Metasploit was created by H. D. Moore in 2003 as a portable network
tool using Perl. By 2007, the Metasploit Framework had been completely
rewritten in Ruby. 
On
October 21, 2009, the Metasploit Project announced that it had been
acquired by Rapid7, a security company that provides unified
vulnerability management solutions. Metasploit’s emerging position as
the de facto exploit development framework led to the release of
software vulnerability advisories often accompanied by a third party
Metasploit exploit module that highlights the exploitability, risk and
remediation of that particular bug. Metasploit 3.0 began to include
fuzzing tools, used to discover software vulnerabilities, rather than
just exploits for known bugs. This avenue can be seen with the
integration of the lorcon wireless (802.11) toolset into Metasploit 3.0
in November 2006. Metasploit 4.0 was released in August 2011. In this
guide we will look into the most important part of using Metasploit, how
to search exploits within it! Yeah, like it or not, if you can’t
search, then you got nada!
Use
Just in case you want to search something else, you
Pretty easy way to search exploits actually if you don’t want to learn metasploit search options. Do share if you think it helped.
On
October 21, 2009, the Metasploit Project announced that it had been
acquired by Rapid7, a security company that provides unified
vulnerability management solutions. Metasploit’s emerging position as
the de facto exploit development framework led to the release of
software vulnerability advisories often accompanied by a third party
Metasploit exploit module that highlights the exploitability, risk and
remediation of that particular bug. Metasploit 3.0 began to include
fuzzing tools, used to discover software vulnerabilities, rather than
just exploits for known bugs. This avenue can be seen with the
integration of the lorcon wireless (802.11) toolset into Metasploit 3.0
in November 2006. Metasploit 4.0 was released in August 2011. In this
guide we will look into the most important part of using Metasploit, how
to search exploits within it! Yeah, like it or not, if you can’t
search, then you got nada!searchsploit
How many of you usedsearchsploit in Kali Linux? It’s a nice tool that updates and downloads exploits often. I use it quite extensively along with MetaSploit.searchsploit to search specific exploits. You can use it like this:root@kali:~# searchsploit wordpress denial
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Description | Path
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WordPress <=4.0 Denial of Service Exploit | /php/webapps/35413.php
Wordpress < 4.0.1 - Denial of Service | /php/webapps/35414.txt
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root@kali:~#
Just in case you want to search something else, you
-h and it shows the help menu. Now help yourself to find more vulnerabilities.searchsploit Help Menu - Click to expand
Pretty easy way to search exploits actually if you don’t want to learn metasploit search options. Do share if you think it helped.