Liquids placed from a bucket can be placed farther than blocks can be placed (This doesn't affect powdered snow and does not work in creative.)
To reproduce this bug you can:
1). Give yourself a water or lava bucket and a normal block.
2). Put the water in your off-hand and the block in your main-hand
3). Switch game mode to creative mode and look at a block just barely outside of the range of the block selected outline.
The water will be placed even though it is in your off-hand and you are outside of your placing reach.
note: This bug seems to work in older versions as well(as old as at least 1.18
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We're actually already tracking this issue in MC-260889, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
That ticket has already been resolved as Fixed. The fix for this issue will be included in a future release of the game.
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