diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index 6d885aa1d..f0d1d424a 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ EXCLUDE_UNESCAPE = ("WAITFOR DELAY ", " INTO DUMPFILE ", " INTO OUTFILE ", "CREA
 REFLECTED_VALUE_MARKER = '__REFLECTED_VALUE__'
 
 # Regular expression used for marking non-alphanum characters
-REFLECTED_NON_ALPHA_NUM_REGEX = r'[^<>\\r\\n]+?'
+REFLECTED_NON_ALPHA_NUM_REGEX = r'\W+?'
 
 # Chars which can be used as a failsafe values in case of too long URL encoding value
 URLENCODE_FAILSAFE_CHARS = '()|,'