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Latest revision as of 11:28, 28 January 2013

Rule 300282
Status	Active
Alert Message	Atomicorp.com WAF AntiSpam Rules: Possible Spam: Broken URL posting type - possible spam

Contents 1 Description 2 Troubleshooting 2.1 False Positives 2.2 Tuning Guidance 3 Additional Information 3.1 Similar Rules 3.2 Knowledge Base Articles 3.3 Outside References 3.4 Notes

[edit] Description

This rules detects when a post is made using broken forum, CMS or other user generated URL formats. For example this format:

[url=http://www.example.com]some link[/url]

Is commonly used by many forum and CMS tools. Some spam tools will attempt to post spam urls to a site, but will post broken urls, for example not closing the url, or injecting multiple url= url= variables in a row.

[edit] Troubleshooting

[edit] False Positives

None.

[edit] Tuning Guidance

See the Mod_security page for guidance on tuning this rule.

[edit] Additional Information

[edit] Similar Rules

None.

[edit] Knowledge Base Articles

None.

[edit] Outside References

None.

[edit] Notes

None.