1. Executive one-pager
All findings ranked by $/mo risk reduction. Severity (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM). Read in 60 seconds, decide what to fix this sprint.
Drop a GitHub repo URL containing your Stripe webhook handler. Within 1 hour, get 6 deterministic patterns checked — signature verification, missing event handlers, idempotency holes, sync dispatch issues, retry gaps, PII logging. Ranked by $/mo risk reduction, with before/after diffs you can paste into a PR.
All findings ranked by $/mo risk reduction. Severity (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM). Read in 60 seconds, decide what to fix this sprint.
Actual patch snippets for the top 3 findings using the Stripe SDK. Paste into a PR. No "go talk to a consultant" handwaving.
CRITICAL = silent money loss or PCI exposure. HIGH = duplicate charges or refund attack vectors. MEDIUM = ops debt, retry storms, log bloat.
For each finding: confidence rating (0.0-1.0), $/mo risk-reduction estimate, implementation effort (LOC), and a rollout-safety strategy.
Implement the fixes, then re-submit the same repo. We re-run the analysis. If the remaining risk surface isn't measurably reduced, full refund.
Stripe-CLI listen --forward-to verification · Workbench-style endpoint inspection · Idempotency-Key header patterns · event-replay walkthroughs · constructEvent vs raw HMAC.
| Pattern | Why it matters | Typical severity |
|---|---|---|
| Missing signature verification | Anyone can forge events to your endpoint — fake "payment succeeded", trigger refunds, escalate access. | CRITICAL |
| Missing event handlers | Stripe sends 100+ event types. Missing payment_intent.succeeded or charge.dispute.created = silent revenue/risk leak. | HIGH |
| Idempotency holes | Stripe retries failed deliveries up to 3 days. Without an idempotency check on event.id, you double-fulfill orders. | HIGH |
| Sync dispatch issues | Handler does heavy work (email, DB write, 3rd-party call) before returning 200. Webhook times out, Stripe retries, downstream duplicates. | HIGH |
| Retry gaps | No 5xx handling, no dead-letter queue. Lost events disappear from your books. | MEDIUM |
| PII logging | Logging full event payload to console / Sentry / Datadog leaks card brand, email, address — PCI scope expansion. | MEDIUM |
| This is... | This is not... |
|---|---|
| A one-shot, static-analysis audit of your handler | A monthly SaaS subscription with seat pricing |
| Code-level findings you can paste into a PR | Runtime observability requiring prod-API integration |
| Deterministic regex + AST (no LLM-in-the-loop) | "AI told me your code is bad" handwaving |
| Framework-agnostic (Express, Next.js, FastAPI, Django, Flask, Hono, Cloudflare Workers) | Locked to one framework or one runtime |
| Anonymous (we never touch your Stripe API key) | A PCI-compliance certification or a Stripe-blessed audit |
This is a brand-new product. The 6-pattern analyzer ships with 22/22 pytest coverage, but Stripe Webhook Audit has delivered zero paid audits yet.
Honest first-customer offer: the first 3 customers pay $49 via manual invoice instead of the public $79. Email miloantaeus@gmail.com with subject "Stripe webhook audit — first-3 beta" and your repo URL. We'll send a $49 PayPal invoice directly and run the audit the same hour. In exchange: a 90-day follow-up audit and permission to anonymize learnings into the pattern library.
Why honest pricing: consultants inflate "potential risk" projections to justify $5K engagement fees. There's no sponsor here, no funnel to upsell into a retainer. If the audit doesn't surface at least one CRITICAL or HIGH severity finding, refund. If you implement the fixes and the re-audit doesn't show measurable risk reduction, refund. The 30-day re-audit voucher is structural accountability, not marketing copy.
stripe.webhooks.constructEvent or raw-body signature check, missing handlers for high-value event types (payment_intent.succeeded, customer.subscription.deleted, invoice.payment_failed, charge.dispute.created), missing idempotency check on event.id, heavy work before HTTP 200, missing 5xx retry logic, raw event payload logged to stdout. Deterministic means: 0% hallucination rate, 100% reproducible findings.