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New WAF bypass method take advantage of comment anti-evasion

By Ofer Shezaf - Posted on November 3rd, 2009

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A new blog post by Dmitry Evteev shows how an obscure MySQL syntax can be used to bypass ModSecurity signatures. The interesting thing is that the new technique actually takes advantage of a ModSecurity anti-evasion measure.

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