wpscan doesn't run

[stealthsploit]

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Subject of the issue

Error upon running wpscan

Your environment

• Version of WPScan: 3.5.5
• Version of Ruby: ruby 2.5.5p157 (2019-03-15 revision 67260) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
• Operating System (OS): Kali 2019.1 rolling

When running wpscan i'm receiving the below error when scanning an ipv6 wordpress app. Kali was updated/upgraded from a couple of months ago when this was working without problem in a test environment.

`root@xxx:~# wpscan --url http://[fd31:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]:81/wordpress --wp-content-dir wordpress

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    __          _______   _____
    \ \        / /  __ \ / ____|
     \ \  /\  / /| |__) | (___   ___  __ _ _ __ ®
      \ \/  \/ / |  ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \
       \  /\  /  | |     ____) | (__| (_| | | | |
        \/  \/   |_|    |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|

    WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team
                   Version 3.5.3
      Sponsored by Sucuri - https://sucuri.net
  @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, @_FireFart_

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Scan Aborted: no implicit conversion of nil into Array
Trace: /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/target/scope.rb:49:in +' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/target/scope.rb:49:in scope_url_pattern'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/lib/wpscan/target/platform/wordpress/custom_directories.rb:21:in content_dir' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/lib/wpscan/target/platform/wordpress.rb:85:in wordpress_hosted?'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/app/controllers/core.rb:70:in check_wordpress_state' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/app/controllers/core.rb:61:in before_scan'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/controllers.rb:44:in each' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/controllers.rb:44:in block in run'
/usr/lib/ruby/2.5.0/timeout.rb:76:in timeout' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/controllers.rb:43:in run'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/scan.rb:24:in run' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/bin/wpscan:16:in block in <top (required)>'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/cms_scanner-0.5.0/lib/cms_scanner/scan.rb:15:in initialize' /usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/bin/wpscan:6:in new'
/usr/share/rubygems-integration/all/gems/wpscan-3.5.3/bin/wpscan:6:in <top (required)>' /usr/bin/wpscan:23:in load'
/usr/bin/wpscan:23:in <main>' root@xxx:~#

Tried removing and reinstalling using apt, as well as compiling from source and got the same result.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[erwanlr]

Thx for the report. It has been fixed in CMSScanner 0.5.1 just released.

So you have three options to get the fix:

• Use docker (which has the latest code in master of this repo)
• Just update the CMSScanner gem with gem update cms_scanner and run WPScan as usual
• Compiling from source

However, on Kali, the last two options are not really recommended - unless you have a snapshot in case stuff got screwed up.

The fix will be shipped in the next minor version, no ETA so far.

[stealthsploit]

Appreciate the quick response and fix, thanks.

[the-mr]

I have been searching for this specific probelm and fix to it all over google and nothing lead me to this, so i decided to finally search in the issues setion of the main repo and BOOM! lol.

this fix helped a bunch on Parrot OS. Thanks Again

[soufian2017]

tnx alot
keep up the great work team !

[Chandan96100]

An error occurred while installing
nokogiri (1.11.7), and Bundler cannot
continue.

In Gemfile:
wpscan was resolved to 3.8.18, which depends on
cms_scanner was resolved to 0.13.5, which
depends on
nokogiri