Giving it a wild guess: It might be the plugin Legacy Urls causing this (see https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/pull/8498/commits/0c7687acdf1f92066af0fc9cb32673e8da0f8859)
But deactivating it does not help anything so far.
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