Re: PenTest Web Forum

[tomas <toomaaas () gmail com>]

i'll do a shellscript:

ip.txt with all the ips
req.txt with a http request

cat ip.txt | while read line; do echo $line runs: `nc $line 80 <
req.txt |grep phpBB |grep version`;done

would echo 127.0.0.1 runs phpBB version 2.0.1

if you run *nix ofcourse!

On 6/20/06, huelsbeck () cox net <huelsbeck () cox net> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get an online forums type and version from a server?
> For instance, something to scan a server from the outside and say that a forum on a site is running on  phpBB 2.0.21. 
> This would be useful for a sweep to see if all forum softwares were up to date. I have never seen anything that would 
> do this, or any listings of signatures that would point to what forum type/version was running. Anyone ever deal with 
> this? Is this a nube question? (Let the bashings begin!) :)
> -Harry
>
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