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excessive_parameters

Excessive Parameters — a PullGuard finding type. Findings of this type appear in the PR comment, Step Summary, SARIF (GitHub Security tab / IDE viewers), and the HTML report, each with severity, location, and the remediation guidance below.

How to fix

Group related parameters into an options object low effort

// Before: 8 positional parameters
function createUser(name, email, age, role, dept, org, phone, addr) {}

// After: options object
interface CreateUserOptions {
  name: string; email: string; age: number;
  role: string; dept: string; org: string;
  phone?: string; addr?: string;
}
function createUser(options: CreateUserOptions) {}

Triage

Suppress a confirmed non-issue with a committed .pullguardignore entry (pullguard ignore locally, or comment /pullguard ignore <fingerprint> <reason> on the PR — the fingerprint is printed in the PR comment’s Triage section). Entries support expiresAt for time-boxed snoozes.

Security findings at major or critical severity — and any critical finding — always surface: .pullguardignore cannot hide them. The reviewed paths that keep them visible are acknowledged (reviewed, stays in reports) and, for a confirmed false positive, a reasoned false_positive entry — visible and audited, excluded only from the merge block.