Ticket #42040: wp-db.diff

wp-includes/wp-db.php

@@ -1252 +1252 @@
                 $query = preg_replace( '|(?<!%)%s|', "'%s'", $query ); // quote the strings, avoiding escaped strings like %%s
                 $query = preg_replace( '/%(?:%|$|([^dsF]))/', '%%\\1', $query ); // escape any unescaped percents 
                 array_walk( $args, array( $this, 'escape_by_ref' ) );
+
+                /**
+                * Patch to find number of convertible patterns in the query and match it to the arguments count
+                * Throw a notice if there is a mismatch in the number of covertible patterns to the argument count passed in
+                * I recommend exception over notice but keeping backward compatibility in mind, i have used notice.             
+                */
+
+                preg_match_all('/%(%|s|d|F)/', $query, $patterns, PREG_SET_ORDER, 0);  // search for %% %s %d %F  in the string
+                $convertible_pattern_count = 0;
+
+                foreach ( $patterns as $pattern ) {
+                        if ( $pattern[0][0] != "%%" ) {   // as %% is a escape pattern, ignore %% form the list of convertible pattern
+                                $convertible_pattern_count++;
+                        }
+                }
+
+                if ( count( $args ) != $convertible_pattern_count ) {
+                        _doing_it_wrong(
+                                'wpdb::prepare',
+                                sprintf('Number of argument passed is incorrect. Requires %d arguments, but %d arguments is passed', $convertible_pattern_count, count($args)),
+                                '4.8.2' //version needs to be updated accordingly
+                        );
+                }
+
                 return @vsprintf( $query, $args );
         }