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Find outdated versions of WordPress and Joomla on your server

June 9, 2015
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Find outdated versions of WordPress and Joomla

The outdated versions of WordPress and Joomla cause many security issues on the server. You can see there is an increase in the number of WordPress and Joomla websites being hacked. In order to prevent this issue at some extent, it is important to keep the WordPress and Joomla updated.

If you have a server and many sites running on it, it is difficult that to find which accounts are using the outdated WordPress/Joomla. The below scripts helps you to find outdated versions of WordPress and Joomla on your server.

cPanel Server:

Find outdated versions of WordPress:

 
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;

Find outdated versions of Joomla:

 
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f \( -iwholename '*/libraries/joomla/version.php' -o -iwholename '*/libraries/cms/version.php' -o -iwholename '*/libraries/cms/version/version.php' \) -print -exec perl -e 'while (<>) { $release = $1 if m/ \$RELEASE\s+= .([\d.]+).;/; $dev = $1 if m/ \$DEV_LEVEL\s+= .(\d+).;/; } print qq($release.$dev\n);' {} \; && echo "-"

Find Outdated Drupal Versions:

 
find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -iwholename "*/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;

Plesk Server:

Find outdated versions of WordPress:

 
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;

Find outdated versions of Joomla:

 
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f \( -iwholename '*/libraries/joomla/version.php' -o -iwholename '*/libraries/cms/version.php' -o -iwholename '*/libraries/cms/version/version.php' \) -print -exec perl -e 'while (<>) { $release = $1 if m/ \$RELEASE\s+= .([\d.]+).;/; $dev = $1 if m/ \$DEV_LEVEL\s+= .(\d+).;/; } print qq($release.$dev\n);' {} \; && echo "-"

Find Outdated Drupal Versions:

 
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs -type f -iwholename "*/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;

That’s it!

Also Read: Fix – WordPress XMLRPC Vulnerability

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