Vulnerability Extension does not seem to be working with WPScan DB

hi there!

i can’t seem to get the Vulnerability Extension working correctly using the WPScan DB.

i have created the API key on https://wpscan.com/ and entered it in the extension’s settings.

checking a site returns the message “Checked successfully!” and shows no vulnerabilites, but the check does not seem to be actually working. here is why:

  • the tested site definitely has vulnerabilities, which are reported by the WPScan extension installed with the site.
  • in the backend at wpscan.com, i do not see any usage of the API in the “API requests in the past 24 hours”.
  • checking all (50+) sites in MainWP again results in “Checked successfully!” messages for all of them, but no vulnerabilites are shown (though there are definitely vulnerabilities present). and again these checks do not seem to count towards the daily API request limit of the used token.

do you have any idea, what could be wrong here? is this extension currently broken using WPScan DB? it seems to be working correctly using the MainWP NVD API.

best wishes and many thanks,
gerald.

here is the system report:


### WordPress Check                Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  256M                                         Pass        
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  6.1.1                                        Pass        

### PHP                            Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/1.1.0                                        OpenSSL/1.1.1f                               Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          60                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.29.0                                               7.68.0                                       Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP Disabled Functions             N/A                                                    opcache_get_status,                                      
PHP Exif Support                   N/A                                                    YES ( V8.1.)                                             
PHP IPTC Support                   N/A                                                    YES                                                      
PHP Loaded Extensions              N/A                                                    Core, PDO, PDO_ODBC, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dba, dom, enchant, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, iconv, imagick, imap, intl, json, ldap, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, odbc, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_pgsql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, posix, pspell, redis, session, soap, sockets, sodium, sqlite3, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tidy, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib            
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           30                                           Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           60                                           Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 256M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Version                        >=7.0                                                  8.1.12                                       Pass        
PHP XML Support                    N/A                                                    YES                                                      
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                                                             Pass        

### MySQL                          Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MySQL Client Encoding              N/A                                                    utf8                                                     
MySQL Mode                         N/A                                                    ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION            
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  10.3.34-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.20.04.1             Pass        

### Server Configuration           Detected Value                                      ###

Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Memory Usage                       4.02 MB                                                
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Request Time                       1675848658                                             
Server Protocol                    HTTP/1.0                                               
Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body: 401 Authorization Required


Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.  Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn't understand how to supply
the credentials required.


Web Server at @domain_name@
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

### MainWP Dashboard Settings      Detected Value                                      ###

Abandoned plugins/themes tolerance 365                                                    
Basic uptime monitoring enabled    Yes                                                    
Cache control enabled              No                                                     
MainWP Dashboard Version           Latest: 4.3.1 | Detected: 4.3.1 Pass                   
MainWP legacy backups enabled      No                                                     
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum simultaneous install and update requests                                                       
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Maximum simultaneous sync requests                                                        
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Number of child sites              52                                                     
Optimize for shared hosting or big networksNo                                                     
Plugin advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Primary backup system              MainWP Legacy Backups                                  
REST API enabled                   No                                                     
Site health monitoring enabled     Yes                                                    
Theme advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Use WP Cron                        Yes                                                    
WP Core advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    

### Extensions                     Version                                                License                                      Status   ###

MainWP Vulnerability Checker Extension4.1.2                                                  Actived                                      Pass        

### Plugin                         Version                                                Status                                    ###

MainWP Dashboard                   4.3.1                                                  Active                                       

Hey @webflorist

Welcome to the MainWP community.

Thank you for reaching out and reporting this issue to us.

We were able to reproduce this issue. The extension appears to be checking the site, however no issues are reported even when they verifiable exist, and the API request count doesn’t get used up in the WPScan.com Dashboard.

The issue has been passed along to our development team and will be fixed in the next version of the Vulnerability Checker extension.

many thanks for the quick reply and confirmation, bojan! i’m looking forward to the new version.

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