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Spam blacklist can be evaded by adding underscore to URL
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Description

Author: silsor

Description:
The spam blacklist extension will not match URLs which contain underscores. For
example, if a line in a blacklist file is:

fiberia\.com

then [http://drugspam.fiberia.com/] will be blocked but
[http://drug_spam.fiberia.com/] will be ignored.


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Silsor/sandbox&diff=28091735&oldid=25926573

Details

Reference
bz3934

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:53 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz3934.
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beesley wrote:

Reopening since it isn't resolved for non-Wikimedia sites using this extension.
Adding every underscored URL to a separate regex rather than allowing all wiki
admins to add them isn't a solution.

Reclosing since the objection is incorrect. Update your copy of the extension
and you'll have the updated regex.