Use this OWASP ASVS baseline template for Magento to define the appropriate verification level, identify applicable requirements, and combine automated checks with human evidence.
A security specification, not a risk list
ASVS is an open standard of concrete security requirements for web applications and web services. Teams can use the same requirements to define acceptance criteria, guide secure development, structure testing, and record verification evidence.
Unlike the OWASP Top 10, which builds awareness around broad risk categories, ASVS describes what should be verified. It gives product owners, developers, architects, and security testers a shared vocabulary for deciding whether a control is present and effective.
Risk-based assurance
The levels are cumulative: Level 2 includes every applicable Level 1 requirement, and Level 3 includes every applicable requirement from Levels 1 and 2. Choose the target from business impact, data sensitivity, exposure, and threat model.
The minimum set of essential application-security controls. A practical entry point for lower-risk applications and teams beginning a structured verification program.
Use it to establish a baseline—not as proof that all relevant risks have been addressed.
A comprehensive target for applications containing sensitive data or supporting important business processes. It addresses most common software risks.
Recommended for most production web applications and APIs.
The highest assurance target for critical or high-value applications where compromise could cause severe financial, safety, privacy, or operational harm.
Level 3 typically requires threat-model-driven verification, deeper architectural analysis, stronger controls, and more rigorous evidence.
345 security requirements in ASVS 5.0.0
ASVS 5.0.0 groups its requirements into 17 chapters. Each identifier follows chapter.section.requirement. Include the version when citing one—for example, v5.0.0-1.2.5.
Magebean can automate the subset of requirements that can be observed reliably from Magento code, configuration, and the deployment environment. Requirements involving architecture, business logic, organizational processes, or manual security testing require human-required verification and supporting evidence.
From standard to evidence
Identify the Magento storefront, Admin, APIs, checkout, customer data, extensions, integrations, trust boundaries, and deployment environment.
Use risk and business impact to select L1, L2, or L3. Document components that need a higher target.
Review each requirement against the Magento architecture and record a defensible reason for anything that does not apply.
Combine architecture review, code review, configuration inspection, automated checks, and manual security testing.
Track failed requirements to closure and retain evidence against the versioned ASVS identifier.
From verification to continuous assurance
Magebean provides ASVS Profiles as inputs to the same managed Assessment workflow used for other Profiles. A Company configures applicable Rules as a Baseline, assigns it to an Application, and processes automated and human-required Items in an independent Assessment.
Start from an ASVS Profile and configure applicable Rules as a Company Baseline. Each Assessment snapshots that configuration when it is created.
Run repeatable checks for observable controls and assign human-required items for architecture, code, process, or manual security review.
Attach notes, files, screenshots, or other evidence to a requirement and keep submission separate from approval.
Convert failed verification into actionable findings, track remediation, and re-test the affected requirements.
Re-run automated checks after deployment changes and identify results that need renewed verification.
Magebean supports an ASVS assessment workflow; it does not provide ASVS certification or guarantee compliance.
Command line automation
Run the selected ASVS baseline against a Magento project to collect repeatable technical evidence and identify requirements that still need human-required verification.
Illustrative output — final command and check coverage may change. Automated checks support an ASVS assessment. They do not verify every applicable requirement and do not replace threat modeling, architecture review, code review, or manual security testing.
$ php magebean.phar --path=/var/www/magento --profile=asvs-l1
Profile: OWASP ASVS 5.0 Level 1
Baseline: Magento Production
Illustrative output — coverage may change
Observable controls → automated evidence
Context-dependent controls → human-required verification
Failed verification → finding and remediation
OWASP ASVS for Magento
Begin with the appropriate ASVS level, tailor applicability to your Magento environment, and manage automated checks and human evidence in one assessment workflow.
Use the stable OWASP release as the source of truth for formal scope, requirement wording, levels, and applicability.