Prevents certain functions on newly installed Redirection plugin

  • Resolved webmaster1919

    (@webmaster1919)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,
    we recently installed the Redirection plugin and it seems that when a search is performed within the redirection plugin, to find one of the redirection entries, the search fails and returns a “cannot fetch” error, which on browser inspection shows possible CORS issue.
    We tried all the other possibilities, ie disabling WordFence and other plugins, but the only solution which eliminates the problem, is to disable XSS plugin or untick the “blocking” option, within the XSS plugin.
    Is this something you can help with please?
    Thanks

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  • Hey @webmaster1919 – I know this is a late response, but I was experiencing the same problem and got to the bottom of the issue so hopefully this helps someone. My site was having the Redirection “Error: Failed to fetch” issue, despite all of the REST API tests showing that everything was okay. The problem ended up being an issue with how Redirection’s URLs are structured, and what the Prevent XSS Vulnerability plugin actually does.

    Redirection’s query URL looks like this:

    yoursite.com/wp-admin/tools.php?page=redirection.php&filterby[url]=test

    The brackets may be encoded as %5B and %5D, but the effect is the same. The Prevent XSS Vulnerability plugin blocks URLs with brackets by default. If you go to your XSS plugin settings page, you can add the following to the “Exclude pre-defined Entities from being blocked” field:

    [,]

    This will now allow URLs to have brackets in them, and Redirection should go back to working properly.

    Plugin Author Sami Ahmed Siddiqui

    (@sasiddiqui)

    @webmaster1919 Please check the @brrto solution, It should work for you.

    @brrto Thank you for providing the solution, Much appreciated!

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