Wpscan: Wordpress URL supplied seems to be down -Wpscan on Kali Linux

[audayan]

Hi,
I am trying to run wpscan -u url on Kali Linux.But everytime I get an error message saying 'Wordpress URL supplied seems to be down' when the URL is up and running on the server .
Please help.
Thank you

[ethicalhack3r]

can you give us the output of curl http://www.yoursite.com, swap http://www.yoursite.com for the site you actually want to scan. Feel free to remove any identifying information from the output.

[CoyoteSec]

I'm having the same problem. On Kali, fully updated, using the builtin wpscan install. No matter what url I put in, I get the "Seems to be down." I can visit the site in the browser. Curl and wget download the site immediately just fine. I've tried the --connect-timeout 30 --connect-request 30 trick and that hasnt worked.

Current Versions:
# cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.6.0-kali1-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Debian 5.4.0-4) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.6.2-1kali1 (2016-06-17)

# ruby -v
ruby 2.3.1p112 (2016-04-26) [x86_64-linux-gnu]

# wpscan --version
Current version: 2.9.1
Last DB update: 2016-06-25

[FireFart]

@CoyoteSec try the --random-agent option

[CoyoteSec]

That worked!

I apologize. I had seen that suggestion before and had not tried it. You shouldn't have to give basic usage help on githib :-/

Thank you though!

[samzillah]

there is some that even after using a random agent they still dont work

[0x01g33k]

I have an issue with wpscan. I'm running kali 2020.1 with curl 7.67.0 . I tried various options but it keeps getting the same error.
Scan Aborted: The url supplied ' https://IP:PORT/phpmyadmin/' seems to be down (SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK)

[Reelix]

If you are receiving the seems to be down (SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK) message, you may want to try and include --disable-tls-checks which I have found often fixes the problem

[rainb3rry]

In similar situation (Scan Aborted: The url supplied 'https://teavana.com/' seems to be down (Timeout was reached)),
I just addedwww. to domain, and thats worked. Pay attention to this.