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name: security-audit description: "Agent Skill: Security audit patterns for PHP/OWASP. Use when conducting security assessments, identifying vulnerabilities (XXE, SQL injection, XSS), or CVSS scoring. By Netresearch."

Security Audit Skill

Security audits, vulnerability assessment, and secure coding patterns aligned with OWASP.

Expertise Areas

• Vulnerabilities: XXE, SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, auth flaws, insecure deserialization
• Risk Scoring: CVSS v3.1 methodology
• Secure Coding: Input validation, output encoding, cryptography, session management

Reference Files

• references/xxe-prevention.md - XXE detection and prevention
• references/owasp-top10.md - OWASP Top 10 patterns
• references/cvss-scoring.md - CVSS scoring methodology
• references/api-key-encryption.md - API key encryption at rest (sodium)
• references/secure-php.md - PHP-specific security patterns
• references/secure-config.md - Secure configuration checklists

Quick Patterns

XML parsing (prevent XXE):

$doc->loadXML($input, LIBXML_NONET | LIBXML_NOENT | LIBXML_DTDLOAD);

SQL (prevent injection):

$stmt = $pdo->prepare('SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?');
$stmt->execute([$id]);

Output (prevent XSS):

echo htmlspecialchars($input, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_HTML5, 'UTF-8');

API keys (encrypt at rest):

$nonce = random_bytes(SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES);
$encrypted = 'enc:' . base64_encode($nonce . sodium_crypto_secretbox($apiKey, $nonce, $key));

Security Checklist

• bcrypt/Argon2 for passwords, CSRF tokens on state changes
• All input validated server-side, parameterized SQL
• XML external entities disabled, file uploads restricted
• Context-appropriate output encoding, CSP configured
• API keys encrypted at rest (sodium_crypto_secretbox)
• TLS 1.2+, secrets not in VCS, audit logging

Verification

./scripts/security-audit.sh /path/to/project

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Contributing: https://github.com/netresearch/security-audit-skill