This Python script allows you to detect the Content Management System (CMS) used by a target website, identify common patterns associated with CMSs, scrape the CMS version information from the website, and check for common security issues.
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CMS Detection: The script identifies the CMS used by a target website by checking for common CMS-related patterns.
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Pattern Detection: It also detects and prints common patterns associated with the identified CMS.
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CMS Version Scraping: The script scrapes the CMS version information from the website's HTML.
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Security Assessment: It checks for common security issues associated with CMSs, including weak password usage and exposed sensitive files.
Before using this script, ensure you have the following installed:
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Python 3.x
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Requests library
pip install requests
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BeautifulSoup4 library
pip install beautifulsoup4
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Clone this repository or download the script (cms_detection_security.py) to your local machine.
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Open a terminal and navigate to the directory containing the script.
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Run the script using the following command:
python cms.py
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Enter the target URL in the format https://example.com when prompted.
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The script will perform the following tasks:
- Detect the CMS used by the website.
- Identify common patterns associated with the CMS (if detected).
- Scrape the CMS version information.
- heck for common security issues.
- Review the script's output to see the detected CMS, patterns, CMS version, and security assessment results.
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You can customize the script by adding more CMS patterns to the
cms_patterns dictionary
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To perform additional security checks, modify the
check_security_issues
function as needed. -
For scraping CMS version information, customize the
scrape_cms_version
function based on how the CMS version is indicated in the HTML of the websites you are assessing.