Alternatives to 42Crunch in E-Commerce

E-commerce platforms expose multiple public APIs for checkout, account, catalog, and payment flows. These surfaces require continuous verification because vulnerabilities can lead to account takeover, payment fraud, and data leakage. This tool is a black-box API security scanner that submits URLs and returns a risk score and prioritized findings without needing code access or agents.

The scanner evaluates 12 categories aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023) and maps findings to PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II controls. Detection includes authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations, Broken Object Level Authorization and IDOR, BFLA and privilege escalation, property over-exposure, input validation issues such as CORS wildcard and dangerous methods, rate limiting and resource consumption, data exposure including PII and API key formats, encryption and transport misconfigurations, SSRF indicators, inventory and versioning issues, unsafe consumption surfaces, and LLM/AI security probes across tiered scan depths.

OpenAPI specifications in versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 are parsed with recursive $ref resolution, and spec definitions are cross-referenced against runtime behavior to identify undefined security schemes, deprecated operations, and missing pagination.

Authenticated scanning (Starter tier and above) supports Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification is enforced via DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file so that only the domain owner can scan with credentials. The scanner only forwards a limited allowlist of headers including Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers.

Safety is maintained through read-only methods only; destructive payloads are never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer scan data can be deleted on demand and is purged within 30 days of cancellation, and it is never sold or used for model training.

The Web Dashboard centralizes scans, report viewing, score trend tracking, and branded compliance PDF downloads. The CLI via the middlebrick npm package supports commands such as middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output. A GitHub Action can gate CI/CD, failing the build when the score drops below a defined threshold. An MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants, and a programmable API supports custom integrations.

Continuous monitoring (Pro tier) provides scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, diff detection for new and resolved findings, score drift tracking, email alerts rate-limited to one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks that auto-disable after five consecutive failures.

The scanner does not fix, patch, block, or remediate issues; it detects and reports with remediation guidance. It does not execute active SQL injection or command injection tests, which require intrusive payloads outside its scope. Business logic vulnerabilities, blind SSRF relying on out-of-band infrastructure, and certain infrastructure fingerprinting are not in scope. For high-stakes audits, it does not replace a human pentester.