[wp-testers] RE: wp_kses kills <!--more--> tags from xmlrpc posted entries

[Toby Simmons]

I've updated the ticket (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2130) to include a
proposed patch (suggested in November in the forums at
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/450):

Index: wp-includes/kses.php
===================================================================
--- wp-includes/kses.php	(revision 3332)
+++ wp-includes/kses.php	(working copy)
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
 		return '>';
 	# It matched a ">" character
 
+	if (preg_match('%^<!--[^>-]+-->$%', $string))
+		return $string;
+	# Allow HTML comments
+
 	if (!preg_match('%^<\s*(/\s*)?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)([^>]*)>?$%', $string,
$matches))
 		return '';
 	# It's seriously malformed



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