Script `http-config-backup`

Script types: portrule
Categories: auth, intrusive
Download: https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/scripts/http-config-backup.nse

Script Summary

Checks for backups and swap files of common content management system and web server configuration files.

When web server files are edited in place, the text editor can leave backup or swap files in a place where the web server can serve them. The script checks for these files:

wp-config.php: WordPress
config.php: phpBB, ExpressionEngine
configuration.php: Joomla
LocalSettings.php: MediaWiki
/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php: MediaWiki
mt-config.cgi: Movable Type
mt-static/mt-config.cgi: Movable Type
settings.php: Drupal
.htaccess: Apache

And for each of these file applies the following transformations (using config.php as an example):

config.bak: Generic backup.
config.php.bak: Generic backup.
config.php~: Vim, Gedit.
#config.php#: Emacs.
config copy.php: Mac OS copy.
Copy of config.php: Windows copy.
config.php.save: GNU Nano.
.config.php.swp: Vim swap.
config.php.swp: Vim swap.
config.php.old: Generic backup.

This script is inspired by the CMSploit program by Feross Aboukhadijeh: http://www.feross.org/cmsploit/.

Script Arguments

http-config-backup.save: directory to save all the valid config files found
http-config-backup.path: the path where the CMS is installed
slaxml.debug: See the documentation for the slaxml library.
smbdomain, smbhash, smbnoguest, smbpassword, smbtype, smbusername: See the documentation for the smbauth library.
http.host, http.max-body-size, http.max-cache-size, http.max-pipeline, http.pipeline, http.truncated-ok, http.useragent: See the documentation for the http library.

Example Usage

nmap --script=http-config-backup <target>

Script Output

PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack
| http-config-backup:
|   /%23wp-config.php%23 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
|_  /config.php~ HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Requires

Author:

Riccardo Cecolin