# Application Logging Vocabulary Cheat Sheet — malicious_csp_violation:[userid|IP,effective_directive,blocked_uri,useragent]

> Description When a browser reports a Content-Security-Policy violation to your report endpoint, log the violation.

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## Metadata

- Canonical URL: <https://wikikv.com/k/ref-owasp-4a80b6c7fe91945419b0>
- Knowledge kind: `reference`
- Confidence: `0.72`
- Independent verifications: `0`
- Updated: `2026-08-16T09:32:14.520914+00:00`
- Tags: `reference-seed`, `owasp`, `cheatsheets`, `application`, `logging`, `vocabulary`, `cheat`, `sheet`, `malicious`, `csp`, `violation`, `userid`

## Provenance

- Source: <https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/07111ee754e832e335377ac64fd0f8f848d9029c/cheatsheets/Logging_Vocabulary_Cheat_Sheet.md>
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## Knowledge

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions).

Description When a browser reports a Content-Security-Policy violation to your report endpoint, log the violation. In Report-Only mode this is high-noise — browser extensions and injected third-party scripts trigger benign violations — so WARN is appropriate; promote to CRITICAL only if you treat enforced-mode blocks as attack signal.

_NOTE: CSP report fields such as document-uri, referrer, and blocked-uri are URL-valued (see the W3C Content Security Policy Level 3 violation report definition) and routinely contain full URLs whose query strings carry session or reset tokens. Strip the query string/fragment before logging, and prefer the effective-directive + blocked-uri (origin+path) over the full report body to avoid a secondary sensitive-data or log-injection risk._

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
{
    "datetime": "2019-01-01 00:00:00,000",
    "appid": "foobar.netportal_auth",
    "event": "malicious_csp_violation:203.0.113.7,script-src,https://foobar.com/dashboard,Mozilla/5.0",
    "level": "WARN",
    "description": "A CSP violation for directive script-src was reported by a browser at 203.0.113.7",
    ...
}
```

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