Verbraucherzentrale · Non-profit · Germany
Medium risk. 6 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Security headers and 2 other checks.
The Lebensmittel-Forum website is an interactive consumer advisory platform operated by the Verbraucherzentrale, focusing on food and nutrition topics. It provides a free question-and-answer forum where consumers can ask questions related to food safety, nutrition, labeling, and other related topics. The platform publishes selected answers while respecting data privacy. The target audience is primarily German-speaking consumers interested in food and nutrition information. The website is positioned as a trusted non-profit resource in the consumer protection sector in Germany. Technically, the site is built on Drupal 10 CMS, leveraging modern web technologies such as jQuery, lazy loading for images, and Matomo for analytics. The site is mobile-optimized, accessible, and SEO-friendly, with good navigation and content structure. Hosting details are not explicitly disclosed but DNS records indicate professional domain management via domaincontrol.com. From a security perspective, the site uses HTTPS and follows basic security best practices, though it lacks explicit security headers and published security policies. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. Privacy compliance is partially met with a comprehensive privacy policy but lacks a cookie consent mechanism. No incident response or vulnerability disclosure information is published. Overall, the website is professionally maintained, trustworthy, and safe for general audiences. Strategic improvements include implementing cookie consent, enhancing security headers, and publishing security and incident response policies to strengthen compliance and trust.
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NIS2 Art. 21(2)
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.
6 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements
What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures
GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage
What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes
GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies
What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit
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.
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
SPF, DKIM and DMARC stop others sending email that looks like it comes from your domain, a common route to phishing and invoice fraud.
DMARC provides email authentication and reporting
What to do: Add DMARC record: "v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:dmarc@yourdomain.com"
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
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
Not counted
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.
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
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
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
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