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Mastering Metasploit

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automated exploitation in Metasploit


Recent versions of the Metasploit framework do not support the famous db_autopwn plugin. The db_autopwn plugin is used to attack the hosts and vulnerabilities stored in the database during a penetration test automatically, based on the match made with the existing Metasploit modules.

However, due to its removal from the recent versions, we are not able to use this feature. To be honest, db_autopwn proves to be very handy while conducting a large penetration test and carrying out a quick test of various services with numerous exploits, one-by-one, automatically. So, how we can re-enable this feature in the latest version of the Metasploit framework? The answer to this question is by putting the db_autopwn script in the plugins directory.

Re-enabling db_autopwn

Let's see how we can re-enable this great plugin in Metasploit and carry out a quick exploitation using it: