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Invalid Regex in Formbricks Could Crash Live Surveys

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A bug in open-source survey platform Formbricks allowed invalid regex patterns to be saved, causing runtime crashes when users submitted responses. The validation schema only checked for non-empty strings, not valid regex syntax. A contributor fixed it by adding a try-catch to test patterns before saving.

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The bug is a classic input-validation oversight, but its impact—silent crashes during live surveys—underscores why open-source projects need rigorous testing of user-supplied patterns.
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