Website Security Testing & Audit Services

These two get used interchangeably and they should not be. A vulnerability assessment and audit is broad and efficient: we identify weaknesses across the site and its configuration and confirm the real ones by hand, which suits a brochure site, a smaller CMS build or a first look before you invest further. A penetration test goes deeper on a smaller target, actively exploiting what it finds and chaining issues together, which is what you want for a site that takes payments or holds accounts. On the scoping call we will tell you honestly which one your site needs.

We map the site: its pages, parameters, technologies, subdomains and anything exposed that should not be. Content-discovery tools such as ffuf routinely turn up an old admin login, a database backup or a staging copy of the site that the owner had forgotten existed. Those forgotten corners are often the softest way in.

With the map complete we work through each class of weakness against each function. Every candidate issue is verified by hand so that what reaches your report is real and reproducible, not a scanner’s guess. Where an issue is exploitable, we demonstrate the impact safely rather than just asserting it.

You receive a plain-language summary of your risk and a technical report with each finding scored by CVSS, explained in terms of what an attacker could do, and paired with a specific fix. Once your team has made the changes, the retest is included so you can confirm the site is genuinely fixed.

The most frequent root cause by a wide margin. A content-management platform two versions behind, a contact-form plugin with a public advisory, a page builder nobody has updated since launch. Attackers scan the whole internet for exactly these, so an unpatched component is rarely safe for long.

Search boxes, comment fields and URL parameters that reflect input straight back into the page let an attacker run script in your visitors’ browsers. It is the classic website flaw and it still shows up constantly, often in a widget bolted on years after the site was built.

Database dumps, configuration files with credentials in them, git directories and directory listings that reveal the whole structure of the site. These leak quietly and cost nothing for an attacker to find.

Default or reused passwords, admin logins with no rate limiting, and second-factor prompts that can be walked around by requesting the next page directly. Any of these can hand over the keys to the whole site.

Where a site has members or paid areas, we test whether one account can reach another’s data or an area it should not. Changing an identifier in a URL, replaying a request as a lower-privilege user, or loading a members-only page without a session are quick checks that regularly succeed on sites that were never tested for them.

PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 11.4 expects regular application-layer testing, and our reports are built to answer it. For ISO 27001 the results support control A.8.29 and your risk-treatment records; for SOC 2 they feed the security criteria your auditor reviews. An attestation letter is available on request.

Where your website collects personal data through forms, accounts or analytics, testing is part of demonstrating the technical measures GDPR expects of you. A clean, dated report is useful evidence if a regulator, a customer or your own board ever asks you to show your work, and it costs far less than assembling that evidence under pressure after an incident.

A new theme, a migrated CMS or a switch of hosting quietly changes what is exposed. Testing after the rebuild but before you announce it catches the fresh mistakes while they are cheap to fix and before any visitor can trip over them.

Websites are not static even when they look it. Plugins update, content editors add embeds, and third-party scripts change under you. An annual test is the sensible floor; sites that change often or take payments are better tested more frequently.

Taking over a website built by someone else means inheriting decisions you cannot see. A test is the fastest way to learn what you actually took on before it becomes your problem in public.