Vulnerability Assessment Report for a Live Website (Read-Only Scope)
🔍 About the Task
Every business today owns a website — but most websites are not secure.
Small businesses, startups, and agencies often:
- use outdated plugins or frameworks
- misconfigure security headers
- expose sensitive information unknowingly
Clients usually don’t ask for hacking.
They ask for clarity:
“Is my website safe?”
“What are the risks?”
“What should we fix first?”
This task teaches you how to do exactly that — professionally and ethically.
🎯 Objective
Your goal is to:
- Analyze a public website for common security weaknesses
- Classify risks in a business-friendly way
- Explain issues clearly (no technical jargon overload)
- Suggest practical remediation steps
- Present everything in a professional audit report
You are learning security consulting, not hacking.
⚠️ Scope & Ethics (Very Important)
This task follows strict ethical guidelines.
Allowed
- Public-facing pages only
- Passive scanning
- Header checks
- Configuration analysis
Not Allowed
- Login bypass
- Exploitation
- Brute force attacks
- Denial-of-Service (DoS)
- Any activity that can harm the website
Think like a security auditor, not an attacker.
🛠️ Tools You’ll Use
You do not need advanced tools or paid software.
Security & Analysis Tools
- Nmap – basic port & exposure analysis
- OWASP ZAP (Passive Scan) – identify vulnerabilities without attacking
- Browser DevTools – inspect headers, cookies, and client-side issues
Reporting Tool
- Canva – to design a professional vulnerability assessment report
✅ What You’ll Do (Step-by-Step)
As part of this task, you will:
- Select a public website
(demo website, personal site, or permitted test domain) - Perform read-only analysis
- Identify exposed services
- Check security headers
- Detect outdated components (if visible)
- Document findings
- What is the issue?
- Why does it matter?
- What is the risk level?
- Classify risks
- Low / Medium / High
- Suggest clear remediation
- Practical fixes a business can understand
✨ Key Features of Your Report
Your final report should include:
✔ List of identified vulnerabilities
✔ Risk classification (Low / Medium / High)
✔ Simple explanation (non-technical language)
✔ Clear remediation steps
✔ Clean, professional layout
✅ GitHub Repositories You Can Use as Inspiration
🔹 Sample Vulnerability Assessment Report – A real VAPT report example showing how findings are documented.
👉 https://github.com/harygovind/Sample-vulnerability-report-for-testphp.vulnweb GitHub
🔹 Pentest Report Template – A reusable report structure that helps you format professional findings.
👉 https://github.com/MTK911/pentest-report-template GitHub
🔹 Public Penetration Test Reports Collection – A large list of publicly published security reports for real-world context.
👉 https://github.com/juliocesarfort/public-pentesting-reports GitHub
🧠 Additional Helpful Resources
(Not full report templates, but extremely useful for learning how to structure testing and reporting)
🔹 OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG) – A comprehensive guide covering how tests should be done, including reporting best practices.
👉 https://github.com/OWASP/www-project-web-security-testing-guide GitHub
🔹 Example Web Penetration Test Report Sample (includes doc/pdf)
👉 https://github.com/h0tPlug1n/Web-Penetration-Testing-Report-Sample GitHub
🔹 Security Audit Report Template (basic structure)
👉 https://github.com/darkoid/SecurityAuditReportTemplate Gi
📤 Final Deliverable
You must submit:
- A Vulnerability Assessment Report:
- Designed in Canva
- Includes findings, risk levels, and fixes
- Supporting evidence:
- Screenshots (where applicable)
- Tool outputs (cleanly documented)
- A public GitHub repository containing:
- Report PDF
- Evidence
- README explaining:
- website tested
- scope
- tools used
Your submission should feel like something you could confidently send to:
- a business owner
- an agency client
- a security consultant
🌟 Showcase Your Work
After completion:
- Share your dashboard design on LinkedIn
- Explain:
- which agency you designed it for
- how the workflow improves efficiency
- Tag Future Interns