Fixing copilot issues in gobuster

README.md

@@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ gobuster dir -u https://example.com -w wordlist.txt -l
 
 # Filter by status codes
 gobuster dir -u https://example.com -w wordlist.txt -s 200,301,302
+
+# Apply replacement patterns to each word before requesting it
+gobuster dir -u https://example.com -w wordlist.txt -p patterns.txt
+
+# Generate follow-up values from successful matches
+gobuster dir -u https://example.com -w wordlist.txt --discover-pattern discover-patterns.txt
+
+# Resume a scan from a later offset in the wordlist
+gobuster dir -u https://example.com -w wordlist.txt --wordlist-offset 500
 ```
 
 #### 🔍 DNS Mode (`dns`)

cli/options.go

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ func ParseGlobalOptions(c *cli.Context) (libgobuster.Options, error) {
 	if opts.Wordlist == "-" && opts.WordlistOffset > 0 {
 		return opts, errors.New("wordlist-offset is not supported when reading from STDIN")
 	} else if opts.WordlistOffset < 0 {
-		return opts, errors.New("wordlist-offset must be bigger or equal to 0")
+		return opts, errors.New("wordlist-offset must be greater than or equal to 0")
 	}
 
 	opts.OutputFilename = c.String("output")

libgobuster/libgobuster.go

@@ -280,21 +280,23 @@ ListenForMore:
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			break ListenForMore
 		case successGuess := <-successChan:
-			// Add more guesses based on the results of previous attempts
-			if successGuess.discoverOnSuccess {
-				discoverWords := g.plugin.AdditionalSuccessWords(successGuess.word)
-				if len(discoverWords) > 0 {
-					g.Progress.IncrementTotalRequests(len(discoverWords))
-					feederGroup.Add(1)
-					go g.feeder(feederCtx, guessChan, discoverWords, false, &feederGroup)
-				}
-
-				patternDiscoverWords := g.processDiscoverPatterns(successGuess.word)
-				if len(patternDiscoverWords) > 0 {
-					g.Progress.IncrementTotalRequests(len(patternDiscoverWords))
-					feederGroup.Add(1)
-					go g.feeder(feederCtx, guessChan, patternDiscoverWords, false, &feederGroup)
-				}
+			// Call the success callback for every successful result so generated
+			// recursive targets are still processed even when the originating guess
+			// was created with discoverOnSuccess disabled.
+			discoverWords := g.plugin.AdditionalSuccessWords(successGuess.word)
+			patternDiscoverWords := g.processDiscoverPatterns(successGuess.word)
+			if !successGuess.discoverOnSuccess {
+				break
+			}
+			if len(discoverWords) > 0 {
+				g.Progress.IncrementTotalRequests(len(discoverWords))
+				feederGroup.Add(1)
+				go g.feeder(feederCtx, guessChan, discoverWords, false, &feederGroup)
+			}
+			if len(patternDiscoverWords) > 0 {
+				g.Progress.IncrementTotalRequests(len(patternDiscoverWords))
+				feederGroup.Add(1)
+				go g.feeder(feederCtx, guessChan, patternDiscoverWords, false, &feederGroup)
 			}
 		case <-time.After(200 * time.Millisecond):
 			// With requests issued only after the results are synchronously