No upper limit restriction for number of posts set via Site Editor and the value entered by the user chang

[jomonthomaslobo1]

Description

No upper limit restriction for number of posts set via Site Editor and the value entered by the user changes

Environment

• WordPress: 6.4.2
• PHP: 7.4.33
• Server: Apache/2.4.54 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.2u PHP/7.4.33 mod_wsgi/3.5 Python/2.7.18 mod_fastcgi/mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0910052141 mod_perl/2.0.11 Perl/v5.30.1
• Database: mysqli (Server: 5.7.39 / Client: mysqlnd 7.4.33)
• Browser: Chrome 118.0.0.0 (macOS)
• Theme: Twenty Twenty-Four 1.0
• MU-Plugins: None activated
• Plugins:
  • WordPress Beta Tester 3.5.5

Steps to Reproduce

1. Goto Site Editor
2. In the No. of posts per page option give a huge number and save the changes

24. 🐞 Bug occurs.

Expected Results

1. ✅ It should show the maximum number of posts allowed per page exceeded validation message or the value added by the user

Actual Results

1. ❌ Goto Site Editor again and we can see the number changed to 9223372036854776000
2. There is no upper limit validation and the value entered by the user changed to some random values

[jomonthomaslobo1]

Random large value entered

[jomonthomaslobo1]

Value entered changed to 9223372036854776000

[rajinsharwar]

Welcome to Trac @jomonthomaslobo1! It seems that the same behavior is noticed when setting the Blog posts via Settings > Reading. Are you suggesting it to add some restriction on how many blog posts to allow? Is there any specific use case for this you might want to share?