tried something which can help out to assign scope to the page if the scope does not skip in any scope hopefully someone can enhance it a bit more

<cffunction name="findInScopes" returntype="struct">
    <cfargument name="key" type="string" required="yes">
    <cfset var scopeList = ["variables", "cgi", "url", "form", "cookie", "session", "application", "server", "client", "request"]>
    <cfset var foundScopes = {}>

    <cfloop array="#scopeList#" index="currentScope">
        <cfif structKeyExists(evaluate(currentScope), key)>
            <cfset foundScopes[currentScope] = evaluate(currentScope & "." & key)>
        </cfif>
    </cfloop>

    <cfreturn foundScopes>
</cffunction>

<cfset veed = 'red'>
<cfdump var="#findInScopes(veed)#">

I'm confused, are you trying to "undo" the implicit scope change that we made specifically to prevent a critical security vector from occurring?

I am not sure why you want to do this. ColdFusion has its own scope hierarchy. While it is a bad practice, if you don't specify the scope of a variable, ColdFusion will search for the variable in its own scope hierarchy to find the variable. So, your function is rather meaningless. Even a variable without specifying a scope only works until the next major release (you can add a jvm parameter to not enforce the specifying of a scope right now). So, when the next major version of CF is released, a variable without a scope simply won't work. So, I am not too sure what you are trying to do here.

I am not deconstructing it 🤣 Just trying to make the legacy app fixes asap This is just too much work on variables scoping at least with new cf update Which is a major fix

You know you can add a jvm parameter for now, right? This will buy you some time (until the next major release of CF) to actually add the scopes to your variables

GSR. I am going to say this as gently as I possibly can. This is not a "fix". You can continue to use the JVM argument in CF23, likely until EOF, which is years away.

@Mark Takata (Adobe) if that is the case which means that i can use the JVM argument, then its a great news, I was woriird because usually patches comes after every 2-3 weeks and i do not want myself on a burning chair