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## Editing advisories in the GitHub Advisory Database

1. Navigate to https://github.com/advisories.
2. Select the security advisory you would like to contribute to.
3. On the right-hand side of the page, click the **Suggest improvements for this vulnerability** link.
![Suggest improvements link](/assets/images/help/security/suggest-improvements-to-advisory.png)
4. In the contribution form, make the desired improvements. You can edit or add any detail.
5. When you finish editing the advisory, click **Submit improvements**.
6. Once you submit your improvements, a pull request containing your changes will be created for review in [github/advisory-database](https://github.com/github/advisory-database) by the {% data variables.product.prodname_security %} curation team. If the advisory originated from a {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} repository, we will also tag the original publisher for optional commentary. You can view the pull request and get notifications when it is updated or closed.
1. Select the security advisory you would like to contribute to.
1. On the right-hand side of the page, click the **Suggest improvements for this vulnerability** link.

![Screenshot of the suggest improvements link](/assets/images/help/security/suggest-improvements-to-advisory.png)

1. In the contribution form, make the desired improvements. You can edit or add any detail.{% ifversion security-advisories-reason-for-change %}
1. Under **Reason for change**, explain why you want to make this improvement. If you include links to supporting material this will help our reviewers.

![Screenshot of the reason for change field](/assets/images/help/security/security-advisories-suggest-improvement-reason.png){% endif %}

1. When you finish editing the advisory, click **Submit improvements**.
1. Once you submit your improvements, a pull request containing your changes will be created for review in [github/advisory-database](https://github.com/github/advisory-database) by the {% data variables.product.prodname_security %} curation team. If the advisory originated from a {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} repository, we will also tag the original publisher for optional commentary. You can view the pull request and get notifications when it is updated or closed.

You can also open a pull request directly on an advisory file in the [github/advisory-database](https://github.com/github/advisory-database) repository. For more information, see the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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# Reference: #7792
# Documentation for incremental improvements to community contributions
versions:
fpt: '*'
ghec: '*'
ghes: '>=3.8'
ghae: 'issue-7792'

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