app hung, possibly on updating

[digininja]

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Subject of the issue

I'd not used WPScan on a box for quite a while, when I ran it, I got this and the app hung:

$ wpscan --url https://www.site.com
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         __          _______   _____
         \ \        / /  __ \ / ____|
          \ \  /\  / /| |__) | (___   ___  __ _ _ __ ®
           \ \/  \/ / |  ___/ \___ \ / __|/ _` | '_ \
            \  /\  /  | |     ____) | (__| (_| | | | |
             \/  \/   |_|    |_____/ \___|\__,_|_| |_|

         WordPress Security Scanner by the WPScan Team
                         Version 3.8.17
       Sponsored by Automattic - https://automattic.com/
       @_WPScan_, @ethicalhack3r, @erwan_lr, @firefart
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[i] It seems like you have not updated the database for some time.

Gave it a few minutes then killed it, ran with --update which finished in seconds, then tried scanning the site again and it worked fine.

Your environment

• Version of WPScan: 3.8.17
• Version of Ruby: 3.0.0
• Operating System (OS): Debian

Steps to reproduce

Can't reproduce it

Expected behavior

It may have been doing some updates, but was doing them for a long time if it was. No progress indicator or anything.

Actual behavior

It hung.

What have you already tried

Nothing

Things you have tried (where relevant):

• Update WPScan to the latest version [ ]
• Update Ruby to the latest version [ ]
• Ensure you can reach the target site using cURL [ ]
• Proxied WPScan through a HTTP proxy to view the raw traffic [ ]
• Ensure you are using a supported Operating System (Linux and macOS) [ ]

[digininja]

Just realised, this was an older version. Unfortunately I can't reproduce it as it happened as it hadn't been ran for a while.

Feel free to close this, just reporting in case it is something obvious.

[erwanlr]

It's weird, another line should have been printed after this one, asking if you wanted to update the DB or not (https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/blob/master/app/controllers/core.rb#L40), so as you did not type anything like Yes / Y or No / N or pressed Enter, then it was waiting for input, hence the hanging

[digininja]

Ye, I was expecting the question but it never came.

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, 21:41 Erwan, ***@***.***> wrote: It's weird, another line should have been printed after this one, asking if you wanted to update the DB or not ( https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/blob/master/app/controllers/core.rb#L40), so as you did not type anything like Yes / Y or No / N or pressed Enter, then it was waiting for input, hence the hanging feeling — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1724 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAA4SWKIOXFX26JMU2FBCBTVGWWVTANCNFSM5UGXWKTQ> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>