XSS filter false positive

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barbaz
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XSS filter false positive

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Doing a DuckDuckGo search from the FF search bar for (content warning)

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Doddy Gatz - Malicious Mackin' (Feat. BAKER) (Prod. Genshin)
... produces this XSS warning -

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NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack

from [...] to https://duckduckgo.com.

Suspicious data:

(URL) https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=Doddy+Gatz+-+Malicious+Mackin'+(Feat.+BAKER)+(Prod.+Genshin)&ia=web
But there's no XSS there.
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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barbaz
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Re: XSS filter false positive

Post by barbaz »

bump
*Always* check the changelogs BEFORE updating that important software!
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Giorgio Maone
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Re: XSS filter false positive

Post by Giorgio Maone »

It's the

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(Feat. BAKER) (Prod. Genshin)
following a potential string break

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Mackin'
looking like a suspicious syntactically valid JavaScript fragment.
Not sure what to do to lower sensitivity here, will think about it.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0
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