Editing with Quick Edit changes author when logged in as author role or lower

[lancewillett]

I saw an odd behavior in the Quick Edit menu when logged in as Author or lower role.

What I did:
Logged in as an Author user, opened up Edit Posts, and used the "Quick Edit" link to add a tag to a post. (The post was written by an adminstrator-level user.)

What I expected to happen:
Save the tag data only -- I expected the rest of the fields to remain as they were, including the original post author.

What actually happened:
The post author was changed to my user (the logged in Author user) instead of the original post author.

Possibly related?

• #10967
• #10628

This is a major issue if WP is allowing authors to take ownership of posts.

lancewillett, under what circumstance is WP showing the Quick Edit interface to authors on posts they do not already own? I've never seen that happen.

As an author or below, you can only edit your own posts, and that includes via Quick Edit.

Thanks for the feedback. I did more testing and confirmed that as an author or lower I am not able to edit posts (including Quick Edit) using latest trunk with r14075.

I tracked this down to a bug in WordPress MU: ​http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/1093 -- so was never a bug in core WordPress. Sorry for the confusion -- I'm closing the ticket.

Also noting the MU ticket is closed:fixed at 2.9. Thanks for the link.

The same bug appears when an Admin does the QuickEdit. Now the original author is replaced with the Admin username.