MoeSec Website Vulnerability Scanner: Your First Line of Digital Defense
What is the MoeSec Vulnerability Scanner?
The MoeSec Website Vulnerability Scanner is an advanced, automated system that meticulously crawls and analyzes your website for thousands of known security vulnerabilities. It acts as your automated security watchdog, continuously sniffing out weaknesses before malicious actors can exploit them.
It combines the power of signature-based detection (checking for known attack patterns and CVEs) with heuristic analysis to identify misconfigurations and common security flaws outlined in the OWASP Top 10.
A Premium Service for Our Website Security Platform Customers
To ensure dedicated resources and priority analysis, our Automated Vulnerability Scanner is FREE & available exclusively to our MoeSec Website Security Platform subscribers.
What Does It Check For?
Our scanner leaves no stone unturned. It performs over 15,000 checks, including:
CMS & Software Detection: Identifies WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop, OpenCart, etc., and flags outdated, vulnerable versions.
OWASP Top 10: Comprehensive tests for:
SQL Injection (SQLi)
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Remote Code Execution (RCE)
Local & Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI)
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Security Misconfigurations
Sensitive Data Exposure
Known CVEs: Checks for thousands of previously discovered vulnerabilities, including critical threats.
PCI DSS Compliance: Scans for issues that would prevent your site from meeting payment card industry security standards.
Server Configuration: Analyzes for insecure headers, directory listing, and broken authentication.
- Much More!
Accuracy & Reliability
Our website vulnerability scanner is engineered for high accuracy. It employs a multi-step verification process to reduce noise. However, as with any automated scanning, some results may be False Positives (flagging a non-issue) or, more rarely, False Negatives (missing a flaw). This is why we always recommend a manual pentest and full website security audit for mission-critical validation.
What to Expect: Duration, Traffic, and Impact
How Long Does It Take? A typical scan for a medium-sized website takes around 15-30 minutes or less as it depends on many factors. Larger, more complex sites may take longer.
Will It Affect My Website? The scanner is designed to be non-intrusive and safe. It performs read-only checks and avoids any destructive actions. You should not experience any downtime.
How Much Traffic Does It Generate? The scanner is efficient but thorough. Expect hundreds or thousands requests per scan, depending on the site’s size and complexity. This is equivalent to a moderate spike in regular traffic.
What You Get: Your Detailed Security Report
Upon completion, you will receive a comprehensive professional report delivered to your Website Security portal, available in a PDF Report, A beautifully formatted, document perfect for sharing with management or stakeholders.
Each report includes:
An executive summary with a Security Score out of 100.
Detailed breakdowns of every found vulnerability.
Clear descriptions of the risk and its potential impact.
actionable remediation steps to fix each issue.
References to CVE numbers for known vulnerabilities.
How to Request & Prepare for Your Scan
Access your Website Security Portal: or open a ticket through your client portal requesting a vulnerability scan or any help activating or configuring it.
Select Covered Website: Click on the covered website that you want to run a scan for it, Go to the Vulnerability Scan section, Activate it first by clicking the activate button then you can run on-demand scans at anytime. Only one free vulnerability scan is allowed per month per covered website/domain.
Prepare Your Website (Crucial Step): To ensure a smooth scan, please whitelist our scanning IP addresses in your firewall, WAF (like Cloudflare), or IPS. Contact our support team for the current list of IPs. Failure to do so may result in blocked requests and an incomplete scan report.
Disclaimer & The Big Picture
The MoeSec Website Vulnerability Scanner is an incredibly powerful tool for testing against possible vulnerabilities and security weaknesses. However, it is not a substitute for a full manual penetration test. Automated tools cannot replicate the creative, logical, and business-context-aware analysis of a human security expert. For a true guarantee of security, especially for e-commerce sites or applications handling sensitive data, we strongly recommend following up with our MoeSec PenTest Service. Our certified ethical hackers will manually exploit vulnerabilities, chain attacks together, and provide a deeper level of assurance that an automated tool simply cannot.
