Ensuring the security of your PHP application is extremely important. Here are some crucial tools and practices to strengthen your application's defenses:
Tools:
Web Framework Hardening:
Web framework hardening involves securing a web application by implementing security best practices within the framework itself, including configuring the framework correctly, using secure coding practices, and protecting against common vulnerabilities.
Snuffleupagus - Security module for PHP7/8.
Secure-Headers - Add security-related headers to HTTP response.
Static Code Analysis:
Static code analysis is a crucial step in ensuring the quality, reliability, and security of your PHP applications. These tools can identify potential errors, security vulnerabilities, and code style inconsistencies by examining your code without executing it.
Enlightn - Enlightn is a static and dynamic analysis tool for enhancing the security of Laravel applications.
Exakat - Exakat is a PHP static code analysis, with serious Security reviews.
phpcs-security-audit - phpcs-security-audit is a set of PHP_CodeSniffer rules that finds vulnerabilities and weaknesses related to security in PHP code.
progpilot - A static application security testing (SAST) for PHP.
Parse - The Parse scanner is a static analysis tool used to inspect your PHP code for potential security issues.
SonarPHP from SonarQube - A static code analyzer for PHP language is used as an extension for the SonarQube platform. It includes 200+ rules, supports up to PHP 8, allows the import of unit test and coverage results, and supports custom rules.
Snyk Code - PHP support (beta) and available in Snyk free tier.
Vulnerabilities and Security Advisories:
security-checker - PHP frontend for security checker.
roave/security-advisories - Add this dependency to disallow known/vulnerable installation of packages directly through composer update
Security Advisories - A database of PHP security advisories.
php-malware-detector - PHP malware detector
Snyk Open Source - Package manager scanner with a free tier