How to Find Vulnerable WordPress Sites Using Common Crawl

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Recently, due to the rapid growth of WordPress websites, crawling the existing database of tens of millions of WordPress websites has become a challenge. And why bother when Big Data is available?

Everyone’s goals can be different, with good intentions, malicious ones, or even not-so-malicious ones. 😃 I’m an independent developer who loves to dig into different things and look for unconventional solutions to problems.

Common Crawl is a non-profit organization that collects website data into a massive archive of web pages, images, and metadata. The archive size for a single crawl is approximately 50 TB.

So, on one side of the scale, we have tens of millions of websites, and on the other, ~50 Tb of data.

You might say one is no better than the other—so what’s the benefit?
The Common Crawl archive is stored in Amazon S3 in theus-east-1region, and I’ll jump ahead and say...

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