warning

README.md

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ All funds that are donated to this project will be donated to charity. A full lo
 - the version command now also shows some build variables for more info
 - switched to another pkcs12 library to support p12s generated with openssl3 that use SHA256 HMAC
 - comments in wordlists (strings starting with #) are no longer ignored
+- warn in vhost mode if the --append-domain switch might have been forgotten
 - allow to exclude status code in vhost mode
 
 ## 3.6

cli/gobuster.go

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ func messageWorker(g *libgobuster.Gobuster, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
 				g.Logger.Debug(msg.Message)
 			case libgobuster.LevelError:
 				g.Logger.Error(msg.Message)
+			case libgobuster.LevelWarn:
+				g.Logger.Warn(msg.Message)
 			case libgobuster.LevelInfo:
 				g.Logger.Info(msg.Message)
 			default:

gobustervhost/gobustervhost.go

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ func (v *GobusterVhost) ProcessWord(ctx context.Context, word string, progress *
 	v.once.Do(func() {
 		if !strings.Contains(subdomain, ".") {
 			progress.MessageChan <- libgobuster.Message{
-				Level:   libgobuster.LevelInfo,
+				Level:   libgobuster.LevelWarn,
 				Message: fmt.Sprintf("the first subdomain to try does not contain a dot (%s). You might want to use the option to append the base domain otherwise the vhost will be tried as is", subdomain),
 			}
 		}

libgobuster/logger.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ type Logger struct {
 	log      *log.Logger
 	errorLog *log.Logger
 	debugLog *log.Logger
+	warnLog  *log.Logger
 	infoLog  *log.Logger
 	debug    bool
 }
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ func NewLogger(debug bool) Logger {
 		log:      log.New(os.Stdout, "", 0),
 		errorLog: log.New(os.Stderr, color.New(color.FgRed).Sprint("[ERROR] "), 0),
 		debugLog: log.New(os.Stderr, color.New(color.FgBlue).Sprint("[DEBUG] "), 0),
+		warnLog:  log.New(os.Stderr, color.New(color.FgYellow).Sprint("[WARN] "), 0),
 		infoLog:  log.New(os.Stderr, color.New(color.FgCyan).Sprint("[INFO] "), 0),
 		debug:    debug,
 	}
@@ -39,6 +41,14 @@ func (l Logger) Debugf(format string, v ...any) {
 	l.debugLog.Printf(format, v...)
 }
 
+func (l Logger) Warn(v ...any) {
+	l.warnLog.Print(v...)
+}
+
+func (l Logger) Warnf(format string, v ...any) {
+	l.warnLog.Printf(format, v...)
+}
+
 func (l Logger) Info(v ...any) {
 	l.infoLog.Print(v...)
 }

libgobuster/progress.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ type MessageLevel int
 const (
 	LevelDebug MessageLevel = iota
 	LevelInfo
+	LevelWarn
 	LevelError
 )