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Security report for tomate-cerise.be

Tomate-Cerise · Media · Belgium

High risk. 14 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view, Network security and 2 other checks.

Security score

43/100

Risk levelHigh

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

Tomate-Cerise is a well-established Belgian culinary blog founded in 2007, targeting cooking enthusiasts and general francophone audiences interested in seasonal recipes, culinary experiences, and travel tips. The website demonstrates a strong market position within the Belgian food blogging niche, offering a variety of content including recipes, restaurant reviews, and product tests. Technically, the site is built on WordPress with modern plugins such as WP Rocket and Yoast SEO, ensuring good performance, mobile optimization, and SEO compliance. Security posture is solid with HTTPS and Content-Security-Policy headers, though additional security headers and privacy mechanisms could be improved. The absence of WHOIS data due to registry restrictions limits domain trust verification, but the professional content and consistent branding support legitimacy. Overall, the site is a credible and professional culinary blog with room for enhanced privacy and security transparency.

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NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
25/ 100 · Critical
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

14 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. GDPR outside view

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

    • Critical

      EU business without adequate privacy measures

      EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements

      What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures

  2. Network security

    Services reachable from the internet are the first thing attackers probe. Anything open that does not need to be should be closed.

    • Critical

      Critical Service Exposed: Telnet

      Port 23 (Telnet) is publicly accessible - Telnet - Unencrypted remote access

      What to do: Immediately restrict access to Telnet using firewall or VPN

      • NIS2 21(2)(e)
      • IR 2024/2690 6.7.2(f): Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690, Annex point 6.7.2(f): Network security
      • NIST CM-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 CM-7: Least Functionality
      • NIST SC-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 SC-7: Boundary Protection
    • Critical

      Critical Service Exposed: SMB

      Port 445 (SMB) is publicly accessible - SMB - Windows file sharing, high risk

      What to do: Immediately restrict access to SMB using firewall or VPN

      • NIS2 21(2)(e)
      • IR 2024/2690 6.7.2(f): Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690, Annex point 6.7.2(f): Network security
      • NIST CM-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 CM-7: Least Functionality
      • NIST SC-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 SC-7: Boundary Protection
    • Critical

      Critical Service Exposed: RDP

      Port 3389 (RDP) is publicly accessible - RDP - Remote Desktop, prime ransomware target

      What to do: Immediately restrict access to RDP using firewall or VPN

      • NIS2 21(2)(e)
      • IR 2024/2690 6.7.2(f): Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690, Annex point 6.7.2(f): Network security
      • NIST CM-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 CM-7: Least Functionality
      • NIST SC-7: NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 SC-7: Boundary Protection

  3. 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

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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
15
Email security
75
DNS health
65
Network security
0
GDPR outside view
25
Average
43

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 · found on this site
  • 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

Technical appendix

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

Business context

Business profile

The blog operates on a content-driven business model, likely monetized through advertising networks like Mediavine and affiliate marketing. It targets a niche audience of Belgian and francophone cooking enthusiasts, leveraging long-term content creation since 2007 to build authority. The partnership ecosystem includes advertising and marketing tools such as Mediavine, Pinterest, and WonderPush. Growth indicators include regular content updates and diversified culinary topics. The blog's competitive advantage lies in its longevity, quality content, and local Belgian culinary focus.

Security posture

The website employs HTTPS with a strong SSL configuration and a Content-Security-Policy header to block mixed content, indicating a good baseline security posture. However, it lacks several recommended security headers such as X-Frame-Options, X-XSS-Protection, and Strict-Transport-Security. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the HTML content. The site does not provide visible security or incident response contact information, nor a vulnerability disclosure policy or security.txt file, which are areas for improvement. Privacy compliance is minimal, with no visible privacy or cookie policies, which may pose compliance risks under GDPR.

Recommendations

  1. Implement and prominently display a comprehensive privacy policy and cookie consent mechanism to improve GDPR compliance.
  2. Add additional security headers including X-Frame-Options, X-XSS-Protection, and Strict-Transport-Security to enhance security posture.
  3. Publish a security.txt file and provide clear incident response contact information to facilitate vulnerability reporting and incident management.
  4. Regularly audit and update third-party scripts and advertising integrations to minimize security risks.
  5. Enhance transparency by providing clear business contact information including emails and phone numbers.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Tomate-Cerise
Description
Blog belge pour Gourmands depuis 2007... recettes, gastronomie, restaurant, test produit,...
Key services
Seasonal recipes, Restaurant reviews, Product tests, Travel and culinary tips
Content quality
excellent
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress, jQuery, WP Rocket, Yoast SEO, Mediavine ads, WonderPush
Platforms
WordPress
Performance
fast
Mobile
excellent
Accessibility
good
SEO
excellent

Security

Observed score
85/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Content-Security-Policy header present
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Services
Google Tag Manager
Tracking level
moderate
Privacy practices
basic

Advertising

Ad networks
Mediavine, Google DoubleClick
Tracking pixels
WonderPush
Marketing tools
Pinterest Pin It Button
Transparency
basic

Site quality

Design
excellent
User experience
excellent
Content relevance
excellent
Navigation
excellent
Professionalism
excellent
Trustworthiness
high

Key observations

  1. Website is a well-established Belgian culinary blog with rich content and good SEO.
  2. No WHOIS data available due to privacy or registry restrictions.
  3. No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service pages detected in the provided content.
  4. No direct contact emails or phone numbers found in the HTML content.
  5. Uses multiple third-party advertising and tracking services.
  6. Good technical implementation with modern WordPress plugins and performance optimizations.
  7. No security or incident response contact information found.
  8. No vulnerability disclosure or security.txt file detected.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on WordPress CMS with a modern tech stack including jQuery, WP Rocket for caching and performance optimization, Yoast SEO for search engine optimization, and Mediavine for advertising. The site uses lazy loading for images and scripts, improving load times and user experience. Mobile optimization is excellent with responsive design and accessible navigation. The site includes structured data in JSON-LD format for SEO benefits. Hosting provider details are not explicitly found. Overall, the technical infrastructure is robust and well-maintained, supporting fast performance and good SEO.
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

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