diff --git a/lib/core/common.py b/lib/core/common.py
index c9b3d887b..ed71fe843 100644
--- a/lib/core/common.py
+++ b/lib/core/common.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ from lib.core.settings import INVALID_UNICODE_CHAR_FORMAT
 from lib.core.settings import ISSUES_PAGE
 from lib.core.settings import IS_WIN
 from lib.core.settings import LARGE_OUTPUT_THRESHOLD
+from lib.core.settings import MIN_ENCODED_LEN_CHECK
 from lib.core.settings import MIN_TIME_RESPONSES
 from lib.core.settings import ML
 from lib.core.settings import NULL
@@ -570,7 +571,7 @@ def paramToDict(place, parameters=None):
                 for encoding in ("hex", "base64"):
                     try:
                         decoded = value.decode(encoding)
-                        if all(_ in string.printable for _ in decoded):
+                        if len(decoded) > MIN_ENCODED_LEN_CHECK and all(_ in string.printable for _ in decoded):
                             warnMsg = "provided parameter '%s' " % parameter
                             warnMsg += "seems to be '%s' encoded" % encoding
                             logger.warn(warnMsg)
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index e6c075e6e..a5a8f5d4a 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -506,6 +506,9 @@ MIN_BINARY_DISK_DUMP_SIZE = 100
 # Regular expression used for extracting form tags
 FORM_SEARCH_REGEX = r"(?si)<form(?!.+<form).+?</form>"
 
+# Minimum field entry length needed for encoded content (hex, base64,...) check
+MIN_ENCODED_LEN_CHECK = 5
+
 # CSS style used in HTML dump format
 HTML_DUMP_CSS_STYLE = """<style>
 table{