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Laravel Security Audit & Hacked-Site Recovery

A fixed-price audit of your Laravel codebase, server, and dependencies, delivered in 5 business days — authentication, access control, injection risk, and every CVE in your composer.lock, all covered. You get a prioritized written report and a fixed-price quote to fix what we find, whether the site is already compromised or you just inherited a codebase you don't trust yet.

Who this is for

Four situations, one audit

You don't need to already know what's wrong. You need someone who's built enough Laravel platforms to know where the wrong things usually hide.

You inherited the codebase

An agency went dark, a freelancer moved on, or an in-house developer left. You're maintaining a Laravel app nobody on your current team wrote — and nobody's checked it for holes.

Pre-launch, before it's public

The build is nearly done and about to take real customer data and payments. A second set of eyes before launch costs a fraction of what a breach in week two would.

Something already happened

Defacement, a spam-sending inbox, unexpected redirects, a host flagging malware, or a client asking why their account shows someone else's order. You need it contained and explained.

Due diligence on an acquisition

You're buying a company or investing in one, and a Laravel platform is part of what you're getting. We audit it the way we'd audit our own client work, so you know what you're actually acquiring.

The Rescue Audit

What the report actually covers

No generic checklist scan. Six areas, each checked against how Laravel apps actually get broken into — plus a prioritized fix list and a fixed-price remediation quote for every finding.

Authentication

Session handling, password policy, 2FA/OTP gaps, login throttling, and password-reset flows checked for the usual ways attackers walk straight in.

Access control & IDOR

Every record-scoped endpoint checked for missing ownership checks — the single most common way one customer ends up looking at another customer's data.

Mass assignment

Eloquent $fillable/$guarded exposure and any model that accepts more fields from a request than it should.

Injection

Raw SQL, unescaped Blade output, and command injection risk in file uploads and any shell-out code.

Dependency & CVE scan

composer.lock checked against known CVEs, plus outdated Laravel, PHP, and package versions carrying disclosed vulnerabilities.

Configuration & secrets hygiene

APP_DEBUG in production, exposed .env or .git directories, weak APP_KEY, and credentials that leaked into commit history.

Fixed price, not an estimate

Laravel Rescue Audit — from $1,900

The Rescue Audit is a fixed-price, fast-turnaround diagnostic for Laravel sites that are slow, unstable, or compromised. We audit your codebase, server configuration, and dependencies, then hand you a prioritized report of what's wrong and a fixed-price quote to fix it — no open-ended hourly billing.

Timeline
5 business days
Payment
50% to start, balance on delivery

Invoiced in USD, paid by card, ACH, or wire. No open-ended hourly billing on the audit itself.

What's included

  • Full codebase + dependency audit
  • Security vulnerability scan (auth, IDOR, injection, exposed secrets)
  • Server + environment configuration review
  • Performance and query bottleneck review
  • Prioritized written report — critical to low-priority
  • Fixed-price remediation quote for every finding
Recovery path

Site already hacked?

If the site is compromised right now, the audit still happens — it's how we find the actual hole — but it runs alongside four steps that come first.

01

Contain

Compromised credentials revoked, the affected server or account isolated, active data loss or spam sending stopped — usually within hours of engagement, not days.

02

Clean

Malicious code, backdoors, and any planted admin accounts removed. Every file and dependency scanned so the same door doesn't let the same attacker back in next week.

03

Harden

The actual hole that let them in gets closed — that's the audit. Secrets rotated, the access-control gap fixed, vulnerable dependencies updated.

04

Monitor

Most clients move onto the $750/mo Priority care plan afterward — same-day response, quarterly re-audits, and someone actually watching so the next attempt gets caught before it does damage.

Why us

Built and audited by the same team

We build custom Laravel platforms every week — marketplaces, admin dashboards, multi-role commerce systems. That's also what we audit. We're not running a generic checklist against a stack we've never shipped; we know what a rushed Laravel build actually looks like from the inside, because we've built plenty and inherited more.

Representative engagement — composite, anonymized

A pattern of findings we see often, not one specific client's report.

Before

  • Admin panel reachable with default credentials still active
  • 14 outdated dependencies, 3 carrying disclosed CVEs
  • Order-history endpoint returned any customer's orders by editing the ID in the URL
  • APP_DEBUG on in production, exposing database credentials on error pages

After

  • Credentials rotated, login rate-limited and logged
  • Dependencies updated, CVE-flagged packages patched
  • Ownership check added to every record-scoped endpoint
  • Debug mode off, secrets rotated and removed from the repo

Need a new Laravel build instead of an audit? See our Laravel development services. Ongoing care after the fix lives on our maintenance & care plans page, and full pricing across every package is on the pricing page.

FAQ

Questions before you send us access

Code access, other stacks, emergency timelines, and what happens once the report lands in your inbox.

Do you need access to our code, and is an NDA required?
Yes to both. We need read-only Git or SFTP access (or a zipped copy of the codebase) and, if you want the query-level review included, a read-only database export or staging environment. A mutual NDA is signed before we touch anything — use ours or send your own, either works.
We're not on Laravel. Can you still help?
The audit method — authentication, access control, injection, dependency/CVE scanning, configuration hygiene — generalizes to any PHP application and most frameworks. If your stack is pure WordPress, we'll tell you upfront that a WordPress-specialist audit is probably the better fit rather than take an engagement we're not the sharpest tool for.
Our site is being actively exploited right now. How fast can you start?
Same business day for active incidents — defacement, spam injection, a ransom note, or signs of data exfiltration. Containment (revoking compromised credentials, isolating the server) starts before the full audit does, quoted as a rush add-on to the standard 5-business-day timeline.
What happens after we get the report?
Every finding ships with its own fixed-price remediation quote — there's no obligation to hire us for the fix. If you do, we schedule the work and re-test each item before closing it out. Most clients move onto the Priority care plan afterward for ongoing monitoring and quarterly re-audits.
What if the audit turns up more than expected? Does the price change?
$1,900 covers the full audit and the written report regardless of what we find. Only remediation is quoted separately, itemized finding by finding, so you decide what gets fixed now and what can wait.
Do we have to hire you to fix what you find?
No. The report and the prioritized fix list are yours either way, and your own developer can implement them. The one thing we can't guarantee is the outcome of a fix we didn't do and didn't re-test — that's the only reason we offer the remediation quote at all.

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Get the audit before the next incident, not after.

Laravel Rescue Audit is a fixed $1,900, delivered in 5 business days — with a prioritized fix list and a fixed-price quote for every finding.

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