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SQL Injection Alert When Opening a BIRT Report

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Question

When the BIRT Report Viewer is being loaded, the Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution might block the page due to a detected potential SQL Injection. This issue appears to be related to the contents of the server response to the POST request that opens the report viewer. Specifically, the problem seems to be linked to the paramdelimiter being defined as ||.

How can this be fixed so that BIRT Report Viewer runs without triggering SQL Injection alerts?

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Modified date:
17 September 2025

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