id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
16101	Numeric term fields are strings	foofy		"The numeric fields (term_id, parent, etc.) on term objects are strings. I only noticed this because term_exists() uses is_int() to determine if the $term value is an ID or slug.

Only ticket I could find about this is #5381. 

sanitize_term() should fix this, but it bails early in the ""raw"" context. sanitize_term_field() sanitizes the numeric fields in every context. I don't see a reason for sanitize_term() to bail early so I made a patch that takes that out. The patch also adds some missing fields to the list of those to be sanitized and changes term_exists() to use is_numeric() (which will correctly identify strings containing only numbers) instead of is_int(). 

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