Displayed Reviews Does Not Recognize Slash Characters

  • sethhay

    (@sethhay)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    I notice while testing that when I submit a review, in the pending and approved reviews in my dashboard recognize my forward & back slash characters “/” “\” but when I display the review on a live site, it is being stripped out and not showing. Why would it do this? I am using general font-family Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif for my text.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-reviews/

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  • Plugin Contributor Nuanced Media

    (@nuanced-media)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi sethhay,

    Stripping slashes from reviews is a requirement for the plugin. Since we store reviews in your database, we must sanitize input as much as possible in order to prevent malicious code being inputed. For example, if you don’t sanitize the input then we (and anyone visiting your site) could manipulate your database and even delete your entire database through the reviews form.

    That being said, when the plugin was first written we were perhaps a little overzealous in our sanitization of input and output. It is something that we must, and will, address in a forthcoming update.

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