WAF 300282

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

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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.


Troubleshooting

False Positives

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Tuning Guidance

See the Mod_security page for guidance on tuning this rule.

Additional Information

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