Plugin enumeration

Another auxiliary for Metasploit that can be used to enumerate plugins is joomla_plugins. The auxiliary uses a word list to find directory paths to detect various plugins used by Joomla. We can execute the following command to use the plugin enumeration module:

use auxiliary/scanner/http/joomla_plugins

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

The output of show options is shown in the preceding screenshot. Once the module is executed, the script returns the name of the plugins it has discovered, as shown:

By default, the word list at https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/data/wordlists/joomla.txt ...

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