dxw advisories

In the course of delivering and hosting WordPress websites for the public sector, we undertake a significant quantity of assurance work, to ensure that the sites we build and the plugins they rely on are secure. We publish information about that work on this site.

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Please use develop/main branches.

Project management

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Ghost Inspector tests

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Analytics

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PHP version

This site builds on PHP 8.2 and deploys on PHP 8.3.

Getting started

Run the setup (first-time run only):

script/setup

Start the server:

script/server

You can also run the server in detached mode (i.e. without any output to your console):

script/server -d

Once the server has started, the following containers will be running:

• WordPress: http://localhost (username/password: admin/admin)
• MailCatcher: http://localhost:1080
• Beanstalk Console: http://localhost:2080
• MySQL: http://localhost:3306 (username/password: root/foobar)

For a /bin/sh console running on the WordPress container, run script/console For a MySQL console, run bin/wp db cli

Plugins & Themes

Use Whippet to manage plugins or external themes.

See the theme README for more on how to develop the theme.

API

The site exposes an JSON API of plugin inspections:

Usage

curl -L https://security.dxw.com/wp-json/v1/inspections/{{plugin slug}}

For example:

curl -L https://security.dxw.com/wp-json/v1/inspections/twitter-widget-pro

Example output

[
	{
		"name": "Twitter Widget Pro",
		"slug": "twitter-widget-pro",
		"versions": "2.5.4",
		"date": "2013-07-18T18:37:05+00:00",
		"url": "http://localhost:8000/plugins/twitter-widget-pro/",
		"result": "No issues found"
	}
]

API Unit Tests

The API code is packaged as a plugin.

To run the tests, run vendor/bin/kahlan specs from the plugin directory.

The first time you do this you'll need to composer install from the plugin directory.