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Opened 12 months ago

Closed 12 months ago

#63988 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Regex special chars should be escaped

Reported by: johnbillion Owned by: johnbillion
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.9
Component: General Version:
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch has-unit-tests commit
Cc: Focuses:

Description

Previously for oembed providers: #38187.

Some unescaped regex special characters have slipped in to regular expressions which makes them greedier than they should be.

Change History (3)

This ticket was mentioned in ​PR #9917 on ​WordPress/wordpress-develop by ​@johnbillion.
12 months ago #1

  • Keywords has-patch has-unit-tests added; needs-patch removed

Trac ticket: Core-63988

#2 @mukesh27
12 months ago

  • Keywords commit added
  • Milestone Awaiting Review → 6.9

#3 @johnbillion
12 months ago

  • Owner set to johnbillion
  • Resolution → fixed
  • Status new → closed

In 60783:

General: Escape periods in regular expressions where the character is intended to match only a literal period.

Props westonruter, mukesh27, johnbillion

Fixes #63988

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