Pentest Reporting for E-Commerce & Retail
Protect your online storefront, payment systems, and customer data with pentest reports that drive remediation and satisfy PCI DSS assessors.
Security Challenges in E-Commerce & Retail
E-commerce and retail organizations process millions of payment transactions daily, making them high-value targets for financially motivated attackers. From Magecart-style card skimming attacks injected into checkout pages to credential stuffing campaigns against customer accounts, the threat landscape is both diverse and relentless. The shift to headless commerce architectures, microservices, and extensive third-party integrations has dramatically increased the attack surface.
- PCI DSS compliance requires regular penetration testing of cardholder data environments, including web applications, APIs, and network infrastructure that process, store, or transmit payment card data.
- Client-side JavaScript supply chain attacks targeting payment pages can compromise thousands of transactions before detection, requiring thorough testing of front-end dependencies and content security policies.
- Loyalty programs, gift card systems, and promotional engines introduce business logic vulnerabilities such as price manipulation, coupon abuse, and reward point theft that automated scanners cannot detect.
Penetration testing in retail environments must cover the full transaction lifecycle: product browsing, cart management, checkout and payment processing, order fulfillment APIs, and customer account management. Reports need to clearly distinguish between vulnerabilities that directly threaten cardholder data and those affecting broader customer information, with risk ratings that reflect the financial and reputational impact of a breach in a consumer-facing business.
How Vulnsy Helps
Vulnsy streamlines penetration testing reporting for e-commerce and retail security teams. Finding templates cover the vulnerabilities most commonly found in online retail environments: payment form injection points, insecure API endpoints handling order data, cross-site scripting in product review systems, and server-side request forgery in inventory management integrations. Templates include PCI DSS requirement mappings so findings translate directly into compliance evidence.
The platform's report generation capabilities produce documents segmented by cardholder data environment scope, making it straightforward for QSAs and internal compliance teams to validate testing coverage against PCI DSS penetration testing requirements. Executive summaries highlight business risk in terms retail leadership understands: potential revenue loss, customer trust impact, and regulatory exposure.
- Client portals let e-commerce security teams track remediation across development sprints, with finding status updates that integrate into agile workflows common in retail tech organizations.
- Team collaboration supports the parallel testing of web storefronts, mobile shopping applications, and backend fulfillment APIs that modern retail assessments require.
- Reusable templates with retail-specific context ensure consistent, high-quality reports whether testing a single storefront or a multi-brand retail portfolio.