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by mpalfrey 1209 days ago
I wonder what is actually causing the error here. Looking at the 2 payloads diff on the site I can't spot anything. It's a weird one that's for sure.
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Something real subtle probably, like enough of the redacted areas accidentally containing something like looks like SQL. Like WALTER contains ALTER, CASEY contains CASE, etc...enough to add up the score to fail.

Hopefully more convoluted than simple substring matches like that, but I've seen WAFS do that. If it is adding up substring matches, there is stuff like "subscription_update", "null", "created", "discountable", "total_count", etc, that would set a high floor.