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The rapid expansion of blockchain technology and decentralized finance (DeFi) has significantly increased the adoption of smart contracts, particularly on platforms such as Ethereum. Smart contracts are autonomous, self-executing programs deployed on blockchain networks to enforce agreements without intermediaries. Despite their advantages in transparency and automation, vulnerabilities in smart contract code can lead to severe financial losses and system compromises. Historical security incidents, including the The DAO exploit, demonstrate the critical importance of proactive security auditing before deployment. The Smart Contract Vulnerability Auditor is an automated analysis framework designed to detect and mitigate security flaws in blockchain-based smart contracts. The system employs static code analysis, dynamic testing, and pattern-based vulnerability detection techniques to identify common threats such as reentrancy attacks, integer overflow and underflow, access control misconfigurations, unchecked external calls, gas inefficiencies, and timestamp dependencies. By integrating with popular development environments and blockchain testing frameworks, the tool enables real-time vulnerability assessment during the development lifecycle The proposed solution generates detailed audit reports that categorize vulnerabilities based on severity levels and provide remediation suggestions aligned with secure coding standards. This approach reduces reliance on time-consuming manual audits, minimizes human error, and enhances overall contract reliability. Additionally, the system supports scalability to audit multiple contracts efficiently and can be extended to support other blockchain platforms. Overall, the Smart Contract Vulnerability Auditor strengthens decentralized application security by providing an efficient, reliable, and automated auditing mechanism for secure smart contract deployment.