Link saving issues with insert/edit link

[vincentgustav]

Good day,

A client complained links were not saving on update/publish. After watching their odd way of adding links, I determined it was indeed a bug. I recreated this bug on a clean install of wordpress with no plugins on two hosting environments and on: chrome, firefox, safari, and edge.

This issue happens if a link is added in this manner:

step 1 - click a blank area on the WYSIWYG editor

step 2- click the insert/edit link button and select the gear from the link popup

step 3 - fill out the link URL and text in the 'link settings' modal window and then save the link

The link will appear as expected (blue and underlined), however, on update/publish the html will be stripped leaving only the text. If the text was added first, then highlighted, and the then the insert/edit link button is clicked the link will stay on publish/update of the post/page.

It is an odd way of adding a link but I thought the glitch should be made aware of.

Thanks,

V

[afercia]

Reproduced on 4.5.

[azaozz]

Thanks @vincentgustav for the bug report. I can reproduce it too, but looks like it is a duplicate of #36683.