Most static analysis tools are designed to work on anything. They support a wide range of programming languages, plug into any CI/CD pipeline, and can technically scan a PHP shopping cart just as well as a Java microservice. In practice, though, that generality comes at a cost. Configuration takes time, output tends to be noisy, and developers working on small to mid-size PHP e-commerce projects often do not have a dedicated security team to sort through the results. This paper describes ZeroX Analyser, a static analysis framework built specifically for PHP e-commerce codebases. The detection logic is split into three layers: a keyword-aware credential detector, a Shannon entropy scanner for embedded secrets, and a taint-aware signature matcher that tracks user-supplied input from PHP superglobals to dangerous function calls while suppressing findings where sanitisation functions are present. The signature database covers 93 patterns across 15 vulnerability categories, all mapped to the OWASP Top 10. Evaluated against a 25-file PHP vulnerability corpus and DVWA, ZeroX Analyser found 43 vulnerability instances across 12 files with zero false positives on a clean codebase, achieving 100% precision and 48% recall at the file level. The tool is open source and requires no configuration beyond Python 3.
Anubhav Ratna Dhakal (Tue,) studied this question.