diff --git a/internal/scan/frameworks/cve_internal_test.go b/internal/scan/frameworks/cve_internal_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a5d896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/scan/frameworks/cve_internal_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+:                                                                               :
+:   █▀ █ █▀▀   ·   Blazing-fast pentesting suite                                :
+:   ▄█ █ █▀    ·   BSD 3-Clause License                                         :
+:                                                                               :
+:   (c) 2022-2026 vmfunc, xyzeva,                                               :
+:                 lunchcat alumni & contributors                                :
+:                                                                               :
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+*/
+
+package frameworks
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestVersionAffected(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		version  string
+		affected string
+		want     bool
+	}{
+		{"4.2", "4.2", true},
+		{"4.2.1", "4.2", true},
+		{"4.2.13", "4.2", true},
+		{"4.20", "4.2", false},   // the boundary bug: 4.20 is not a 4.2.x release
+		{"4.20.0", "4.2", false},
+		{"5.0", "4.2", false},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		if got := versionAffected(tt.version, tt.affected); got != tt.want {
+			t.Errorf("versionAffected(%q, %q) = %v, want %v", tt.version, tt.affected, got, tt.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/scan/frameworks/detect.go b/internal/scan/frameworks/detect.go
index 072333d..2ae683a 100644
--- a/internal/scan/frameworks/detect.go
+++ b/internal/scan/frameworks/detect.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -99,9 +100,11 @@ func DetectFramework(url string, timeout time.Duration, logdir string) (*Framewo
 	}()
 
 	// Find the best match
+	// results arrive in goroutine-completion order; tie-break on name so the
+	// winner is deterministic when two detectors land on the same confidence.
 	var best detectionResult
 	for r := range results {
-		if r.confidence > best.confidence {
+		if r.confidence > best.confidence || (r.confidence == best.confidence && r.name < best.name) {
 			best = r
 		}
 	}
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ func getVulnerabilities(framework, version string) ([]string, []string) {
 
 	for _, entry := range entries {
 		for _, affectedVer := range entry.AffectedVersions {
-			if version == affectedVer || hasPrefix(version, affectedVer) {
+			if versionAffected(version, affectedVer) {
 				cves = append(cves, fmt.Sprintf("%s (%s)", entry.CVE, entry.Severity))
 				for _, rec := range entry.Recommendations {
 					if !seenRecs[rec] {
@@ -185,7 +188,9 @@ func getVulnerabilities(framework, version string) ([]string, []string) {
 	return cves, recommendations
 }
 
-// hasPrefix is a simple prefix check without importing strings.
-func hasPrefix(s, prefix string) bool {
-	return len(s) >= len(prefix) && s[:len(prefix)] == prefix
+// versionAffected reports whether version falls under an affected-version
+// entry. the entry is a version prefix, matched only on dotted boundaries, so
+// "4.2" covers 4.2 and 4.2.1 but not 4.20.
+func versionAffected(version, affected string) bool {
+	return version == affected || strings.HasPrefix(version, affected+".")
 }
diff --git a/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/backend.go b/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/backend.go
index 16e5b62..4b324ae 100644
--- a/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/backend.go
+++ b/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/backend.go
@@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ func init() {
 	fw.Register(&codeigniterDetector{})
 }
 
-// sigmoidConfidence converts a weighted score to a 0-1 confidence value.
+// sigmoidConfidence maps the matched-weight fraction to a 0-1 confidence,
+// centered at 0.3 so a single weak signature match no longer clears the 0.5
+// detection threshold (it used to: sigmoid(0) was 0.5, so any match "detected").
 func sigmoidConfidence(score float32) float32 {
-	return float32(1.0 / (1.0 + math.Exp(-float64(score)*6.0)))
+	return float32(1.0 / (1.0 + math.Exp(-(float64(score)-0.3)*10.0)))
 }
 
 // laravelDetector detects Laravel framework.
diff --git a/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/confidence_test.go b/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/confidence_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d9bf209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/scan/frameworks/detectors/confidence_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+:                                                                               :
+:   █▀ █ █▀▀   ·   Blazing-fast pentesting suite                                :
+:   ▄█ █ █▀    ·   BSD 3-Clause License                                         :
+:                                                                               :
+:   (c) 2022-2026 vmfunc, xyzeva,                                               :
+:                 lunchcat alumni & contributors                                :
+:                                                                               :
+·━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━·
+*/
+
+package detectors
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestSigmoidConfidence(t *testing.T) {
+	// a weak match (small matched-weight fraction) must stay below the 0.5
+	// detection threshold; a strong match must clear it. the old curve put any
+	// match above 0.5, which is what false-detected magento on a plain page.
+	if c := sigmoidConfidence(0); c >= 0.5 {
+		t.Errorf("no match conf = %.3f, want < 0.5", c)
+	}
+	if c := sigmoidConfidence(0.2); c >= 0.5 {
+		t.Errorf("weak match conf = %.3f, want < 0.5", c)
+	}
+	if c := sigmoidConfidence(0.5); c <= 0.5 {
+		t.Errorf("strong match conf = %.3f, want > 0.5", c)
+	}
+}