PrestaShop Security Audit & Hardening: Actionable Report

A skimmer sits in a template file for weeks, and the first sign of it is a customer complaining about a card charge. The Presta Shop Security Audit & Hardening Report is a manual review of store, server and logs, ending in a report ranked by real risk with the fixes delivered to your dashboard.

Findings are ranked before they are described, so the first thing you read is what to do first. Example document with invented data: your version names your store, your URLs and your modules.

Any merchant handling customer or payment data who wants to know their real exposure: before a busy season, before a PCI or insurer question, after inheriting a store, or simply because nobody with the right skills has ever looked. It suits agencies wanting an independent second opinion on a client store, and merchants who have had one incident and need to be sure the door is actually shut.

We work from your real store, not from a template. Core and module files are compared against known-good Presta Shop releases to surface injected or modified code; templates and JavaScript are read for unfamiliar external scripts, obfuscated payloads and Magecart-style patterns; the database is queried for suspicious admin sessions, employee accounts nobody recognises and stale or excessive privileges; and the configuration is reviewed for the quiet mistakes that widen the attack surface.

Nothing is installed on your server and nothing is altered during the review, so there is no scanning load competing with your customers.

Each finding is scored on three axes: severity (what an attacker could do, from card-data theft and remote code execution down to information disclosure), likelihood (how exposed that path really is in your configuration), and remediation effort (a setting change against a core upgrade). That produces a defensible order of work instead of a list, so the same-day items rise to the top and the low-value busywork is marked as such.

The full scoring model and a sample finding matrix are in the Methodology & Sample Report tab.

The report names concrete things, not categories: a payment-page template loading an unfamiliar external script (a classic Magecart tell); a back office reachable on the default /admin‑style path with no IP restriction and no 2FA; three employee accounts that have not logged in for a year and one with full Super Admin rights nobody recognises; a module two major versions behind a published security fix;

_PS_MODE_DEV_ left enabled in production leaking stack traces; or a database export sitting in a web‑reachable folder. Each is mapped to the exact fix and ordered by what it would cost an attacker versus what it costs you to close.

• A severity-scored risk report tailored to your store, version, host and module stack.
• Each finding mapped to a concrete remediation and placed in order by severity, likelihood and effort.
• Critical issues called out for same-day action, and a hardening roadmap your team or developer can work through directly.
• A backup-and-recovery assessment: whether you could genuinely restore a clean store after an incident.
• A walkthrough call or email thread to take your team through the priorities.

This is an assessment and a plan, deliberately not active cleanup. If we find evidence of an active compromise we flag it immediately and outline the urgent containment steps, but hands‑on cleanup and malware removal are scoped and quoted separately as priority work. Implementing the hardening is likewise a separate engagement, and many of the fixes you can apply yourself with the report in hand.

We run no intrusive penetration tests and no load attacks against your live store, and we change nothing on it during the review.

Which covers admin hardening, 2FA and login protection, but we will tell you plainly when no module is the answer and the right fix is a setting, a host change or simply deleting a…