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XSS filter false positive

Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 10:11 pm
by barbaz
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.

Re: XSS filter false positive

Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 2:24 pm
by barbaz
bump

Re: XSS filter false positive

Posted: Fri May 28, 2021 2:32 pm
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.