Descripción General
VulnHawk — Web Vulnerability Scanner & Security Monitoring Platform
A comprehensive web vulnerability scanning and security monitoring platform featuring 83 security checks across 10 OWASP Top 10:2025 categories, real-time scan visualization, vulnerability management, compliance mapping, automated monitoring, and a professional administration dashboard.
VulnHawk crawls target websites, identifies potential security vulnerabilities, and delivers actionable findings with severity ratings, technical evidence, and remediation guidance. The platform supports Free and Pro subscription tiers, scheduled scanning, GitHub repository audits, structured web scraping, continuous SSL and uptime monitoring, and seven report export formats.
Features
- Web Vulnerability Scanning: 83 security checks covering 10 OWASP Top 10:2025 categories, including injection, broken access control, security misconfiguration, cryptographic failures, authentication weaknesses, and supply chain risks.
- GitHub Repository Auditing: Public repository security audits for Free and Pro users, featuring vulnerability categorization, interactive charts, prioritized remediation recommendations, report exports, and administrative monitoring.
- Real-Time Scan Visualization: Live scan progress with matrix-style animations and an interactive WebGL topology globe displaying scanned pages and their highest-severity findings.
- Vulnerability Management: Detailed security findings with affected URLs, parameters, test payloads, CWE identifiers, severity classifications, and remediation guidance.
- Scan Comparison & Diffing: Automatically classify findings as new, existing, or resolved. Free users can compare against the previous scan, while Pro users can compare up to 10 scans back.
- Compliance Framework Mapping: Map detected vulnerabilities to OWASP ASVS 4.0.3 and PCI DSS 4.0 controls, with downloadable compliance reports. Available to Pro users.
- Scheduled Security Scans: Configure automated recurring vulnerability scans using interval-based scheduling. Available to Pro users.
- Structured Web Scraping: Extract website text, JSON-LD, OpenGraph metadata, HTML tables, and content using custom CSS selectors. Supports multiple export formats. Available to Pro users.
- SSL Certificate Monitoring: Automatically check certificate expiration and generate alerts at 30, 14, 7, and 1 days before expiry.
- Website Uptime Monitoring: Monitor website availability every 5 minutes for Pro users or 15 minutes for Free users, with alerts after two consecutive failures.
- Unlimited Rescans: Rescan previously scanned targets without consuming the monthly scan quota, subject to a 24-hour cooldown.
- Automated Security Notifications: Receive alerts for newly discovered vulnerabilities, completed scans, failed scans, SSL expiration, and website outages.
- Browser Push Notifications: Optional Web Push notifications for security monitoring events, with email fallback. Available to Pro users.
- Email Notifications: Account security alerts, password changes, login activity, subscription updates, payment confirmations, scan failures, and monitoring notifications.
- Multi-Factor Authentication: Optional authenticator-based MFA for all account roles, including recovery codes and post-login setup prompts.
- OAuth Authentication: Google and GitHub sign-in alongside standard account authentication.
- Subscription Management: Free and Pro subscription tiers with server-side feature enforcement, usage quotas, and billing integration.
- Custom PDF Branding: Pro users can configure company names and upload logos for branded security and compliance reports.
- Professional Administration Dashboard: User management, scan monitoring, analytics, subscription oversight, and operational controls.
- Worker Monitoring: Superadmin dashboard displaying worker health, memory consumption, queue depth, failure history, worker restart controls, and stuck-scan recovery.
- Failure Accounting: Conditional handling of scan quota charges for network-level failures, subject to refund limits.
- Progressive Web App (PWA): Installable application for iOS, Android, and desktop browsers, featuring a cached application shell and responsive mobile experience.
- Security & Access Control: Feature enforcement across the UI, JavaScript, and backend API to prevent unauthorized access to Pro functionality.
Security Coverage
VulnHawk performs 83 security checks across the following vulnerability categories:
| Category | Security Coverage |
|---|---|
| Reconnaissance | Website discovery, exposed resources, and information gathering |
| Injection | XSS, SQL injection, SSTI, CRLF, XXE, LDAP injection |
| Broken Access Control | IDOR, open redirects, path traversal, SSRF |
| Security Misconfiguration | Insecure configurations, exposed services, and security weaknesses |
| Cryptographic Failures | Weak cryptographic configurations and transport security issues |
| Authentication | Authentication weaknesses and session security |
| Data Exposure | Sensitive information disclosure and exposed application data |
| Client-Side Security | Browser-side vulnerabilities and insecure client configurations |
| Supply Chain Security | Dependency and third-party component security risks |
| Application Logic | Business logic and application workflow security weaknesses |
Reporting & Export
VulnHawk supports seven security report export formats:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Professional vulnerability assessment reports | |
| XLSX | Excel-compatible vulnerability data and analysis |
| HTML | Browser-readable security reports |
| Markdown | Developer-friendly reports for documentation and repositories |
| CSV | Structured findings for spreadsheets and external tools |
| JSON | Machine-readable findings for automation and integrations |
| SARIF | Standardized static analysis results for security tooling |
Additional Pro reporting capabilities include:
- Branded PDF reports with company names and supported raster logos.
- Compliance reports mapped to OWASP ASVS 4.0.3 and PCI DSS 4.0.
- Historical scan comparisons and vulnerability change tracking.
- Structured web scraping exports in CSV, JSON, Excel, HTML, Markdown, and sitemap formats.
Free vs. Pro Features
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Web Vulnerability Scanning | Yes | Yes |
| 83 Security Checks | Yes | Yes |
| Public GitHub Repository Audits | Yes | Yes |
| Real-Time Scan Visualization | Yes | Yes |
| Vulnerability Findings & Remediation | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited Rescans (24-Hour Cooldown) | Yes | Yes |
| Scan Comparison | Previous scan | Up to 10 scans back |
| Scheduled Recurring Scans | No | Yes |
| Structured Web Scraping | No | Yes |
| Compliance Framework Mapping | No | Yes |
| Custom PDF Branding | No | Yes |
| SSL & Uptime Monitoring | 1 target | Up to 25 targets |
| Uptime Check Interval | 15 minutes | 5 minutes |
| New-Findings Email Alerts | No | Yes |
| Browser Push Notifications | No | Yes |
| Report Exports | Tier-limited | Expanded access |
| Multi-Factor Authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Google & GitHub Sign-In | Yes | Yes |
| Installable PWA | Yes | Yes |
Platform Limitations
VulnHawk is designed for practical security assessments and continuous monitoring, with the following limitations:
- No JavaScript-Rendered Crawling: Single-page applications and dynamically rendered routes may not be fully discovered.
- No Authenticated Scanning: Scanning authenticated application areas is not currently supported.
- No Automated Exploitation: VulnHawk detects potential vulnerabilities but does not automatically exploit them.
- No Content Change Detection: Monitoring currently focuses on SSL certificates and website uptime. Content hashing is planned for a future release.
- Compliance Mapping Is Not Certification: Framework mapping identifies controls associated with discovered vulnerabilities but does not establish regulatory compliance.
- Focused Security Coverage: The 83 security checks are optimized for common web technologies, including WordPress, Django, Rails, Next.js, and traditional server-rendered applications.
Platform Overview
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Application | VulnHawk |
| Website | vulnhawk.app |
| Application Type | Web Security Scanner & Monitoring Platform |
| Security Checks | 83 |
| Security Categories | 10 OWASP Top 10:2025 categories |
| GitHub Repository Auditing | Supported |
| Real-Time Scan Visualization | Supported |
| Historical Scan Comparison | Supported |
| Compliance Frameworks | OWASP ASVS 4.0.3, PCI DSS 4.0 |
| Export Formats | PDF, XLSX, HTML, Markdown, CSV, JSON, SARIF |
| Scheduled Scanning | Pro |
| Web Scraping | Pro |
| SSL Monitoring | Supported |
| Uptime Monitoring | Supported |
| Maximum Monitored Targets | 25 (Pro) |
| Authentication | Email/Password, Google OAuth, GitHub OAuth |
| Multi-Factor Authentication | Optional |
| Browser Push Notifications | Pro |
| Subscription Tiers | Free & Pro |
| Mobile Support | Responsive PWA |
| Administration | Superadmin Dashboard |
| Worker Monitoring | Supported |