Output

By default Wordfence CLI will print a banner followed by which paths it was supplied for scanning:

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        ▓▓▓▓▓   ▓▓▓▓▓          _       __               __  ____                   
  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓           ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓   | |     / /___  _________/ / / __/__  ____  ________ 
 ▓▓           ▓           ▓▓  | | /| / / __ \/ ___/ __  /_/ /_/ _ \/ __ \/ ___/ _ \
▓▓     ▓▓    ▓▓▓    ▓▓     ▓▓ | |/ |/ / /_/ / /  / /_/ /_  __/  __/ / / / /__/  __/
▓▓      ▓     ▓     ▓      ▓▓ |__/|__/\____/_/   \____/ /_/  \___/_/ /_/\___/\___/ 
▓▓    ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓    ▓▓                                       ____ _     ___ 
▓▓  ▓▓▓ ▓    ▓▓▓    ▓ ▓▓▓  ▓▓                                      / ___| |   |_ _|
▓▓▓▓▓   ▓    ▓▓▓    ▓   ▓▓▓▓▓                                     | |   | |    | | 
 ▓▓     ▓   ▓▓ ▓▓   ▓     ▓▓                                      | |___| |___ | | 
  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓                                        \____|_____|___|
                                                                                   
Scanning path: /var/www/
Scanning path: /home/user/

Files found that match a signature matches are printed in the output as well. There are additionally the --verbose and --debug options that can be used to get further information about what Wordfence CLI is doing under the hood.

Report Formats

The report is a separate output stream generated by Wordfence CLI that will contain a list of the files detected by one of our signatures. Use --output-columns to configure which columns are written to the report. Available columns: filename, signature_id, signature_name, signature_description, matched_text.

• CSV (Comma-Separated Values): Tabular formatted file containing file names, and signature details about what was matched.
• TSV (Tab-Separated Values): Tabular formatted file containing file names, and signature details about what was matched.
• NULL-byte delimited: A NULL-byte delimited list of file paths only (does not contain signature or match data).