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Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

Last modified 8 years ago

#41579 closed defect (bug) (invalid)

Post_content / meta value unable to store slashed content

Reported by: compute's profile Compute Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version:
Component: Posts, Post Types Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Hi there,

In my plugin I'm storing data from another service. This service returns regex data on how some fields are getting validated.

When saving these values to either post_content or a post meta the values are getting slashed. I could save these are options but due to it being specific to a post_type this does not make sense.

To test:

$regex = '(\b16-\d{3}\b)';
$post_id = wp_insert_post( [
	'post_title' => 'Test regex',
	'post_content' => $regex,
	'post_type' => 'post',
] );
var_dump($regex);
echo '<br>';
var_dump( get_post($post_id )->post_content );
die();

Output:

string(14) "(\b16-\d{3}\b)" 
string(11) "(b16-d{3}b)"

It seems like there is no way of skipping the current API from slashing the values with wp_unslash.

Change History (3)

#1 @ocean90
8 years ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
  • Resolution set to invalid
  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Version trunk deleted

Hello @Compute,

by default wp_insert_post() doesn't add slashes to the post data because it expects the data already to be slashed. Before the data gets stored into the database wp_unslash() is called. That's why the slashes from the regex are removed.
To solve this you have to call wp_slash() on your $regex first.

This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by compute. View the logs.


8 years ago

#3 @johnbillion
8 years ago

Follow-up: #41593

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