30 Magento stores

Adobe Certified developers

Magento-only since 2019

Magento Code Audit

Is your Magento codebase healthy, or quietly accumulating the kind of debt that turns every change into a fight? A code audit gives you an independent answer — an honest, agency-neutral read on quality, architecture and maintainability. It's a fixed-price engagement, and one of the most common reasons people request it is to get a second opinion on work someone else is doing for them.

30 Magento stores

Adobe Certified developers

Magento-only since 2019

Magento Code Audit

Is your Magento codebase healthy, or quietly accumulating the kind of debt that turns every change into a fight? A code audit gives you an independent answer — an honest, agency-neutral read on quality, architecture and maintainability. It's a fixed-price engagement, and one of the most common reasons people request it is to get a second opinion on work someone else is doing for them.

30 Magento stores

Adobe Certified developers

Magento-only since 2019

Magento Code Audit

Is your Magento codebase healthy, or quietly accumulating the kind of debt that turns every change into a fight? A code audit gives you an independent answer — an honest, agency-neutral read on quality, architecture and maintainability. It's a fixed-price engagement, and one of the most common reasons people request it is to get a second opinion on work someone else is doing for them.

An independent read on your codebase

You can't see code quality from the front end. A store can look perfect and run on a codebase that's fragile, undocumented and expensive to change — and you'd never know until a simple request takes three weeks and breaks two other things. A code audit makes the invisible visible. The merchants who ask for one are usually here:

Evaluating their current agency — wanting a neutral second opinion on whether the code they're paying for is good, and whether the time being billed is reasonable.

Considering a takeover — about to inherit a store and wanting to know what's really in the codebase before they own the problem.

Planning ahead — facing a big project on top of an existing store, and needing to know whether the foundation can take the weight.


Because we audit independently, you get a straight answer — not a sales pitch dressed as a diagnosis.

What the audit covers

Code quality

Patch & version review

Static analysis with the standard Magento tooling — PHPStan, PHP CodeSniffer, Mess Detector — plus a developer's read on what the metrics don't capture: readability, consistency, debt.

Which Magento security patches and CVE advisories are missing, how exposed each gap leaves you, and what applying them involves.

Architecture & Magento standards

Extension security check

Whether the code follows Magento's architecture — dependency injection, plugins, observers, preferences, service contracts — or fights it with workarounds that will cost you later.

Third-party extensions reviewed for known vulnerabilities and risky code — often where the real exposure hides, since they're rarely audited after install.

Custom code review

Admin hardening

A focused look at the bespoke modules — where the real risk usually lives — for correctness, structure and whether they were built to last or built to ship.

The admin panel: custom admin URL, two-factor authentication, IP whitelisting, session and permission settings — closing the easiest way in.

Extension audit & conflicts

Code & dependency scan

The third-party extension stack reviewed for quality, conflicts and the kind of overlap that quietly breaks things after the next upgrade.

The codebase and composer.lock reviewed for known-vulnerable dependencies, plus common flaws — XSS, SQL injection, CSRF — in custom code.

Performance & DB practices

Magecart & skimmer check

Code-level performance: query patterns, indexer and cron health, EAV-versus-flat decisions — the choices that decide whether the store scales.

Checking for the card-skimming code that targets checkout specifically — the Magecart-style attack that quietly steals payment data from compromised stores.

Tests & maintainability

PCI & compliance gaps

Whether there are tests at all, what coverage exists, and how realistically another developer could pick this codebase up and work in it safely.

Where the store stands against PCI DSS expectations, which gaps the audit can guide you to close, and which point to deeper remediation.

What you receive

The audit produces one clear deliverable: a written report on the state of your codebase that you can act on, share, and keep.

  • An overall health assessment — is this codebase in good, fair or poor shape, and why

  • Prioritised findings by severity, so you know what matters and what's cosmetic

  • Architecture and standards-compliance notes against Magento best practice

  • Specific problems in custom modules and extensions, named and explained

  • A maintainability verdict — how hard (and how risky) this code is to work in

  • Concrete recommendations, ordered by impact

The audit produces one clear deliverable: a written security report you can act on, share with stakeholders, and keep.

  • A prioritised list of findings — critical, high, medium, low — so you fix the dangerous things first

  • For each finding: what it is, how exposed it leaves you, and what fixing it involves

  • Missing patches and vulnerable dependencies identified by name

  • Admin and server hardening recommendations, concrete and actionable

  • A PCI-gap summary where payment compliance is in scope

  • A clear next step — what you can do yourself, and what needs developer time

The report is yours regardless of what you do next — keep it, act on it with your own team, or use it to hold your current agency to account. An independent audit only works if it's genuinely independent.

The report is yours regardless of whether we do the fix work — even if you take it to another team. That's the point of a fixed-price audit: an honest assessment with no obligation attached.

Related services

When the audit finds a codebase in real trouble — audit-first stabilisation and cleanup.

Worried specifically about speed? A focused performance audit with Core Web Vitals and a fix estimate.

The security counterpart — vulnerabilities, patches, admin hardening and PCI gaps in a written report.

For serious or urgent findings — audit-first stabilisation of an exposed or compromised store.

Make security routine — SLA-backed patching, monitoring and hardening so problems are caught early.

Worried about code quality and stability as well as security? A deeper review of the codebase itself.

When the audit finds a codebase in real trouble — audit-first stabilisation and cleanup.

Worried specifically about speed? A focused performance audit with Core Web Vitals and a fix estimate.

The security counterpart — vulnerabilities, patches, admin hardening and PCI gaps in a written report.

When the audit finds a codebase in real trouble — audit-first stabilisation and cleanup.

Worried specifically about speed? A focused performance audit with Core Web Vitals and a fix estimate.

The security counterpart — vulnerabilities, patches, admin hardening and PCI gaps in a written report.