Redirect to url with query string does not encode the input from shortcode

[ghost]

• I have searched for similar issues in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
• The issue still exists against the latest stable version of Elementor.

Description

I use a simple form with an input field and a button. The text input has a field id and in the redirect settings of the form I target a different site with a query string from this specific field id: "mydomain.de/kontakt?queryId=[field id="myId"]".
I noticed that the string from the field id is not encoded, producing urls like this: "mydomain.de/kontakt?queryId=just an example".

A guide from the Elementor page (https://docs.elementor.com/article/451-dynamic-request-parameter) shows in the gif at the bottom of the page a similar behaviour.
In my opinion, the query string should be encoded in order to use special characters etc.

Steps to reproduce

• Build a form with text input and button
• Give the text input an id and copy the shortcode with the [ ] brackets
• Add "Redirect" to the actions after form submit
• Specify a Redirect Url with query params like this: "mydomain.de?queryparam=your_shortcode
• Submit the form and the that the string from the input is not encoded or otherwise escaped, special characters will cause problems

Isolating the problem

• This bug happens with only Elementor plugin active (and Elementor Pro).
• This bug happens with a default WordPress theme active.
• I can reproduce this bug consistently using the steps above.

Other

If I use an unfitting way to solve my use case, I'd be happy to hear another option :)
I want a form on the landing page with user input. After the user types some words and clicks the button, he should be redirect to a form where one of the fields is filled with the users input from the landing page.
Here is my page: http://lagerbox-merzig.de/

[diecreativo]

This is a BUG.

When the URL is:

mydomain.com/?name=field id=name]

Does not redirect due to space between field and id.

[shilo-ey]

This issue has been resolved in Elementor Pro v2.9.3

Feel free to update

Thanks!

[ghost]

@shilo-ey
The fix did not tackle my problem.
Fix: Form shortcode IDs are not wrapped in double-quotes (#11023, #10932, #10967, #11000, #11049)
The problem is not the shortcode IDs but the actual content which is not escaped like a URL query String. Instead it will just use the raw String in the url params which leads to problems with special characters. See the site I posted and type a special character like 'ö'

[TitoFM16]

here is a workaround to fix this issue https://github.com/TitoFM16/workaround-for-wp-elementor-plugin-redirection-encoding-parameters-bug

[barttermorshuizen]

Not fixed indeed. Anything passed into the query string is not encoded, causing the redirect to fail.

[barttermorshuizen]

@TitoFM16 : i've seen your workaround - where would this code go?
I'm a bit confused about your use case. wouldnt just urlencode() be sufficient to fix the issue?

[barttermorshuizen]

@shilo-ey can you reopen please? Issue is not fixed

[TitoFM16]

@TitoFM16 : i've seen your workaround - where would this code go? I'm a bit confused about your use case. wouldnt just urlencode() be sufficient to fix the issue?

@barttermorshuizen This code can go whenever you want, but is easier to create this file on the root folder of your WP installation, I don't know if urlencode() is enough to fix the URL but for sure not to redirect, instead I use html_entity_decode to fix the &amp or any other Html Entity to unicode & so the code works as follow:

1- You don't do the redirect to the page you want instead you do the request to the path where the code is, for example www.yourdomain.com/custom-encoder.php

2 - then in the $request_uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; you will get from www.yourdomain.com/custom-encoder.php/query1=data1&ampquery2=data2&ampquery3=data3 just the : custom-encoder.php/query1=data1&ampquery2=data2&ampquery3=data3 so I erase the custom-encoder.php/ and just let the query params

3- then I create the final url concatenating the url to where I want to redirect with the wrong query strings that you got on the point 2.

4- then with the html_entity_decode function I fix the final to have the correct characters and finally I redirect to the correct url with correct encoding.

I just tried with the urlencode and this does not work as you expect, I think the best approach is my workaround, if you need something else, just reply for clarification.