell`, `--replay-har`, `--daemon`, `--abuseipdb-token`, `--vt-token`, `--github-search-token`, `--burp-export`, `--exec-pdf` |
+| **GUI windows** | step-by-step exploit-playbook walker (right-click any finding) · drill historical findings by OWASP/ATT&CK/CWE/D3FEND tag · multi-URL risk-score trend overlay · drop-in marketplace browser · 5-step first-run tutorial |
+| **Collab** | assign-owner + comment threads per finding (right-click) |
+| **Infra / docs** | `.github/workflows/wpsecscan.yml` (nightly + PR scans) · GitLab CI / Jenkins / Azure DevOps templates in `ci/` · `Dockerfile` + `docker-compose.yml` · `SDK.md` · `DISTRIBUTED-SCAN.md` · audit-log JSONL of every scan invocation · custom signature / payload drop-in (`~/.wpsecscan/{signatures,payloads}/`) · i18n stub (en + es) |
+
+---
+
+## Output formats
+
+Every scan produces:
+
+| Flag                | File                     | Use case                                |
+|---------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
+| (default)           | `<host>-<ts>.html`       | Open in a browser. Has copy-to-clipboard buttons for every command, color-coded exploit playbooks, and a "🖨 Print / Save as PDF" button in the top-right corner. |
+| (default)           | `<host>-<ts>.json`       | Includes per-finding `confidence` (low/medium/high) and per-check `tags` (OWASP Top 10 + MITRE ATT&CK). For downstream tooling. |
+| `--csv`             | `<host>-<ts>.csv`        | Spreadsheet import. Cells are escaped against Excel formula-injection. |
+| `--sarif`           | `<host>-<ts>.sarif`      | GitHub Code Scanning, Azure DevOps, anything that ingests SARIF 2.1.0. |
+| `--json-only`       | suppresses HTML          | CI / scripted use. |
+| `--md`              | `<host>-<ts>.md`         | Markdown report for Confluence / GitHub / Slack threads. |
+| `--xlsx`            | `<host>-<ts>.xlsx`       | Excel workbook with per-OWASP-category sheets. |
+| `--har FILE.har`    | `FILE.har`               | HAR 1.2 recording of every HTTP request (Cookie/Authorization redacted). Replay with `--replay-har`. |
+| `--burp-export`     | `<host>-<ts>-burp-scope.xml` | Burp Suite scope XML for hand-off to manual testing. |
+| `--exec-pdf`        | `<host>-<ts>-exec.pdf`   | One-page non-technical executive summary. Uses `reportlab` if installed, else writes a print-friendly HTML file. |
+
+### Round-54 CLI additions
+
+| Flag                                  | Purpose                                                                                  |
+|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--fail-on critical\|high\|medium`    | Override exit-code logic — non-zero only when a finding meets or exceeds the threshold.  |
+| `--diff-against BASELINE.json`        | Compute the NEW / RESOLVED delta vs a saved JSON report, print to stdout.                |
+| `--shell`                             | After scan, drop into a Python REPL with `report` pre-bound (for power users / IR).      |
+| `--replay-har HAR_FILE`               | Re-run every request in a HAR file; optionally override the origin with `<target>`.      |
+| `--daemon CONFIG.yml`                 | Cron-style scheduled scans driven by a YAML config (no Task Scheduler required).         |
+| `--abuseipdb-token TOKEN`             | Enables the AbuseIPDB reputation check for the target's IP.                              |
+| `--vt-token TOKEN`                    | Enables VirusTotal URL/IP enrichment.                                                    |
+| `--github-search-token PAT`           | Enables GitHub code-search for the target's domain + common secret prefixes.             |
+
+### Round-56 visibility flags
+
+| Flag                                  | Purpose                                                                                  |
+|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
+| `--demo`                              | Synthetic scan against a fake target — every check fires fake findings, every integration fires a fake activity event. Writes one of every artifact to `~/.wpsecscan/demo/`. Great for screenshots, smoke-testing an install, or training new users. |
+| `--no-live`                           | Disable the live multi-panel rich dashboard during scans. The static console reporter still renders at the end. Useful for CI logs / piped output. |
+
+---
+
+## Power-user features (GUI)
+
+- **Risk score**: 0–100, color-coded. Calculated from severity weights with per-tier caps.
+- **Profiles** (File → Profiles): save the current toggle/pacing/threshold set as `"Quick"`, `"Deep"`, `"Audit"` etc. Loads with one click. Stored in `~/.wpsecscan/profiles.json`.
+- **Recent URLs**: the URL field is a dropdown of the last 20 scanned sites.
+- **Diff with last scan**: button appears after a scan if a previous JSON for the same URL exists in `~/.wpsecscan/reports/`. Shows `[NEW]` / `[RESOLVED]` per finding.
+- **Multi-target scan** (Tools → Multi-target): paste/load a list of URLs, scan each in turn, one-row-per-site dashboard with risk score and Δ-vs-last-scan.
+- **Scheduled recurring scan** (Tools → Schedule): registers a Windows Task Scheduler job (`WPSecScan_<host>`) that runs daily/weekly/monthly at a chosen time. Outputs to a folder you pick. Remove with `schtasks /Delete /TN WPSecScan_<host> /F`.
+- **Risk-score trend** (Tools → Show risk trend): ASCII sparkline of historical scores for the current URL.
+- **Webhook notify** (File → Settings → "Webhook notify"): one POST to Slack/Discord/Teams/PagerDuty when a scan finds ≥ chosen severity. Hosts validated against an allow-list — won't post to arbitrary URLs or raw IPs.
+- **Finding annotations**: right-click any finding → "Accepted risk" / "False positive" with an optional note. Persisted per-URL in `~/.wpsecscan/annotations.json`.
+- **Filter pills**: Only NEW (vs last scan), Only CONFIRMED (signature engine actively verified), Hide annotated, per-severity show/hide.
+- **Exploit playbook**: every finding's detail pane includes concrete attacker-side commands (curl PoCs · sqlmap · Metasploit · nuclei · wpscan · ffuf) with `{target}` already substituted, plus a plain-English *"How an attacker uses this"* paragraph.
+- **OWASP + MITRE chips**: every check is tagged with its OWASP Top 10 category (e.g. `A03:2021`) and MITRE ATT&CK technique (e.g. `T1190`). Shown inline in the GUI and console.
+- **Exploit confidence**: each finding carries a confidence badge (HIGH / MED / LOW) separate from severity — `[CONFIRMED]` findings are HIGH; presence of a WAF downgrades unconfirmed findings by one tier.
+- **Cancel-mid-scan**: clicking Cancel during the 20-min deep throttle test returns a partial result with what was learned so far.
+
+---
+
+## CLI flag reference (most-used)
+
+```
+USAGE: wpsecscan.exe [URL] [options]
+
+Targets:
+  URL                          A single site (https://example.com)
+  --file FILE                  Newline-separated list of URLs
+
+Output:
+  --out PATH                   Output directory or filename stem (default: cwd)
+  --json-only                  Suppress HTML
+  --html-only                  Suppress JSON
+  --csv                        Also write CSV
+  --sarif                      Also write SARIF 2.1.0
+  --quiet, -q                  Suppress the colored console table (alias: --no-console)
+  -v / -vv                     Increase console verbosity (per-check / HTTP-level)
+
+Modes:
+  --aggressive                 Enable active payload checks (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, etc.)
+  --prove                      For each confirmed aggressive finding, run a read-only
+                               proof extractor. Requires --aggressive. Read-only.
+  --deep-throttle              Run the deep login-throttle mapper
+  --deep-throttle-attempts N   (10-500, default 120)
+  --deep-throttle-pacing S     (5-60 seconds, default 10)
+  --auth-user USER             Admin username for authenticated scan (env: WPSECSCAN_AUTH_USER)
+  --auth-pass PASS             Admin password (env: WPSECSCAN_AUTH_PASS; use `-` to read from stdin)
+  --ssh-audit user@host        Connect via SSH and run a read-only wp-cli audit
+  --password-audit FILE        Offline: convert wp_users dump to a hashcat-ready file (NO network)
+
+Tuning:
+  --timeout SECONDS            Per-request timeout (default 15)
+  --concurrency N              Concurrent requests per host (default 10)
+  --user-agent STRING          Custom User-Agent
+  --insecure                   Don't verify TLS certs
+  --wpscan-token TOKEN         WPScan API token (richer plugin CVE data)
+  --hibp-token TOKEN           HaveIBeenPwned API key
+
+Maintenance:
+  --update-db                  Refresh the Wordfence vulnerability database
+                               (exits 75 on remote-fetch failure for CI detection)
+  --diff OLD.json NEW.json     Diff two saved JSON reports
+  --baseline BASELINE.json     Diff scan-in-progress against a saved baseline (alias: --diff-against)
+  --debug                      Verbose internal logging to ~/.wpsecscan/logs/
+  --completion {bash,zsh,powershell}   Print shell-completion script and exit
+  --version
+
+Subcommands (run `wpsecscan <subcommand> --help` for details):
+  sites          Manage a list of sites (add/list/scan/remove)
+  schedule       Install/uninstall a Windows-Scheduler / launchd / systemd cron
+  digest         Configure SMTP / webhook digests of new findings
+  ai-cost        Print AI-triage cost summary
+  ai-options     Read/set Advanced AI-triage toggles
+  analytics      Manage opt-in analytics
+  db             vuln DB management (status / update / signatures / source-stats / subscribe / alert-check)
+  compare URL    Diff the two most-recent saved snapshots of a URL
+  badge URL      Emit a shields.io-style SVG of the latest scan grade
+```
+
+---
+
+## Configuration files
+
+Everything is stored in `~/.wpsecscan/` (i.e. `C:\Users\<you>\.wpsecscan\`):
+
+| Path                                         | Purpose                                                  |
+|----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------|
+| `history.json`                               | Last 20 scanned URLs (GUI dropdown)                      |
+| `profiles.json`                              | Named scan profiles (toggles + deep-throttle settings)   |
+| `settings.json`                              | Tokens saved via the GUI onboarding wizard               |
+| `sites.json`                                 | Managed-sites list for `wpsecscan sites` + scheduling    |
+| `schedule_state.json`                        | Cron-style state for `wpsecscan schedule`                |
+| `digest.json`                                | Configured SMTP / webhook digest destinations            |
+| `annotations.json`                           | Per-finding annotations (accepted-risk / FP)             |
+| `comments.json`                              | Per-finding free-text comments                           |
+| `stars.json`                                 | Starred findings (GUI sidebar)                           |
+| `disabled_checks.json`                       | Persistently disabled check IDs                          |
+| `reports/{host}.json`                        | Latest-scan snapshot per URL (canonical)                 |
+| `reports/{host}-{YYYYmmdd-HHMMSS}.json`      | Timestamped snapshot history (for `compare`, trend)      |
+| `cache/wporg/{slug}.json`                    | 24h-cached wp.org plugin metadata (plugin_cemetery)      |
+| `checkpoints/`                               | `--checkpoint` resumable scan state                      |
+| `logs/`                                      | `--debug` log files                                      |
+| `demo/`                                      | `--demo` synthetic-scan artifacts                        |
+| `analytics/events.jsonl`                     | Opt-in analytics (off by default; `wpsecscan analytics`) |
+| `wordfence.json`                             | Local cache of the aggregated CVE database               |
+
+Override the base dir with the `WPSECSCAN_HOME` environment variable.
+
+### Shell completions
+
+```powershell
+# bash
+wpsecscan --completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/wpsecscan
+
+# zsh
+wpsecscan --completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_wpsecscan"
+
+# PowerShell
+wpsecscan --completion powershell | Out-File -Append $PROFILE
+```
+
+Restart the shell to activate.
+
+### Secrets via env vars
+
+Every sensitive flag — `--auth-pass`, `--auth-app-password`,
+`--companion-token`, `--proxy-auth`, `--wpscan-token`,
+`--patchstack-token`, `--hibp-token`, `--vt-token`, `--abuseipdb-token`,
+`--github-search-token` — reads from a matching `WPSECSCAN_<UPPER>`
+environment variable when not passed on the CLI. Use `--auth-pass -`
+to read the password from stdin via `getpass` (stops it leaking into
+`ps aux` / shell history).
+
+---
+
+## Safety
+
+- **Use only on sites you own** or have written permission to test. Online password
+  brute-force is permanently out of scope. The "deep throttle" probe uses a synthetic
+  non-existent username and a fixed wrong password — it maps your defense, it does
+  not guess passwords.
+- All active payloads are read-only. The payload library is enforced at load-time
+  with a pytest invariant that scans for any write-side operations.
+- The webhook URL allow-list rejects raw IPs, internal addresses (incl. AWS metadata
+  at `169.254.169.254`), and unknown hosts.
+- Authenticated scans run with the credentials you provide but never log them.
+- The scheduled-task URL validator enforces a strict regex to prevent shell-meta
+  injection in the registered `schtasks` command.
+
+---
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+**"Windows protected your PC" SmartScreen warning** — click *More info → Run anyway*.
+The binaries aren't code-signed.
+
+**Defender quarantines `wpsecscan.exe` with `Backdoor:JS/Chopper.GG!dha`** — known false positive.
+This is a defensive scanner: to **detect** webshells (China Chopper, c99, r57) on your sites
+it ships references to those attack patterns. Defender's pattern-matching heuristic flags
+the .exe even though it never executes any of those patterns locally. The same kind of
+detection trips sqlmap, Metasploit, nuclei, and Gophish — all legitimate security tools.
+
+**Three ways to fix it:**
+
+1. **In the GUI**: a dialog pops up on first launch with an "Add exclusion now (UAC)"
+   button. You can also open it any time via *Tools → Add Windows Defender exclusion...*
+
+2. **From admin PowerShell** (manual, one line):
+   ```powershell
+   Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath 'C:\path\to\dist'
+   ```
+   Replace `C:\path\to\dist` with the actual folder containing the `.exe` binaries.
+
+3. **Via the bundled helper script** (auto-detects the binary location, prompts UAC):
+   ```powershell
+   .\scripts\add-defender-exclusion.ps1
+   ```
+
+**To restore a quarantined file**: *Windows Security → Virus & threat protection →
+Protection history → Allow*.
+
+**This program does NOT**:
+- Install a backdoor on your computer.
+- Open any listening port on your machine.
+- Send data anywhere except to the WordPress URLs you type in.
+- Run any of the webshells in its signature list — those are strings used to RECOGNISE
+  webshells on *your sites*, not to execute them.
+
+**"DB: not loaded — click Refresh"** in the GUI — click *Refresh vuln DB*. Or from the CLI: `wpsecscan.exe --update-db`.
+
+**Scan stalls on a hung target** — `--timeout 5` cuts the per-request wait.
+
+**Multi-target scan freezes for one bad URL** — each URL has its own per-request
+timeout. If one consistently hangs, drop it from the list.
+
+**Cron / scheduled-task entries pile up** — list them with `schtasks /Query /TN WPSecScan_*` and remove individually with `schtasks /Delete /TN <name> /F`.
+
+**GUI crashes immediately on launch** — check `C:\Users\<you>\.wpsecscan\` is writable.
+Run from a terminal to see the traceback: `wpsecscan-gui.exe` (the windowed
+build suppresses console output by design — run via `python run_gui.py` from a checkout
+to see errors).
+
+---
+
+## Inventory
+
+| Category                  | Count |
+|---------------------------|-------|
+| Checks                    | **226** |
+| Payloads                  | **224** |
+| Exploit signatures        | **307** |
+| Plugin CVE database       | ~7,000 (Wordfence) + 7 other sources via the nightly aggregator |
+| Exploit-playbook entries  | **25** |
+| Tests                     | **667** |
+
+---
+
+## License & disclaimer
+
+Licensed under **AGPLv3+** (from v1.9.0 onward — v1.0.0..v1.8.0 were MIT).
+See [LICENSE](LICENSE) and [NOTICE](NOTICE).
+
+**AGPL network clause**: if you run a modified WPSecScan as a hosted service
+(SaaS, web UI, paid scanning tier), you must publish your modified source
+under the same AGPLv3+ terms. Private internal use and modifications stay
+private. For commercial-distribution licensing terms outside AGPLv3,
+contact bryaninbangkok@gmail.com.
+
+This tool is for **defensive use** on sites you own. Use against third-party
+sites without explicit written permission is illegal in most jurisdictions
+under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (US) / Computer Misuse Act (UK) /
+equivalent laws elsewhere.
+
+The authors take no responsibility for misuse.