using custom fields interjects back-slash?

[Lilith70]

When I use custom fields (latest_home_image and thumb_home_image) to format and display images from the Flickr account, back-slashes \ are interjected in front of every quotation mark, rendering the code useless unless edited by hand. Luckily, this does work using the Update button, but it's not exactly convenient.

[The_Tim]

I can confirm experiencing this problem with all versions since 2.6.

To recreate, type any value in a new custom field that includes single or double-quotes (' or "). When it is saved, it will be saved with a preceding backslash

' becomes \'
" becomes \"

It's pretty annoying, and only just began with version 2.6.

[AaronCampbell]

I'll try to take a look at this when I get time. If it's a bug, it would be nice to have a patch before 2.7 is put into freeze.

[jamescollins]

I can confirm that this bug occurs in WP 2.6.2.

When adding a custom field to a post, if the field's value contains an apostrophe or quotation mark (' or "), slashes are added to the wp_postmeta record.

There must be an extra addslashes() call somewhere before the INSERT statement.

Updating an existing custom field's value does not add extra slashes.

[DD32]

Duplicate: #7768 (Yes, This ticket is older, however theres a patch on the other one)

[jamescollins]

Patch for WP 2.6.2 (revision 8852)

[jamescollins]

Oops, never mind. Didn't notice the other ticket with an already existing patch.

DD32, your patch looks better than mine.