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The name and the author headers are one-line style.css values an uploader types, not body content, so they
are stored the way the description already was.

Testing steps

  1. Upload a theme whose style.css carries bracketed text in Theme Name:, Author:, Theme URI: or
    Author URI: — e.g. Theme Name: Fixture [caption width="1" caption="x"]y[/caption] Theme.
  2. The drafted repopackage stores the remaining text; the theme page, the author archive and the themes API
    all read the same.
  3. npm run themes:test from environments/
    → 105 tests, 179 assertions. The pre-existing Search_Published_Filter_Test risky-test notice is unrelated.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Theme metadata is now stored as plain text, preventing shortcodes in titles, URLs, author names, and author URLs from being executed or retained.
    • Theme names, descriptions, and author details are handled consistently when they contain shortcode markup.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying that shortcode-bearing theme headers are safely stored without executable shortcode content.
    • Added validation for theme names, descriptions, URLs, and author information during storage.

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Theme upload storage now strips shortcodes from theme titles and selected metadata. New PHPUnit coverage creates a shortcode-bearing temporary theme and verifies sanitized stored values.

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Theme Header Sanitization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sanitize theme headers before storage
wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/class-wporg-themes-upload.php
The upload flow applies strip_shortcodes() to the theme title, theme URL, author name, and author URL before storage.
Validate sanitized header storage
wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/tests/Theme_Header_Storage_Test.php
Tests create a temporary theme with shortcode-bearing headers and verify sanitized title, description, author, theme URL, and author URL values. Cleanup removes temporary posts and files.

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Theme header sanitization may still retain currently unregistered shortcode-like text in stored metadata, which could later execute when displayed if that shortcode becomes available. This should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

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In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/class-wporg-themes-upload.php`:
- Line 1532: Update the header title sanitization in the theme upload flow
around get('Name') so all shortcode-shaped input is neutralized before storage,
including unregistered tags that may be registered later; replace
strip_shortcodes() with the project’s all-shortcode sanitizer and add a
regression test covering a tag registered after storage.

In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/tests/Theme_Header_Storage_Test.php`:
- Line 143: Remove the `$upload->theme_post = null` assignment from the test
setup; rely on the uninitialized initial state handled by
`create_or_update_theme_post()` for new submissions, preserving the declared
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'post_title' => $this->theme->get( 'Name' ),
// The name and the description are one-line headers, not body content to run
// through the shortcode chain.
'post_title' => strip_shortcodes( $this->theme->get( 'Name' ) ),

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

core_file="$(fd -t f '^shortcodes\.php$' . | head -n 1)"
test -n "$core_file"

# Verify the repository WordPress implementation selects shortcode names from
# the registered shortcode-tag collection at processing time.
rg -n -A45 -B3 'function strip_shortcodes\s*\(' "$core_file"

Repository: WordPress/wordpress.org

Length of output: 161


🏁 Script executed:

set -euo pipefail
file="wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/class-wporg-themes-upload.php"
sed -n '1500,1570p' "$file"
printf '\nShortcode call sites in the upload class:\n'
rg -n -C 3 'strip_shortcodes|do_shortcode|shortcode' "$file"
printf '\nRepository shortcode implementations or bundled references:\n'
rg -n -g '*.php' 'function\s+strip_shortcodes\s*\(' . | head -20

Repository: WordPress/wordpress.org

Length of output: 3834


🏁 Script executed:

set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' 'WordPress version/configuration references:'
rg -n -g '*.php' -g '*.md' -g '*.txt' -g '*.json' 'wp_version|WordPress [0-9]+\.[0-9]+|Requires at least|strip_shortcodes' . | head -80
printf '\nTheme fields and post-meta consumers:\n'
rg -n -C 4 "_theme_url|_author_url|_author\b|post_title|post_content" wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory -g '*.php' | head -240

Repository: WordPress/wordpress.org

Length of output: 46621


🏁 Script executed:

set -euo pipefail
test_file="wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/tests/Theme_Header_Storage_Test.php"
sed -n '1,215p' "$test_file"
printf '\nUpload entry points and update paths:\n'
rg -n -C 5 'create_or_update_theme_post|wp_update_post|Theme_Header_Storage|register_shortcode|add_shortcode' wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory -g '*.php'

Repository: WordPress/wordpress.org

Length of output: 22426


🌐 Web query:

WordPress developer reference strip_shortcodes registered shortcode tags implementation

💡 Result:

The strip_shortcodes function in WordPress is designed to remove shortcode tags from a given content string [1][2]. A critical implementation detail is that it only removes shortcodes that are currently registered in the global $shortcode_tags array [1][3][2]. If a shortcode is present in the content but is not registered (for example, if the plugin providing it is deactivated), strip_shortcodes will not remove it [2]. Key implementation mechanics include: 1. Global Check: The function accesses the global $shortcode_tags array to determine which shortcode tags are currently known to WordPress [1][3]. 2. Performance Optimization: It first checks if the content contains a '[' character [1]. If not, or if $shortcode_tags is empty, it returns the content immediately without processing [1][3]. 3. Filtering: It uses the strip_shortcodes_tagnames filter, which allows developers to programmatically modify the list of tags intended for removal before the regex processing occurs [1][3]. 4. Regex Matching: It identifies potential shortcodes in the content using a regular expression pattern generated by get_shortcode_regex [1][3]. This ensures that only patterns matching the structure of registered shortcodes are targeted [2]. 5. Stripping: It uses preg_replace_callback with the strip_shortcode_tag function to remove the matched tags while preserving non-shortcode text [1][3]. 6. Safety: The function performs steps to unescape invalid shortcodes and handle shortcodes within HTML tags to prevent breaking markup (e.g., conditional comments) [1][3]. Because this function relies on the active state of shortcode registrations, it is common practice in some scenarios to manually register "dummy" shortcodes if you need to strip them from content when the original plugin is no longer active [2].

Citations:


Sanitize all shortcode-shaped header text before storage.

strip_shortcodes() removes only currently registered shortcode tags. An unregistered value such as [future_tag]text[/future_tag] remains stored and can be processed by a later do_shortcode() call if future_tag is registered. Use a sanitizer that neutralizes all shortcode-shaped header input, and add a regression test for a tag registered after storage.

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In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/theme-directory/class-wporg-themes-upload.php`
at line 1532, Update the header title sanitization in the theme upload flow
around get('Name') so all shortcode-shaped input is neutralized before storage,
including unregistered tags that may be registered later; replace
strip_shortcodes() with the project’s all-shortcode sanitizer and add a
regression test covering a tag registered after storage.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0189WVqActbjvT5CGUwE9tdn
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Thanks for the changes, code looks good and tests well.

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