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

[miqrogroove]

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

[miqrogroove]

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.

[nacin]

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

[lancewillett]

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.

[miqrogroove]

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

[skcsknathan001]

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