How to Get Your Vibe-Coded App Audited for Security (Without Spending $5,000)

You shipped your app in a weekend using Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, or Claude Code. Users are signing up. Maybe you're even charging money. Then someone asks: "Has this been security tested?" And you realize: you have no idea. The Problem With Free Scanners Free scanners catch surface-level issues. Missing headers. Outdated dependencies. Exposed ports. They don't catch: Authentication bypass (someone accessing another user's data by changing a URL parameter) Insecure API keys hardcoded in client-side JavaScript Database queries that accept user input without sanitization File upload endpoints that accept executable code Session tokens that don't expire We've scanned 5,600+ vibe-coded applications. 60% failed basic security checks. The failures weren't exotic zero-days. They were fundamentals: no HTTPS, no Content-Security-Policy, no rate limiting, hardcoded credentials in public repos. Free scanners flag some of this. But they can't tell you what actually puts your users at risk, or how to