Joomla Security Help
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Scan Joomla based websites to gain an understanding of the server, hosting and security of the site.
Enter the target Joomla URI and email address; you will receive your scan results delivered within 10mins.
About the Joomla Security Scan
This scan is not an exhaustive security audit of a Joomla installation or hosting server. It will check for a number of common security issues as well as perform web reputation analysis of sites that are being linked and sites that are hosted on the same IP address. It is a passive scan in that all the information gathered is from performing regular web requests against the specified site.
Checks include the following:
- Determine if Joomla installation is present
- Perform web reputation lookups for site (Google Safebrowsing, Norton Safeweb and MyWot services).
- Test for an “admin” user account
- Test for “directory indexing enabled on themes / modules”
- Test for robots.txt
- Test for readable .htacess
- List external sites linked from main page and web reputation of each
- List linked Javascript
- List any external iframes
- List Internal Site Links
- Perform Geolocation and Web Hosting information lookups
- Find web sites sharing the IP address and performs web reputation lookups.


