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Effectively Pentest a Wordpress Site

When it comes to blackbox pentesting of a wordpress site ,first thing come's in your mind is WPScan[http://wpscan.org/].While pentesting through some site's ,i faced a similar issue i.e it shows that Wordpress SEO 1.14.15 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting Attack. Output is given below

| * Title: WordPress SEO 1.14.15 - index.php s Parameter Reflected XSS

| * Reference: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/123028/

| * Reference: http://osvdb.org/97885

But when following the link http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/123028/ ,it shows that attack can be executed with

Yoast Wordpress SEO XSS

But the main problem is when i tried to inject several xss vector's ,result's were not positive .I was not able to find any XSS in above url.There is proper output encoding ,a snapshot is shown belowwordpress search xss .So my question is "Do you have any method to bypass this and execute an xss " and "Do you any other tool or resources through which i can do better blackbox testing of wordpress"