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WordPress Recon

Ecuador WordPress Infrastructure


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Scope: 60+ government domains across military, judicial, financial, infrastructure, education sectors Method: WordPress REST API enumeration, sensitive path probing, paginated data download

Rounds 4 and 5 expanded coverage from the initial financial/executive/security sectors to all remaining government ministries, universities, military domains, and financial institutions. Key outcomes:

  • 12 new WordPress sites fully enumerated and paginated
  • 3 new financial WP sites discovered (CELEC, CFN, BCE)
  • 7 new user accounts enumerated on CPCCS
  • All 21 .mil.ec domains confirmed unreachable (well-segmented military network)
  • 3 sites down (inclusion, obraspublicas, ambiente returning 503)
  • WAF detections: BIESS (F5 BIG-IP), BCE (F5), contraloria (IIS soft-404), cnelep (soft-404)
  • Total WP data: ~75,000 posts, ~190,000 media items, ~9,500 comments across 30+ sites

ROUND 4 FINDINGS (48 Domains Probed)

New WordPress Sites — Full Data Downloaded

Domain Posts Media Comments Pages Categories Tags
agricultura.gob.ec 14,209 15,221 19 51 226
inclusion.gob.ec 22,525 15,313 4,549 31 52 2,054
salud.gob.ec 7,707 32,114 18 57 971
cpccs.gob.ec 7,495 32,485 866 26 1,190
deporte.gob.ec 7,835 10,007 22 45 19 445
telecomunicaciones.gob.ec 2,836 15,143 9 26 34 13
trabajo.gob.ec 838 5,120 9 10
finanzas.gob.ec 792 1,872 25 23 30
espoch.edu.ec 10 9,378 333 8 13
uta.edu.ec 281 1,302 101 51 28
ambiente.gob.ec 1,340 13,363 140 4 4
obraspublicas.gob.ec 6,790 8,621 31 68 136

CPCCS User Enumeration (NEW — 7 Accounts)

Citizens' Participation and Social Control Council:

ID Name Slug
1 infraestructura infraestructura
3 Belen Vasconez belen-vasconez
6 Cesar Bermeo cesar-bermeo
7 Daysi Tufino daysi-tufino
8 Mauro Pilatasig mauro-pilatasig
9 Rebeca Llasag rebeca-llasag
10 Santiago Bolanos santiago-bolanos

Military Sector Probe (21 .mil.ec Domains)

ALL UNREACHABLE from external network: armada.mil.ec, ejercito.mil.ec, fuerzaaerea.mil.ec, fuerzanaval.mil.ec, fuerzaterrestre.mil.ec, comando.mil.ec, comaco.mil.ec, sstg.mil.ec, marina.mil.ec, espe.edu.ec, esmil.edu.ec, essuna.edu.ec, midena.gob.ec, isspol.gob.ec, policiaecuador.gob.ec, ministeriointerior.gob.ec, inteligencia.gob.ec, csirt.gob.ec, snai.gob.ec, defensa.ec

Assessment: Military infrastructure is well-segmented from public internet. Only previously-known sites (fae.mil.ec, issfa.mil.ec, ccffaa.mil.ec) remain accessible.

Sensitive Domain Probe (19 Domains)

Domain Status Notes
igm.gob.ec Alive Apache/2.4.37 Rocky Linux, no WP, locked down
cnt.gob.ec Alive Nuxt.js app, no WP
cnelep.gob.ec Alive All paths return same 354KB page (soft 404 / WAF)
supercias.gob.ec HTTP 403 Alive but fully blocked
All others Unreachable Without www prefix

ROUND 5 FINDINGS (www-prefix Discovery)

Several domains unreachable without www prefix became accessible:

New WordPress Sites

Domain Posts Media Pages Categories Tags Notes
www.celec.gob.ec 1,694 3,185 36 29 nginx/1.14.1, users blocked (401), .git blocked (403)
www.cfn.fin.ec 304 4,207 30 11 46 Apache, LiteSpeed Cache, Application Passwords auth enabled
www.bce.fin.ec 498 1,252 172 4 10 F5 WAF, [email protected] security contact

Infrastructure Discovery

Domain Server Stack WAF Notes
www.contraloria.gob.ec IIS/10.0 ASP.NET, X-Powered-By: CGE Soft 404 (32KB for all paths) Comptroller General
www.biess.fin.ec IIS/7.5 ASP.NET 4.0.30319 F5 BIG-IP (cookie TS01f73070) Social Security Bank, ancient IIS
www.funcionjudicial.gob.ec Apache WordPress confirmed Full lockdown (401 on ALL WP API endpoints) Judicial Branch

SERVER FINGERPRINTING SUMMARY

Target Server PHP/Framework WAF/CDN
agricultura.gob.ec WordPress + Wordfence Google Site Kit
celec.gob.ec nginx/1.14.1 WordPress
cfn.fin.ec Apache WordPress + LiteSpeed Cache
bce.fin.ec Reverse proxy WordPress + Elementor F5 BIG-IP
contraloria.gob.ec IIS/10.0 ASP.NET CGE
biess.fin.ec IIS/7.5 ASP.NET 4.0 F5 BIG-IP
funcionjudicial.gob.ec Apache WordPress Full API lockdown
igm.gob.ec Apache/2.4.37 Rocky Linux, OpenSSL/1.1.1k
cnt.gob.ec Nuxt.js
espoch.edu.ec WordPress + LiteSpeed Cache
uta.edu.ec Apache/2.4.62 PHP/8.0.30, Rocky Linux

WORDPRESS PLUGIN DEPLOYMENT MAP

Plugin Sites Deployed
Wordfence BCE, CELEC, Agricultura, Deporte, ESPOCH, Finanzas, Inclusion, Obras Publicas, Salud, Telecom, Trabajo, UTA
Elementor BCE, CELEC, CPCCS, ESPOCH, Trabajo, UTA
Google Site Kit Agricultura, Deporte, Inclusion, Obras Publicas, Salud, Telecom, Trabajo
Redirection BCE, CPCCS, UTA
Application Passwords CFN, CPCCS
LiteSpeed Cache CFN, ESPOCH
Forminator Obras Publicas
WP Statistics ESPOCH, UTA

DATA DOWNLOAD STATUS

Fully Paginated (all pages downloaded)

Site Files Size
agricultura-gob-ec 301 141 MB
deporte-gob-ec 188 73 MB
telecomunicaciones-gob-ec 184 54 MB
educacion-gob-ec 397 133 MB
trabajo-gob-ec 63 30 MB
finanzas-gob-ec 29 11 MB
espoch-edu-ec 99 68 MB
uta-edu-ec 21 49 MB
celec-gob-ec 51 20 MB
cfn-fin-ec 50 15 MB
bce-fin-ec 22 17 MB
registrocivil-gob-ec 52 23 MB
www-salud-gob-ec 269
www-cpccs-gob-ec 304

Servers Down (503 — retry later)

Site Known Data Status
inclusion.gob.ec 22,525 posts, 15,313 media First page + comments downloaded
obraspublicas.gob.ec 6,790 posts, 8,621 media First page only
ambiente.gob.ec 1,340 posts, 13,363 media First page only

NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES DISCOVERED

55 new government emails from Round 5 sites:

  • CELEC (9): jhery.saavedra, juan.jara, juan.mogrovejo, pedro.espinoza + functional mailboxes
  • CFN (19): cramirez, dchasi, jfrias, mapolo, mizquierdo, mmoncayo, mparedes + [email protected]
  • BCE (27): atencionciudadana, biblioteca, comercializaciondeoro, dcv, seguridad + named staff