wordfence-cli - Wordfence malware and vulnerability scanner comman

项目说明

Wordfence CLI

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> Wordfence CLI is no longer a for new Free or Premium licenses.
> The Free of WF-CLI will reach end-of-life on October 14th, 2026. After that date, the Free will no longer be supported.
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> Current Premium customers may continue to access support, documentation, and applicable downloads through the end of their acti term.

Wordfence CLI is an open source, high performance, multi-process security scanner, written in Python, that quickly scans network filesystems to detect PHP/other malware and WordPress . CLI is parallelizable, can be scheduled, can accept input via pipe, and can pipe output to other commands.

Installation

We have a number of installation methods to install Wordfence CLI in our installation documentation which we'd recommend re to get you scanning for malware in as few steps as possible.

We recommend installing using pip:

pip install wordfence

If you'd like to install Wordfence CLI manually or use CLI for de, you can clone the GitHub repo to your local en:

git clone :wordfence/wordfence-cli.git
cd ./wordfence-cli
pip install .
python main.py

Requirements

Usage

You can run wordfence help for a full list of options that can be passed to Wordfence CLI. Read more about the configuration options that can be passed to Wordfence CLI.

#### Scanning a directory for malware

Recursively scanning the /var/www directory for malware:

wordfence malware-scan /var/www

A full list of examples for the malware scan is included in our documentation.

#### Scanning a WordPress installation for

Scanning the /var/www/wordpress directory for .

wordfence /var/www/wordpress

A full list of examples for the scan is included in our documentation.

Documentation

The full documentation for Wordfence CLI can be found here which includes installation instructions, configuration options, detailed examples, and frequently asked questions.

License

Wordfence CLI is open source, licensed under GPLv3. The license can be found here.

Contributing

See our contribution guidelines.

项目信息

开发语言：Python

Star 数：159

技术要点

该项目属于安全软件方向的开源资源，代码结构清晰，适合安全研究人员学习参考。项目围绕Wordfence malware and vulnerability scanner command line utility.展开，提供了可运行的实现，对理解相关安全机制、工具原理与攻防技术具有较高的研究价值。

从技术实现角度看，此类项目的核心在于对底层原理的深入理解与工程化落地。开发者在研究过程中可以结合官方文档与社区讨论，梳理项目的初始化流程、核心模块职责与数据流转，逐步掌握其中的技术细节与设计思路。

使用与学习建议

1. 下载源码压缩包，解压到本地环境。

2. 根据项目类型准备对应的运行环境与依赖。

3. 按照 README 中的步骤完成配置与部署。

4. 在隔离的测试环境中运行验证，避免影响生产系统。

免责声明

本资源来源于开源社区，仅供安全研究、技术学习与合法授权范围内的攻防演练使用，请勿用于任何非法或侵害他人权益的用途。使用本项目产生的一切后果由使用者自行承担。