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New website is missing many security vulnerability attributions

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Description

The new website seems to have lost quite a lot of attributions for your security vulnerabilities. There were enough mistakes that I had to stop scrolling for time, but here are a few mistakes to get you started:

I stopped scrolling through after this point. I'd suggest a more thorough audit of the new website.

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the vulnerability entries linked in the issue, the referenced security advisories, and git log --grep=CVE-2021-3712. Audit the surrounding entries beyond the examples, then verify that attributions, advisory URLs, and the cited Content-Type behavior are correct across the new website.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
content, documentation
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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