Media Library Search Includes Extra URL Parameters Added After Search

[danielhudson]

After using the media library search and the url parameter is set, if an additional parameter is set it doesn't parse just the "search" parameter and instead includes everything after "search=" ignoring any additional "&" and treating it like a string.

I would expect this to pick out just the search parameter to ensure the current search is persisted.

Rather than relying on the backbone route selected the search url parameter and passed that as the query

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/65806

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[westonruter]

Thanks for the ticket and PR!

Could you share more information about how to reproduce this? Specific testing steps would be very helpful.

[danielhudson]

I found it while using the 'user-switching' plugin, when swapping back to my user after searching but it can be reproduced just by doing a search in the media section and manually appending an additional url parameter on it. While it normally wouldn't happen it's possible a user could end up with an additional url parameter and lose their search ​https://cleanshot.com/share/Z1lc3Chn