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[Suggestion] Malware scan results for PHP based shares

Conor

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It's all very well posting a VT scan for a WP theme or plugin or any other sort of PHP file we share, but Virustotal won't pick up any malware in PHP scripts. Your PC won't get hacked, but your website might.

My suggestion: mandatory scan results from some sort of malware scanner, like this one: http://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/ instead of, or including a VT scan.

It's just the first scanner I could find in Google, perhaps someone else has a more global solution that doesn't require WP.
 
I am not sure there is an online scanner like VT.

Normally most of the scanners are for scanning local files or the online resources require you to provide ownership of the site.
The alternative is to set up local test servers on which you can host the scanners and test the scripts.

The following resources might help:
http://urlquery.net/
http://projects.webappsec.org/w/page/13246988/Web-Application-Security-Scanner-List
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:Vulnerability_Scanning_Tools
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Security_Scanner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_security_scanner
 
Theme Audactity Checker, if you ever download a Wordpress theme from somewhere. Will catch the majority of PHP exploits and hidden scripts. You shouldn't really be messing with PHP scripts that aren't from a safe source unless you know what you are doing. Though I agree there should be some solution or guide for forum users.
 
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