#44154 closed defect (bug) (invalid)
saving backslash backslash into user_meta does not round-trip
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | critical | Version: | 4.9.5 |
Component: | General | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
This code:
$user_id = get_current_user_id(); $input = 'double ' .chr(92) . chr(92) . ' slashes'; update_user_meta($user_id, 'update_meta_bug', $input); $output = get_user_meta($user_id, 'update_meta_bug', true); if ( $output != $input ) { echo '<b>$output != $input</b>'; }
Produces this output:
$output != $input
Change History (2)
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Thanks for the report, @ericscheid . The meta functions expect slashed data. Yes this is nasty, but that's the unfortunate position we're in. You can pass the value through
wp_slash()
before passing it into this function.This is not very well documented. See #41593.