How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities using Oh Dear

A critical security vulnerability was recently discovered in Livewire v3 that allows remote code execution, as Stephen Rees-Carter reported on Securing Laravel. While patches are released quickly, many applications remain vulnerable because developers simply don't know about the issue yet. Oh Dear's Application Health monitoring solves this by continuously checking your production environment for security vulnerabilities and immediately notifying you when issues are detected.

For Laravel applications, this is incredibly easy to set up using the spatie/laravel-health package, which can automatically check your composer dependencies against known vulnerabilities. I wrote a detailed guide on my personal blog about protecting your Laravel app against critical vulnerabilities that walks through the entire setup process. Don't wait for the next zero-day - start monitoring your application's health today.