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Expand Up @@ -45,7 +45,54 @@ function p2_kses_init() {
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function p2_kses_init_filters() {
remove_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_filter_kses' );
add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'wp_filter_post_kses' );
add_filter( 'pre_comment_content', __NAMESPACE__ . '\\filter_comment_content' );
}

/**
* Applies the post HTML filters to comment content, then drops o2's own classes.
*
* Mirrors wp_filter_post_kses(), which is what this used to hook directly.
*
* @param string $data Slashed comment content.
* @return string Slashed comment content.
*/
function filter_comment_content( $data ) {
return addslashes( strip_o2_control_classes( wp_kses( stripslashes( $data ), 'post' ) ) );
}

/**
* Removes o2's control classes from comment HTML.
*
* These classes are how o2 binds its post actions, and the lookup that picks an
* editor to read, across the whole post article rather than to the controls it
* rendered itself. Comments live in that article and their HTML comes from the
* commenter, so it must not be able to present itself as one of those controls.
*
* @param string $html Unslashed comment HTML.
* @return string
*/
function strip_o2_control_classes( $html ) {
if ( false === stripos( $html, 'o2-' ) ) {

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cat -n "$file" | sed -n '1,125p'
printf '%s\n' '--- related symbols ---'
rg -n -C 4 'filter_comment_content|WP_HTML_Tag_Processor|class_list|stripos|wp_kses' wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/pub "$file"

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Do not skip encoded o2- control classes.

wp_kses_normalize_entities() preserves valid numeric references and normalizes - to -. Therefore, strip_o2_control_classes() does not find o2- in class="o2-reply" and returns before WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::class_list() decodes the class. Remove the fast path and always inspect parsed class names.

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In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/pub/wporg-allow-more-html-in-comments.php`
at line 75, Update strip_o2_control_classes() to remove the stripos($html,
'o2-') early-return fast path, ensuring encoded o2- control classes are still
discovered through WP_HTML_Tag_Processor::class_list() after decoding.

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return $html;
}

$tags = new \WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $html );

while ( $tags->next_tag() ) {
$remove = array();

foreach ( $tags->class_list() as $class ) {
if ( str_starts_with( strtolower( $class ), 'o2-' ) ) {
$remove[] = $class;
}
}

foreach ( $remove as $class ) {
$tags->remove_class( $class );
}
}

return $tags->get_updated_html();
}

/**
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