Changeset 60058

Timestamp:

03/19/2025 11:13:46 PM (12 months ago)

Author:

audrasjb

Message:

General: Remove noopener from links opening in a new tab in wp_list_bookmarks().

This changeset removes the automatic addition of rel="noopener" from links targeting a new tab via target="_blank" in the wp_list_bookmarks() function. Since this was introduced, supported browsers have changed their security policies and no longer allow the opened link to have JavaScript access to the previous tab. This also removes the unit test cases previously located in wpListBookmarks.php as they were dedicated to test the presence of rel="noopener".

Follow-up to [52061], [59120].

Props audrasjb, rvouill, marineevain, jeremy80.
Fixes #63096.

Location:

trunk

Files:

• src/wp-includes/bookmark-template.php (modified) (1 diff)
• tests/phpunit/tests/bookmark/wpListBookmarks.php (deleted)

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

@@ -106 +106 @@
         $target = $bookmark->link_target;
         if ( '' !== $target ) {
-            if ( is_string( $rel ) && '' !== $rel ) {
-                if ( ! str_contains( $rel, 'noopener' ) ) {
-                    $rel = trim( $rel ) . ' noopener';
-                }
-            } else {
-                $rel = 'noopener';
-            }
-
             $target = ' target="' . $target . '"';
         }