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Code display issues with HTML fragments after upgrade Pega 7.1.8
SA-16215
Summary
After upgrading to 7.1.8 form 7.1.5, extra tags were added to correspondence with conditions with pega when tags.
Error Messages
Not Applicable
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a correspondence with greater than or less than symbol
2. Try to save the correspondence, it was saved successfully, also observed that > symbol was encoded as >
3. Again click save button, then its throwing exception.
Root Cause
A software use or operation error :
Character encoding '<' is changed to < as these symbols are already used to delimit markup, It can also open up security vulnerabilities for injection attacks such as cross-site scripting.
Resolution
Perform the following local-change:
Replacing the condition with when rule.
Published January 31, 2016 - Updated October 8, 2020
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