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Advanced Security Scanner for Discourse Forums

A comprehensive security assessment tool specifically designed for Discourse forum platforms, featuring 25+ specialized security modules with 100% reliability.

Features • Installation • Quick Start • Documentation • Contributing


🎯 Features

Core Capabilities

  • 25 Security Modules - 100% success rate, optimized for speed
  • Comprehensive Scanning - CVE detection, plugin analysis, API testing
  • Performance Optimized - All modules complete within 60 seconds
  • Detailed Reporting - HTML, JSON, and CLI output formats
  • Production Ready - Battle-tested and reliable

Security Modules

🔍 Core Analysis

  • Info Scanner - Forum information gathering
  • Endpoint Discovery - API endpoint enumeration
  • User Enumeration - User account analysis
  • CVE Detection - Known vulnerability scanning
  • Plugin Analysis - Plugin detection and security testing

🛡️ Security Testing

  • Authentication Testing - Login security analysis
  • API Security - REST API vulnerability testing
  • Configuration Audit - Security misconfiguration detection
  • Crypto Analysis - Encryption and hashing review
  • Network Security - Network-level security checks

🎨 Discourse-Specific

  • Badge Security - Badge system vulnerability testing
  • Category Permissions - Access control analysis
  • Trust Level Testing - Trust level bypass detection
  • Rate Limiting - API rate limit testing
  • Session Security - Session management review
  • Admin Panel - Administrative interface testing
  • Webhook Security - Webhook configuration analysis
  • Email Security - Email-related vulnerability testing
  • Search Security - Search functionality testing
  • Cache Security - Cache misconfiguration detection

🚀 Advanced Features

  • WAF Bypass - Web Application Firewall evasion testing
  • Compliance Check - Security standard compliance verification

📦 Installation

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.8 or higher
  • pip (Python package manager)

Install via pip (Recommended)

# Install from PyPI
pip install discoursemap

# Or install with all optional dependencies
pip install discoursemap[all]

Install from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ibrahmsql/discoursemap.git
cd discoursemap

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install in development mode
pip install -e .

Install using pipx (Isolated Environment)

# Install pipx if not already installed
pip install pipx

# Install discoursemap
pipx install discoursemap

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Scan

# Scan a Discourse forum
discoursemap -u https://meta.discourse.org

# Scan specific modules
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -m cve,plugin,api

# Enable verbose output
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -v

# Synchronous scan (wait for completion)
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com --sync

Advanced Usage

# Full security audit with all modules
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -m all --sync -v

# Output to HTML report
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -o report.html

# JSON output for automation
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -o results.json

# Custom timeout and threads
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com --timeout 120 --threads 10

Available Modules

Module Description Speed
info Forum information gathering ⚡ Fast
cve CVE vulnerability detection ⚡ Fast
plugin Plugin security analysis ⚡ Fast
api API security testing ⚡ Fast
auth Authentication testing ⚡ Fast
badge Badge system security 🔄 Medium
category Category permissions 🔄 Medium
rate_limit Rate limiting tests 🔄 Medium
waf_bypass WAF evasion testing 🔄 Medium
all Run all 25 modules 🕐 Comprehensive

See full list: Run discoursemap --list-modules


📖 Documentation

Quick References

Configuration

Create a configuration file ~/.discoursemap/config.yaml:

# Global settings
timeout: 60
threads: 5
verbose: false

# Output settings
output_format: html
save_results: true

# Module settings
default_modules:
  - info
  - cve
  - plugin
  - api
  - auth

# Reporting
report:
  include_severity: true
  show_recommendations: true

🎯 Use Cases

Security Auditing

# Full security audit
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -m all --sync

CI/CD Integration

# Automated security checks
discoursemap -u $FORUM_URL -m cve,plugin -o results.json
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Security issues found!"
  exit 1
fi

Bug Bounty Hunting

# Quick vulnerability scan
discoursemap -u https://target.com -m cve,plugin,waf_bypass -v

Compliance Testing

# Compliance check
discoursemap -u https://forum.example.com -m compliance,config,auth

📊 Performance

DiscourseMap has been optimized for speed and reliability:

Metric Value
Total Modules 25
Success Rate 100%
Avg. Scan Time < 60s (all modules)
Memory Usage < 100MB
Concurrent Requests Configurable (default: 5)

Module Performance (60s timeout)

  • ✅ 22 modules: < 10s
  • ✅ 3 modules: 40-60s (comprehensive tests)
  • ✅ 0 failures, 0 timeouts

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's how you can help:

Reporting Issues

Pull Requests

  1. Fork the repository
  2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
  4. Push to branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
  5. Open a Pull Request

Development Setup

# Clone and setup dev environment
git clone https://github.com/ibrahmsql/discoursemap.git
cd discoursemap
pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

# Run tests
pytest

# Run linter
flake8 discoursemap/

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.


🙏 Acknowledgments

  • Discourse team for creating an amazing platform
  • Security researchers and contributors
  • Open source community

📧 Contact


⭐ Star this repo if you find it useful!

Made with ❤️ by @ibrahmsql

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