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Is the backend Python and the frontend JavaScript? Because then that would happen and just be normal, because Boolean true is
Truein python.Probably, but if you're interpreting user inputs as raw code, you've got much much worse problems going on, lol.
Given the warning about capitalization, the best possible case is that they're using ast.literal_eval() rather than throwing untrusted input into
eval().Err, I guess they might be comparing strings to 'True' and are choosing to be really strict about capitalization for some reason.
Yeah. Maybe .to_lower() is really expensive in their environment, lol.