---
name: "wifite"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wifite"
version: "2.7.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wifite"
---

# wifite(1)

Python script to automate wireless auditing using aircrack-ng tools

## NAME

wifite - Python script to automate wireless auditing using aircrack-ng tools

## SYNOPSIS

wifite \[SETTINGS\] \[FILTERS\]

## DESCRIPTION

Wifite is a tool to audit WEP or WPA encrypted wireless networks. It uses aircrack-ng, pyrit, reaver, tshark tools to perform the audit.

This tool is customizable to be automated with only a few arguments and can be trusted to run without supervision.

## COMMANDS

  \-check \<file\>	check capfile \<file\> for handshakes.\
   \-cracked		display previously-cracked access points

## GLOBAL

  \-all		attack all targets.              \[off\]\
   \-i \<iface\>  	wireless interface for capturing \[auto\]\
   \-mac		Changes MAC address of 'iface' to a random MAC. \[off\]\
   \-c \<channel\>	channel to scan for targets      \[auto\]\
   \-e \<essid\>	target a specific access point by ssid (name)  \[ask\]\
   \-b \<bssid\>	target a specific access point by bssid (mac)  \[auto\]\
   \-showb	display target BSSIDs after scan               \[off\]\
   \-pow \<db\>	attacks any targets with signal strenghth \> db \[0\]\
   \-q -quiet	do not print list of APs during scan           \[off\]

## WPA

  \-wpa		only target WPA networks (works with -wps -wep)   \[off\]\
   \-wpat \<sec\>	time to wait for WPA attack to complete (seconds) \[500\]\
   \-wpadt \<sec\>	time to wait between sending deauth packets (sec) \[10\]\
   \-strip	strip handshake using tshark or pyrit             \[off\]\
   \-crack \<dic\>	crack WPA handshakes using \<dic\> wordlist file    \[off\]\
   \-dict \<file\>	specify dictionary to use when cracking WPA \[phpbb.txt\]\
   \-aircrack	verify handshake using aircrack \[on\]\
   \-pyrit	verify handshake using pyrit    \[off\]\
   \-tshark	verify handshake using tshark   \[on\]

## WEP

  \-wep		only target WEP networks \[off\]\
   \-pps \<num\>	set the number of packets per second to inject \[600\]\
   \-wept \<sec\>	sec to wait for each attack, 0 implies endless \[600\]\
   \-chopchop	use chopchop attack      \[on\]\
   \-arpreplay	use arpreplay attack     \[on\]\
   \-fragment	use fragmentation attack \[on\]\
   \-caffelatte	use caffe-latte attack   \[on\]\
   \-p0841	use -p0841 attack        \[on\]\
   \-hirte	use hirte (cfrag) attack \[on\]\
   \-nofakeauth	stop attack if fake authentication fails    \[off\]\
   \-wepca \<n\>	start cracking when number of ivs surpass n \[10000\]\
   \-wepsave	save a copy of .cap files to this directory \[off\]

## WPS

  \-wps				only target WPS networks         \[off\]\
   \-wpst -wpstime \<sec\>	max wait for new retry before giving up (0: never)  \[660\]\
   \-wpsratio -wpsr \<per\>	min ratio of successful PIN attempts/total tries    \[0\]\
   \-wpsretry -wpsmaxr \<num\>	max number of retries for same PIN before giving up \[0\]

## OTHERS COMMANDS

  \-upgrade	Checks for new version\
   \-update	Checks for new version

## EXAMPLES

  ./wifite.py -wps -wep -c 6 -pps 600

## AUTHOR

Dave M (derv82@gmail.com)

This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry \<epsilon77@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).