Changeset 53958

Timestamp:

08/30/2022 03:13:46 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

SergeyBiryukov

Message:

Posts, Post Types: Escape output within the_meta().

Convert markup to entities when displaying on the front end. Deprecates the_meta() in favor of get_post_meta().

Props tykoted, martinkrcho, xknown, dd32, peterwilsoncc, paulkevan, timothyblynjacobs.

File:

• trunk/src/wp-includes/post-template.php (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/wp-includes/post-template.php

@@ -1091 +1091 @@
  * @since 1.2.0
  *
- * @internal This will probably change at some point...
+ * @deprecated 6.0.2 Use get_post_meta() to retrieve post meta and render manually.
  */
 function the_meta() {
+    _deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '6.0.2', 'get_post_meta()' );
     $keys = get_post_custom_keys();
     if ( $keys ) {
@@ -1109 +1110 @@
                 "<li><span class='post-meta-key'>%s</span> %s</li>\n",
                 /* translators: %s: Post custom field name. */
-                sprintf( _x( '%s:', 'Post custom field name' ), $key ),
-                $value
+                esc_html( sprintf( _x( '%s:', 'Post custom field name' ), $key ) ),
+                esc_html( $value )
             );