[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52076: Checking anonymous user's exist capability returns inconsistent results across functions.

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#52076: Checking anonymous user's exist capability returns inconsistent results
across functions.
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 Reporter:  peterwilsoncc                        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.7
Component:  Role/Capability                      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  early has-patch needs-unit-tests     |     Focuses:
  needs-dev-note                                 |
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Comment (by TimothyBlynJacobs):

 Though, thinking on that more. If someone is intentionally doing
 `wp_get_current_user()->has_cap()` so that logged out users were handled.
 If we do care about that risk, I guess we could pass a flag to `has_cap`
 when called from `(current_)user_can` that would enable that stricter
 checking. But that sounds a bit ugly.

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