[wp-hackers] Wordpress seems to serialize image_meta of a featured image incorrectly

[Justas Butkus]

Actually just the first case is correct, where length is set to 7 bytes, 
because copyright symbol (©) takes up two bytes.
While it's encoded in HTML as "©" it's not necessarily copyright 
symbol at 169th position in ASCII table (what `chr` returns).

So second encoding is incorrect and if you try to paste it into some PHP 
console you may randomly get an error "PHP Notice: unserialize(): Error 
at offset 11 of 14 bytes" in some cases, while first example should 
unserialize without any errors.


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Regards,
Justas


2014.03.08 02:52, Jeff Tchang rašė:
> Noticing some odd behavior when I upload an image with meta information.
> One of the fields has "© 2013".
>
> When it is serialized to the database I see:
>
> s:7:"© 2013";
>
> When I do this in vanilla php:
>
> $a = chr(169) . " 2013";
> echo serialize($a);
>
> I get
>
> s:6:"© 2013";
>
> which seems like the correct serialization. Has anyone run into this before?