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by svisser 3520 days ago
This can detect when a CVE vulnerability is fixed but how would you know the version number at which it was introduced?
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Most CVEs have a pretty good descriptions. For example CVE-2016-6186[1]:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the dismissChangeRelatedObjectPopup function in contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js in Django before 1.8.14, 1.9.x before 1.9.8, and 1.10.x before 1.10rc1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving unsafe usage of Element.innerHTML.

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-6186/