[wp-testers] Single quotes in user_login gives MySQL errors

Matt Mullenweg m at mullenweg.com
Thu Jan 5 19:36:09 GMT 2006


Jamie Talbot wrote:
> Having a single quote in a user_login, in my case "Jamie's Keitai",
> breaks the MySQL query in get_userdatabylogin() in the latest changeset.
>  Adding slashes to sanitize_user() seems to work to fix that.  Will this
> break anything else?

I thought we were sanitizing usernames to be pretty tame and not allow 
junk like apostrophes and spaces?

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