---
id: 8497
title: "From Detection to Validation: Fixing Broken Vulnerability Workflows"
source_domain: projectdiscovery.io
source_url: "https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/from-detection-to-validation-fixing-broken-vulnerability-workflows"
published_at: "2025-10-08T16:18:38Z"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "vulnerability-management", "false-positives", "nuclei", "projectdiscovery", "exploitability", "crushftp"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8497"
lang: en
---

# From Detection to Validation: Fixing Broken Vulnerability Workflows

## Summary

Version scanning lies by omission: only ~6% of CVEs are exploited. Nuclei validates exploitability at runtime with matchers, extractors, and multi-step flows, as the 2025 CrushFTP cases illustrate.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectdiscovery.io
- **Published:** 2025-10-08T16:18:38Z
- **Original:** https://projectdiscovery.io/blog/from-detection-to-validation-fixing-broken-vulnerability-workflows
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8497