--- title: Ward: New Security Scanner for Laravel (written in Go) description: Ward is an open-source security scanner for Laravel projects, built in Go. It performs static analysis by scanning a Laravel project folder or Git repository... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ward-new-security-scanner-for-laravel-written-in-go--dji7is7et twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Ward: New Security Scanner for Laravel (written in Go) | daily.dev og:description: Ward is an open-source security scanner for Laravel projects, built in Go. It performs static analysis by scanning a Laravel project folder or Git repository... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ward-new-security-scanner-for-laravel-written-in-go--dji7is7et og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dji7is7Et.png og:image:alt: Ward: New Security Scanner for Laravel (written in Go) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Ward: New Security Scanner for Laravel (written in Go) **[Laravel Daily](https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldaily)** · 7 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Ward is an open-source security scanner for Laravel projects, built in Go. It performs static analysis by scanning a Laravel project folder or Git repository and reports vulnerabilities across severity levels (critical, high, medium, low). A demo scan on a 7-month-old Laravel project found a critical LiveWire vulnerability, outdated dependencies, debug mode enabled, weak random number usage, potential SQL injection patterns, and missing route middleware. The tool surfaces some false positives — particularly around local dev environment settings and raw queries with parameterized inputs — and its usefulness for dependency scanning overlaps with existing tools like GitHub Dependabot and `composer outdated`. It supports custom rules via YAML configuration and has a terminal UI for browsing findings. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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