diff --git a/.github/workflows/plugin-ci-workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/plugin-ci-workflow.yml
index eb0d30e..61f8a09 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/plugin-ci-workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/plugin-ci-workflow.yml
@@ -31,12 +31,19 @@ on:
       - main
       - develop
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 env:
   CACTI: 1.2.x
-  COMPOSER_ALLOW_SUPERUSER: 1
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
 
 jobs:
   integration-test:
+    timeout-minutes: 45
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
 
     strategy:
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
 
     services:
       mariadb:
-        image: mariadb:11.8
+        image: mariadb:11.8@sha256:6422478cb8e159f080fb1d8ccf65101e26fe51385787fde7d16c3b165a331f15
         env:
           MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: cactiroot
           MYSQL_DATABASE: cacti
@@ -67,6 +74,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout Cacti
       uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
+        persist-credentials: false
         repository: Cacti/cacti
         ref: ${{ env.CACTI }}
         path: cacti
@@ -74,6 +82,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Checkout webseer Plugin
       uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
       with:
+        persist-credentials: false
         path: cacti/plugins/webseer
         # patch-coverage.php diffs against the base branch below.
         fetch-depth: 0
@@ -82,6 +91,7 @@ jobs:
       uses: shivammathur/setup-php@eb7c497e18156a6bbabfef1d3a82760b9eda3962 # 2.40.0
       with:
         php-version: ${{ matrix.php }}
+        tools: composer:2.10.3
         extensions: intl, mysql, gd, ldap, gmp, xml, curl, json, mbstring, snmp
         coverage: xdebug
         ini-values: "post_max_size=256M, max_execution_time=60, date.timezone=America/New_York"
@@ -130,22 +140,24 @@ jobs:
         mysql --defaults-file="$HOME/.my.cnf" cacti < ${{ github.workspace }}/cacti/cacti.sql
         mysql --defaults-file="$HOME/.my.cnf" -e "INSERT INTO settings (name, value) VALUES ('path_php_binary', '/usr/bin/php')" cacti
 
-    - name: Validate composer files
-      run: |
-        cd ${{ github.workspace }}/cacti
-        if [ -f composer.json ]; then
-          composer validate --strict || true
-        fi
-
-    - name: Install Composer Dependencies
-      run: |
-        cd ${{ github.workspace }}/cacti
-        if [ -f composer.json ]; then
-          composer config --no-plugins allow-plugins.pestphp/pest-plugin true
-          composer require --no-progress --no-interaction "pestphp/pest: ^3" "pestphp/pest-plugin-drift: ^3.0"
-          rm -f composer.lock
-          composer install --dev --no-progress
-        fi
+    # Core's release archives exclude .github and tests. Fetch these paths
+    # through Git at the immutable helper revision instead of an Action archive.
+    - name: Checkout shared CI tooling
+      uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
+      with:
+        repository: Cacti/cacti
+        ref: f3ff777992875740e4665fedfe2eff8335f5b894
+        persist-credentials: false
+        path: ci-tools
+        sparse-checkout: |
+          .github/actions/setup-plugin-dependencies
+          tests/tools/plugin-harness
+
+    - name: Install locked Cacti and plugin test dependencies
+      uses: ./ci-tools/.github/actions/setup-plugin-dependencies
+      with:
+        cacti-directory: cacti
+        install-core-dev: 'false'
 
     - name: Create Cacti config.php
       run: |
@@ -186,7 +198,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Run Pest Unit Tests
       run: |
         cd ${{ github.workspace }}/cacti
-        include/vendor/bin/pest --configuration=plugins/webseer/phpunit.xml \
+        "$CACTI_PEST_BIN" --configuration=plugins/webseer/phpunit.xml \
           --coverage-clover=plugins/webseer/coverage/clover.xml
 
     # Whole-file coverage is meaningless here: most of the plugin only runs
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f812827..d496b92 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 * refactor: Move all schema management into includes/database.php (the thold model) and manage the seven plugin_webseer_* tables through Cacti's plugin table API - create with api_plugin_db_table_create() and refresh existing tables with db_update_table() from a single shared definition, replacing the raw CREATE TABLE/version-gated ALTER TABLE migrations (the historical plugin_webseer_url_log -> plugin_webseer_urls_log rename is kept as a guarded pre-step); the upgrade path now also updates the full plugin_config row. Also switches every file inclusion from include/include_once to require/require_once
 * dev: Measure CI coverage with xdebug instead of pcov so the plugin's own sources are instrumented (pcov auto-scopes to the Composer root and skipped cacti/plugins/, leaving the patch-coverage gate with nothing to measure)
 * dev: Enforce patch coverage of changed lines in CI and remove the inert COMPOSER_ROOT_VERSION env from the Pest step
+* dev: Pin the CI database image and shared test dependencies, disable persisted checkout credentials, and limit workflow permissions and runtime
 * issue: Fix bug where SERVERS/URLS refresh from a master server could pass a false base64_decode() result into unserialize(), and where refresh_urls() shared refresh_servers()'s bug of not narrowing db_fetch_row()/post() results before use
 
 * issue: Fix bug where the 'gzip' compression option was passed to the cURL class as a literal string instead of the expected WEBSEER_COMPRESSION_GZIP constant, silently disabling gzip compression on 12 call sites