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Website vulnerability scanning

Scan the code and infrastructure that support your website for security vulnerabilities. 

Website security matters

Vulnerability management is a critical requirement for anyone running web applications or interactive and static websites. These public-facing assets are common attack vectors for malicious actors seeking unauthorized access to systems and data, so it’s important to make sure they’re secured properly with website security checks. You can scan website code and dependencies with Snyk in three steps:

1. Create an account

Create a Snyk account and connect your project repsitories.

2. Import a project

Import a project (or run a scan locally) to scan your website code and identify issues.

3. Review results

Review the scan results and make fixes to your website code based on the details of the issues found.

Snyk website security scanning

Snyk has multiple features to help you secure your website, from checking your proprietary code to scanning open source dependencies to preventing misconfigurations in your IaC.

Protect your proprietary code

Find and fix website security issues in your own source code, with support for JS, Python, PHP, and other popular web ecosystems.

Scan open source dependencies

Snyk Open Source can scan your projects for vulnerable dependencies.

Automate vulnerability fixes

Snyk automates vulnerability fixes with a one-click pull request populated with the required upgrades and patches.

Rely on trustworthy security intel

Snyk Vulnerability Database delivers advanced security intelligence to help you fix open source and container vulnerabilities.

Free website security resources

Web app security risks & best practices

Web applications introduce multiple attack gateways for malicious actors. Learn about best practices for securing your web app. 

How does vulnerability scanning work?

Understand how vulnerabilities are detected and fixed throughout the software development lifecycle.

Developer security training from Snyk

Snyk provides free, curated interactive lessons to help developers navigate and expand their own security education.

FAQ

Why is vulnerability scanning important?

Vulnerability scanning helps to minimize risk and control vulnerabilities from the very beginning of website development.

Find and automatically fix vulnerabilities in your code and open source dependencies with Snyk.

How does website vulnerability scanning work?

Web vulnerability scanners scan application/website code to find vulnerabilities that compromise the application/website itself or its back-end services.

These site scanners work against a known list of common exploits that use various injection and evasion techniques to “hijack” web applications and websites in order to exfiltrate data, to trick users or systems into providing sensitive information, or to disrupt application performance. Some of the better known exploits are SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, and malicious code.