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Security report for bookshop.org

Other · United States

Medium risk. 7 critical or high findings in Security headers, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

70/100

Risk levelMedium

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

The website bookshop.org is currently inaccessible due to a Cloudflare Turnstile security challenge page that requires human verification before access. This prevents extraction of meaningful business, security, or compliance information from the site content. The domain is long-established, registered since 1998 with a reputable registrar and uses Cloudflare for DNS and security services. No privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies are visible on the challenge page. The technical infrastructure includes Cloudflare's security and analytics technologies, but no CMS or other frameworks are detectable. Due to the blocking, the security posture cannot be fully evaluated, and no contact or business details are extractable. The site content is safe with no adult or explicit material detected, but the analysis is incomplete due to the WAF challenge.

Scanned

This is an earlier scan of bookshop.org. View the latest report

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
35/ 100 · High
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.

GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.

Priority findings

7 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. Security headers

    Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.

    • High

      Missing Strict-Transport-Security header

      Forces HTTPS connections

      What to do: Add "Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"

      • CWE-319
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V3.4.1
    • High

      Missing Content-Security-Policy header

      Controls resources the browser is allowed to load

      What to do: Implement a Content-Security-Policy appropriate for your application

      • ASVS V3.4.3
      • OWASP Secure Headers: OWASP Secure Headers Project recommends Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; form-action 'self'; base-uri 'self'; object-src 'none';…

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • High

      No Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

    • High

      No Cookie Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

      What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit

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  • Security score drift

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
75
Security headers
55
Email security
75
DNS health
80
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
35
Average
70

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

Findings that cap the score at 49

Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Breach exposure

Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.

Dark web exposure

Add-on

Leaked records that mention bookshop.org, from OffSeq Breach.

Total records
2,159
Employees
5
Customers
2,127
Third parties
27
Weak passwords
7%

Latest record dated 2026-05-26 · 7 subdomains affected

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  • –uk.bookshop.org2026-05-26
  • –staging-es.bookshop.org2026-05-25
  • –ca.bookshop.org2025-07-20
  • –es.bookshop.org2025-04-20
  • –support.bookshop.org2025-04-20

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Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

No direct business intelligence can be derived from the blocked content. The domain age and registrar data suggest a legitimate and established entity likely operating in the US. The presence of Cloudflare security services indicates an emphasis on protecting the site from automated abuse. Without access to the actual site content, insights into market positioning, business model, or partnerships are unavailable.

Security posture

The site employs Cloudflare Turnstile for bot mitigation, indicating a proactive security measure against automated threats. However, no security headers or SSL configuration details are visible in the provided data. The lack of DNSSEC is noted but not critical given Cloudflare's DNS management. No vulnerabilities or incident response contacts are detectable. The security posture appears cautious but cannot be fully assessed due to content blocking.

Recommendations

  1. Provide access to a publicly viewable version of the site or a staging environment for security and compliance analysis.
  2. Publish clear privacy, cookie, and terms of service policies accessible without security challenges.
  3. Implement and expose security headers and SSL/TLS best practices for improved security posture visibility.
  4. Include contact information and incident response channels on publicly accessible pages.
  5. Consider enabling DNSSEC for enhanced DNS security.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Cloudflare detected. Detected Cloudflare Turnstile challenge page requiring human verification before access. These observations may be incomplete. For a fuller analysis, contact guard@offseq.com.

Business

Technology

Stack
Cloudflare Turnstile, Cloudflare Insights

Analytics and tracking

Services
Cloudflare Insights
Tracking level
minimal

Advertising

Tracking pixels
Cloudflare Insights

Site quality

Key observations

  1. Website content is currently blocked by Cloudflare Turnstile challenge.
  2. No visible business or contact information on the challenge page.
  3. No privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies detected in the provided HTML.
  4. No forms or data collection fields visible except hidden Turnstile response input.
  5. External links only to Cloudflare domains related to security and analytics.
  6. No social media or email contacts found in the provided content.
  7. No visible logos or branding beyond the domain name text.
  8. Security posture cannot be fully assessed due to content blocking.
  9. WHOIS data indicates a long-established domain with consistent registration.
Technical notes

Notes

The site is protected by Cloudflare services including Turnstile CAPTCHA and Cloudflare Insights analytics. The HTML content is minimal and serves only to verify human users before granting access. No CMS or other web frameworks are detectable. The hosting is effectively Cloudflare's edge network. Performance and SEO cannot be assessed due to the blocking. The site uses modern JavaScript and CSS for the challenge page but no business content is present.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

Earlier scans of this domain

  1. 70/100Medium28 findingsView report
  2. 70/100Medium28 findingsView report
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