WAF 300079

Rule ID

300079

Status

Active rule currently published.

Alert Message

"Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Possible Spam: Multiple embedded urls in argument (Disable if you wish to allow 4 or more URLs in a post)

Description

This rule detects the use of four or more URLs in a single post. This rule is part of the anti spam rule family, and is a simple method of detecting possible URL spamming.

If you wish to allow this, then disable this rule.

False Positives

The rule is very simple, and only detects four or more urls, it does not make any determination if these are spam urls or non-malicious urls. If you wish to allow the posting of four or more URLs, please disable this rule.

If this has occurred for an administrator only function, please report this as a false positive.

Tuning Guidance

If you know that this behavior is acceptable for your application, please see the Tuning the Atomicorp WAF Rules page for basic information.

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