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Topic: Link is changed when inserted into forum

Posted By: Jagoop
Subject: Link is changed when inserted into forum
Date Posted: 15 July 2024 at 10:47am

When I insert a link to a google map, a single letter is changed from uppercase to lowercase.

I have checked that the correct link is inserted - and the correct link is show as the text for the link.

Has anyone encountered anything similar?

The changed part is the "KoN9" part of the link, that becomes "Kon9" instead (lowercase n).

Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1-q80aKNgHzhxDXP-FyTOxjBayKon9FQ&usp=sharing" rel="nofollow - https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1-q80aKNgHzhxDXP-FyTOxjBayKoN9FQ&usp=sharing

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 15 July 2024 at 11:05am

I suspect it is the XSS filters to stop XSS attacks that is making the change as 'on' is used in items such as onclick, onmouseover, onalert, and many other JavaScript commands that can be used in XSS attacks, and therefore 'on' is URL encrypted when used in a URL.

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Posted By: Jagoop
Date Posted: 15 July 2024 at 11:10am

Thank you for the answer.

I also found this older post, refering to the same issue: https://forums.webwiz.net/weird-encoding-during-save_topic31562.html" rel="nofollow - https://forums.webwiz.net/weird-encoding-during-save_topic31562.html