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Fix apostrophe encoding in classic checkout requests - #68365
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Classic checkout serialized form fields with jQuery, which leaves apostrophes unescaped in outgoing request bodies. Strict intermediaries can reject those requests before WooCommerce receives them. Post-process the existing serialized bytes at both checkout request boundaries so apostrophes use %27 while all other jQuery serialization behavior remains unchanged. Cover field names, values, arrays, separators, and existing escapes with exact-byte regression tests. Refs #40791
Document the classic checkout request compatibility fix for the next WooCommerce release. Refs #40791
Trunk has advanced substantially since this work was created. This merge preserves those gains while retaining one shared classic-checkout serializer that percent-encodes raw apostrophes for strict intermediaries. Order-review and final checkout requests remain aligned without double-encoding existing values or changing other form serialization. Refs #40791
Trunk advanced after the previous branch refresh, leaving the issue branch behind the current integration base. Merge the latest trunk while preserving the private classic-checkout serializer, its exact-wire tests, and the manually added changelog. Refs #40791
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15-15: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReplace the regex with a literal replacement.
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The checkout form serializer encoded apostrophes with a global regex, `replace( /'/g, '%27' )`. The repo discourages regular expressions where a readable built-in alternative exists (`.cursor/rules/avoid-regex.mdc`, `alwaysApply` over `**/*.js`). A fixed single-character literal is exactly the case that rule targets, so the regex was not warranted. `split( "'" ).join( '%27' )` produces identical output. `replaceAll` would read better still, but it is not an option here: the classic assets bundle is built with copy/concat/uglify and no Babel pass, so the source ships to browsers untranspiled and unpolyfilled, and an ES2021 method would break older ones. No behavior change; the two apostrophe-encoding tests in `checkout-place-order-api.js` cover the swap. Note that `admin/wc-enhanced-select.js` still uses the regex form for the same encoding. Aligning it is out of scope for this branch, so the two spellings coexist for now. Refs #40791
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Addressed the nitpick from the CodeRabbit review in 746dbc9.
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Hey Vlad — nice piece of detective work on this one. Tracking a WAF rejection back to encodeURIComponent deliberately leaving ' unescaped is not an obvious hop, and the writeup (the untranspiled-bundle reasoning for split().join(), the %27 negative-control fixture) made this easy to review. Both of those held up when I checked.
The transform itself is correct and I confirmed it end to end. There's one gap I'd like to close before this goes in, plus a scoping question.
What I checked that held
- The final
?wc-ajax=checkoutbody is fully fixed: zero literal apostrophes in every scenario I tried, values round-trip byte-for-byte, and the persisted order matches. The issue's own repro (an apostrophe inbilling_email) goes 1 → 0 on both requests. - Every
'inserialize()output is a data character (separators are always&/=), so the blanket replace can't corrupt structure. - A typed
%27survives as%27(serialize()encodes the%first), so it stays distinguishable from a typed apostrophe. post_datastill round-trips for the documentedparse_str()consumption ofwoocommerce_checkout_update_order_review. No in-repo consumer exists; the raw-string case is already disclosed in the description.- No Babel pass in the
client/legacybuild, so avoidingreplaceAllis the right call.
What still lets an apostrophe through
update_order_reviewsends the address parts (city,address,address_2,state, and thes_*copies) as top-level siblings of thepost_datayou're now encoding, and those still go out raw through$.param. WithO'Fallon/123 O'Brien AveI measured 6 literal apostrophes on trunk and 4 with this PR — reduced, not eliminated. Details and a suggested shape inline atcheckout.js:698. This is the one I'd block on.apply_coupon(checkout.js:1267-1280) postsbilling_emailas an object body, so it keeps'literal too — the exact field and value shape from #40791, on the same checkout page.remove_coupon(checkout.js:~1349) has the same shape with the coupon code. Once the body-level helper exists, both are a one-linedata: encodeApostrophes( $.param( data ) ). Can't anchor these inline since the lines aren't in the diff.
Scoping question
The title says "classic checkout requests" (plural) while the description names only the two post_data/final-submit boundaries, and the sibling .serialize() calls in cart.js (shipping calculator, cart update, quantity update) carry the same exposure. Either answer is fine — fix the coupon paths here and leave cart.js for a follow-up, or say explicitly in the description that they're out of scope — I'd just rather it not be implicit, so a later report against the coupon path isn't mistaken for a regression in this fix.
One small test-hygiene nit inline in the Jest file, with suggestions you can batch-apply.
Checkout requests encoded apostrophes only inside the serialized post_data field, so the address fields that update_order_review sends alongside it - city, address, address_2, state and the s_* copies - still reached the server with literal apostrophes. WC_AJAX reads those straight into the customer object, so a shopper in a place like O'Fallon could still trip the WAF rule this fix is meant to avoid. The apply_coupon and remove_coupon requests carried the same exposure on billing_email, the exact field from the original report. Move the encoding to the request body itself. A single encodeApostrophes() helper now wraps every outbound body in the file, so no field can drift out of coverage as the payload grows. Encoding the body rather than one field also keeps post_data byte-identical to what serialize() produced, so third-party callbacks that read the raw string on woocommerce_checkout_update_order_review see exactly what they saw before.
The fake timer setup sat in the outer beforeEach, so it also wrapped the six validation tests that never touch a timer. Only the serialization tests need it, to flush the 5 ms setTimeout in update_checkout. Move the timer hooks into that describe block so the coupling stays local to the tests that depend on it.
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Picking up the two points from the review body that couldn't be anchored inline, @oaratovskyi. Coupon paths — fixed here. You're right that these are the same exposure on the same page, and Scoping — The description also drops the raw- Testing instructions are updated to cover the address fields and the coupon endpoints. Branch is pushed; happy to keep going if any of this reads differently to you. |
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The test's $.param port converted %20 to + with a regular expression. The repo's avoid-regex guideline asks for a built-in alternative wherever one exists, and split().join() is equivalent for a literal substring. It also matches the production helper this PR adds, which uses split().join() because client/legacy has no Babel pass.
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Thanks for the fixes @vladolaru. I tested this on a local wp-env classic checkout, and it looks good. I found no regressions in the exercised paths.
- Checkout AJAX requests are rejected by the shopper's security provider when their email contains an apostrophe
- The address fields (
city,address,state, and thes_*copies) still went out with literal apostrophes - Applying and removing a coupon carried them too
All three are addressed now — 0 literal apostrophes on the wire across all four endpoints, and every value decodes back intact.
This PR is High-Impact under deciding-pr-high-impact.md (critical shopper functionality, $_REQUEST-family data) — worth adding the impact: high label.
Two non-blocking inline notes below.
encodeApostrophes() wraps four request bodies in checkout.js, but the suite only covered two of them - update_order_review and the final checkout submit. Dropping the helper from either coupon call left the tests green, so half the call sites had no regression guard. Add one test per coupon endpoint, asserting the body carries no literal apostrophe and that the values round-trip. Reaching those handlers needed three changes to the mock. The coupon form is bound directly at init(), and the selector dispatch returned a fresh mock per lookup, so the submit registration could not be retrieved afterwards; it now gets a stable mock. Delegated document.body handlers were stored by event name alone, which collided the four click registrations and stored the selector in place of the handler; storage is now selector-aware. The checkout form's find dispatch gained the billing_email entry apply_coupon reads. No production code changes.
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Rounding out the approval, @oaratovskyi — all three follow-ups are handled.
The two inline threads have the detail — coupon coverage added and mutation-checked per call site, and the jQuery AJAX options note in the description with one correction to the No production code moved this round; the only commit is the test file. |
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Ran a backward-compatibility sweep for this change against 45 extensions installed locally — 23 general, 16 payment gateways, 6 shipping — plus the 17 themes in my wp-env. No regression anywhere. Three things are worth putting on the record, @oaratovskyi, because two of them bear directly on calls made in this review. Moving the encoding to the request body prevented a regression, not just a coverage gap. Two installed plugins re-parse the checkout body through a sanitizer that strips percent-encoded octets:
WordPress deletes
The per-field shape would have silently destroyed the apostrophe in both plugins, in the same field class as the original report. The shipped shape is byte-identical to trunk. Your call on this was load-bearing in a way neither of us could see at the time. A related property worth naming, since it constrains future refactors of this code. Mercado Pago globally replaces Scope caveat that is not a regression but bounds the fix. Several checkout-replacing gateways submit the order themselves, serializing Clean negatives, each a zero-hit sweep across all 45. Themes. Ordinary theme work can't be affected by construction — template overrides, custom fields, |
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Trunk gained #68365, which reworked the same Jest suite this branch extends: it encodes apostrophes in every classic checkout request body and restructures the mock harness to reach the coupon endpoints. The harness changes collided with the notice-classification tests here. Resolve the test file onto trunk's harness rather than either side's copy. Trunk's version is the more capable one - it stores delegated document.body handlers by selector, keeps a stable coupon form mock, collects every jQuery.ajax call instead of only the last, and scopes fake timers to the describe blocks that need them. Port this branch's additions on top: the notice group and checkout field mocks, $form.prepend, jQuery.isEmptyObject and jQuery.scroll_to_notices, and the three "Checkout update notices" tests, now reading the update_order_review request out of trunk's capturedAjaxRequests array and declaring their own fake timers. Verified all 13 tests pass, and mutation-tested both sides: removing either result guard in checkout.js fails the notice tests, and dropping encodeApostrophes fails the serialization tests. Refs #40443
Some security intermediaries reject request bodies that contain a literal apostrophe before WooCommerce sees them. encodeURIComponent() leaves ' unescaped, so jQuery's serialize() and $.param() both send it as typed. #68365 fixed this for the classic checkout and left the cart page for a follow-up. Percent-encode apostrophes at the request-body boundary in cart.js: after serialize() for the shipping calculator, update_cart() and quantity_update(), and after $.param() for apply_coupon() and remove_coupon_clicked(). The encodeApostrophes() helper is a verbatim copy of the one in checkout.js; sharing it would need a new script handle and an extra request on both pages. PHP decodes %27 back to ' when it populates $_POST, so every handler receives the same values as before. The coupon endpoints now pass a string to $.ajax instead of a plain object, the same change #68365 made for the checkout coupon endpoints.
This reverts commit 975cd3b (#68365). It restores the 11.1 request shape. update_order_review, apply_coupon and remove_coupon pass a data object to $.ajax() again, so fields removed with checkout field filters are dropped instead of being sent as empty values that blank the customer's country, state and postcode. Third-party ajaxPrefilter callbacks get the data object again rather than a pre-serialized string. Place order sends $form.serialize() as before. The #68365 tests are replaced with tests for the restored request shape. The apostrophe encoding will be re-landed separately. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…kout requests (#69649) Revert apostrophe encoding in classic checkout requests (#69644) This reverts commit 975cd3b (#68365). It restores the 11.1 request shape. update_order_review, apply_coupon and remove_coupon pass a data object to $.ajax() again, so fields removed with checkout field filters are dropped instead of being sent as empty values that blank the customer's country, state and postcode. Third-party ajaxPrefilter callbacks get the data object again rather than a pre-serialized string. Place order sends $form.serialize() as before. The #68365 tests are replaced with tests for the restored request shape. The apostrophe encoding will be re-landed separately. Co-authored-by: Michal Iwanow <4765119+mcliwanow@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Revert apostrophe encoding in classic cart requests This reverts commit 21a50fa (#68556). #68556 made the classic cart send apply_coupon and remove_coupon data as a pre-serialized string (encodeApostrophes( $.param( data ) )) instead of a data object. That is the same shape #68365 introduced on the classic checkout, which 11.2.0 shipped and #69644 reverted in 11.2.1: third-party jQuery.ajaxPrefilter callbacks that read originalOptions.data as an object get a string. HurryTimer's coupon expiry check is one example; with a string it no longer blocks an expired coupon. #68556 is on trunk only, so without this revert it ships in 11.3.0. Reverting restores the 11.2 cart request shape for all five request sites, removes the encodeApostrophes() helper and its tests, and replaces the unreleased fix changelog entry with a dev entry. The apostrophe encoding itself is tracked separately in #69679 and will only land if it is shown to be safe. Refs #68395 * Drop the dev changelog entry from the cart revert The revert already deletes the unreleased fix entry that #68556 added, which is the only changelog file the change ever produced. Nothing shipped, so there is nothing for the release notes to say, and the changelog check passes because the PR touches the changes directory. The branch now matches a plain git revert of #68556. Refs #68395 --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…m encoding The classic cart and checkout send their AJAX bodies through jQuery, which serializes with encodeURIComponent() and leaves !'()~ literal. A browser submitting the same form without JavaScript percent-encodes those five characters, and some WAF rules (Sucuri in #40791) reject the literal apostrophe. The first fix (#68365, #68556) serialized in the callers and shipped in 11.2.0; it turned removed address fields into empty values and handed prefilters a string, so it was reverted (#69644, #69696). The prefilter re-land on this branch kept originalOptions.data intact but still only replaced the apostrophe, assumed jQuery serializes before prefilters run, and called jQuery.ajaxPrefilter() unguarded. Order attribution puts "(none)" in every update_order_review body, so a rule on parentheses blocks the classic checkout at page load; encoding the apostrophe alone leaves that in place. jQuery 4.0.0 runs prefilters before jQuery.param(); WordPress core still ships 3.7.1 and is evaluating 4.x, and once it moves, object data would reach the prefilter untouched and six of the ten requests would go out unencoded with no test to notice. A slim jQuery build has no ajaxPrefilter(), so the unguarded call threw and took the rest of woocommerce.js with it on every page. A json prefilter that rewrote the body before ours would have had its JSON mangled. The prefilter now matches the browser's form serializer for the whole set (!'()~ become %21 %27 %28 %29 %7E), only when the body is application/x-www-form-urlencoded and processData is on, serializes plain object data itself from the copy jQuery already made (so removed fields stay dropped on jQuery 4 too), and registers only when jQuery.ajaxPrefilter exists. The opt-in option is renamed from wc_encode_apostrophes to wc_form_encoding to describe that contract; the old name never shipped. The real-jQuery pipeline test now runs on 3.7.1 and 4.0.0 (devDependency alias jquery4) and asserts the body equals URLSearchParams output. Refs #40791 Refs #68395 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…69679) * fix(checkout): Encode apostrophes through a jQuery ajax prefilter Some web application firewalls reject request bodies that carry a literal apostrophe, so a shopper whose email or city contains one cannot get past the classic checkout's update_order_review call. PR #68365 (11.2.0) fixed that by serializing the data with $.param() and encoding the string before handing it to $.ajax(). That changed two things jQuery's own serialization used to guarantee: undefined values (fields removed from the form by a filter) became empty keys that cleared the customer's country, state and address on every refresh, and prefilters that read originalOptions.data as an object (HurryTimer, Global Seller Services) got a string. The checkout half was reverted in #69644; cart.js still carried the same shape from #68556. Pass the data to $.ajax() as before and register one ajaxPrefilter in woocommerce.js, a dependency of both wc-checkout and wc-cart, that encodes apostrophes in the already-serialized body of requests that opt in with the wc_encode_apostrophes option. jQuery serializes the request first, so removed fields stay out of the body and other prefilters see the original object. Only WooCommerce's own cart and checkout calls set the option; third-party scripts can set it on their own requests. PHP decodes the body once, so $_POST is unchanged. Jest covers the prefilter, the opt-in on every call site, and the object-shaped bodies. Validated on a dev store against HurryTimer, FOX Currency Switcher, the Global Seller Services prefilter, a global beforeSend and the field-removal snippets from the 11.2.0 reports. Refs #40791 * Add changelog entry for the apostrophe encoding prefilter * test(checkout): Cover the apostrophe prefilter with real jQuery The prefilter design depends on jQuery's request order: copy the options (dropping undefined fields), serialize, then run prefilters. The existing Jest tests mock jQuery, so that order was only checked by hand. Add jquery 3.7.1 (the version WordPress ships) as a dev dependency of the classic assets package and a test that runs woocommerce.js through the real pipeline with a fake XMLHttpRequest: removed fields stay out of the body, nested data survives, apostrophes reach the wire as %27, a later prefilter still gets the original object, a global beforeSend and an ajaxSend handler keep working, and a beforeSend that returns false still aborts. Also assert the update_shipping_method request in the cart suite, which was the one request site without a test, and say in the woocommerce.js docblock that later prefilters and beforeSend handlers see the encoded string in options.data. Refs #40791 * test(checkout): Shorten the shipping method selector line in the cart test The cart test compared the chosen shipping methods selector inline, which left a 148-character line. The branch lint job enforces ESLint's 140-character max-len, so the Lint check failed on the PR. Move the selector into a top-level constant next to the other fixtures, split across short string pieces. The test logic is unchanged. Refs #40791 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(checkout): Say which prefilters see the encoded apostrophes The prefilter docblock said every prefilter registered after it sees the encoded body. In jQuery 3.7.1 that is not quite true: prefilters for the request's own data type (json on checkout submit, html on cart requests) run before the '*' list, and a '*' prefilter added with the '+' flag is put in front of ours. Both still see the raw apostrophes, as on 11.2.1, so only the comment was wrong. The pipeline test also claimed plugin scripts always load after woocommerce.js. The script loads with the default defer strategy, so a plugin script in the head can register first. The comment now only says the test prefilter is added after ours. Refs #40791 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(checkout): Drop the beforeSend abort test that only covers jQuery The test set a global beforeSend that returns false and asserted that nothing reached the transport. jQuery runs beforeSend after every prefilter and the prefilter never touches the abort path, so the test kept passing with the prefilter's encoding removed. It could only fail on a jQuery bug. The abort case stays covered by the store validation recorded in the PR. Refs #40791 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(classic-assets): send cart and checkout requests with browser form encoding The classic cart and checkout send their AJAX bodies through jQuery, which serializes with encodeURIComponent() and leaves !'()~ literal. A browser submitting the same form without JavaScript percent-encodes those five characters, and some WAF rules (Sucuri in #40791) reject the literal apostrophe. The first fix (#68365, #68556) serialized in the callers and shipped in 11.2.0; it turned removed address fields into empty values and handed prefilters a string, so it was reverted (#69644, #69696). The prefilter re-land on this branch kept originalOptions.data intact but still only replaced the apostrophe, assumed jQuery serializes before prefilters run, and called jQuery.ajaxPrefilter() unguarded. Order attribution puts "(none)" in every update_order_review body, so a rule on parentheses blocks the classic checkout at page load; encoding the apostrophe alone leaves that in place. jQuery 4.0.0 runs prefilters before jQuery.param(); WordPress core still ships 3.7.1 and is evaluating 4.x, and once it moves, object data would reach the prefilter untouched and six of the ten requests would go out unencoded with no test to notice. A slim jQuery build has no ajaxPrefilter(), so the unguarded call threw and took the rest of woocommerce.js with it on every page. A json prefilter that rewrote the body before ours would have had its JSON mangled. The prefilter now matches the browser's form serializer for the whole set (!'()~ become %21 %27 %28 %29 %7E), only when the body is application/x-www-form-urlencoded and processData is on, serializes plain object data itself from the copy jQuery already made (so removed fields stay dropped on jQuery 4 too), and registers only when jQuery.ajaxPrefilter exists. The opt-in option is renamed from wc_encode_apostrophes to wc_form_encoding to describe that contract; the old name never shipped. The real-jQuery pipeline test now runs on 3.7.1 and 4.0.0 (devDependency alias jquery4) and asserts the body equals URLSearchParams output. Refs #40791 Refs #68395 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(classic-assets): make each prefilter guard fail its own test Review of the form encoding prefilter found that the two "non-form body" unit tests set both processData: false and a non-form content type, so either guard could be removed with every test still passing, and that nothing exercised the traditional pass-through or array data on the jQuery 4 path, where the prefilter serializes the data itself. Split the unit cases so each one differs from a WooCommerce request in one setting only, and add two pipeline cases on real jQuery: traditional array serialization (ids=1&ids=2) and serializeArray()-shaped data. Each of the four tests now fails only when its own code path is removed. Drop the unit test that passed originalOptions to a prefilter that never reads it; the pipeline suite checks that contract with real jQuery on both versions. Refs #40791 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(classic-assets): wrap a long expected body in the prefilter pipeline test The plugin-level ESLint config CI runs on changed files enforces max-len 140, and the serialized-body expectation ran to 169 characters. Split the string literal across two lines. Refs #40791 Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Some security intermediaries reject classic checkout request bodies that contain literal apostrophes before WooCommerce receives them.
encodeURIComponent()deliberately leaves'unescaped, so every jQuery-serialized checkout body carries them through untouched.This change percent-encodes literal apostrophes at the request-body boundary, after jQuery has serialized the payload. A single
encodeApostrophes()helper now wraps all four classic checkout request bodies incheckout.js:update_order_review, the final checkout submit,apply_coupon, andremove_coupon.Encoding the whole body rather than individual fields matters for two reasons:
city,address,address_2,state, and thes_*copies) thatupdate_order_reviewsends as siblings ofpost_data. jQuery serializes those through$.param(), so encoding onlypost_dataleft them literal on the wire — andWC_AJAX::update_order_review()reads them straight intoWC()->customer->set_props(). An address likeO'Fallonor123 O'Brien Avecould still trip the rule this fix is meant to avoid.post_databyte-identical to whatserialize()produced. Bothparse_str()consumers and raw-string consumers ofwoocommerce_checkout_update_order_reviewsee exactly what they saw before this change, so the earlier%27-in-post_datacaveat no longer applies.PHP receives the same decoded field names and values throughout, and a typed literal
%27stays distinguishable from a typed apostrophe. No hooks, public APIs, server behavior, persisted data, script handles, Block Checkout paths, multisite behavior, or install-layout assumptions change. The one client-side surface that does change is jQuery's own AJAX options object, covered next.Compatibility note — jQuery AJAX options. Three of the four calls (
update_order_review,apply_coupon,remove_coupon) now hand jQuery a pre-serialized string where they previously handed it an object; the final checkout submit already passed a string on trunk. Under WooCommerce's normal settings the HTTP body and the PHP-visible values are unchanged apart from the intended'→%27. Two differences are observable in jQuery's own AJAX surface, both measured against the jQuery 3.7.1 this repo ships:originalOptions.datais now a string rather than an object at those three call sites, so a prefilter or transport factory readingoriginalOptions.data.post_datagetsundefined.settings.data— the value prefilters,beforeSend, andajaxSendactually document — is a string on trunk and on this branch alike, so the documented surface is unaffected.$.ajaxSetup( { traditional: true } )no longer affectsshipping_method.jQuery.param( a, traditional )in jQuery 3.x uses the argument as passed and no longer falls back tojQuery.ajaxSettings.traditional, so calling$.param( data )directly always serializes recursively. In practice this fixes more than it changes: undertraditional: true, trunk sentshipping_methodas the literal string[object Object], since traditional mode does not recurse into the plain object the shipping methods are collected into. This branch sends the usableshipping_method[0]=…form regardless of the setting.Neither surface has an in-repository consumer —
originalOptions,ajaxPrefilter,ajaxTransport, andtraditionalreturn no hits acrossplugins/andpackages/outside vendored jQuery — so the exposure is third-party only.Out of scope: the sibling
.serialize()calls incart.js(shipping_calculator_submit()at:377,update_cart()at:494,quantity_update()at:744) carry the same exposure on the cart page. They are intentionally left out rather than widening this PR past the checkout boundary, and are tracked in #68395.Closes #40791.
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How to test the changes in this Pull Request:
Using the WooCommerce Testing Instructions Guide, include your detailed testing instructions:
pnpm wc:build:classic-assets.shopper'o@example.testandO'Connor, then change a checkout field to trigger?wc-ajax=update_order_review.%27appears in their place, including in the top-levelcityandaddressfields, not just insidepost_data.post_datavalue is exactly whatserialize()would have produced (no%27inside it once the outer layer is decoded).O'Fallon/123 O'Brien Aveand repeat step 4; on trunk these fields carry literal apostrophes.billing_emailstill in the field, and confirm the?wc-ajax=apply_couponand?wc-ajax=remove_couponbodies are likewise clean and that both operations succeed.?wc-ajax=checkoutbody contains%27, the request succeeds, and the order-received page shows the original decoded data.pnpm --filter=@woocommerce/classic-assets test:js --runInBand frontend/test/checkout-place-order-api.jsand confirm all ten tests pass.Testing that has already taken place:
encodeApostrophes()fails both serialization tests, and reverting to the earlier per-field shape (encoding onlypost_data, leaving the object body raw) fails theupdate_order_reviewtest. Restoring the implementation returned both to green.encodeApostrophes()fromapply_couponfails only the apply-coupon test, and removing it fromremove_couponfails only the remove-coupon test;checkout.jswas restored to a clean diff after each control.O'Fallon/123 O'Brien Ave/O'Statefixture: 8 literal apostrophes on trunk, 0 with this change. The same bodies were then round-tripped through PHPparse_str(), confirming that every value decodes identically to trunk — including the nestedshipping_method[]array — and thatpost_datacomes back byte-for-byte equal toserialize()output.%27was confirmed to survive as%27while a typed apostrophe becomes', so the two remain distinguishable.Milestone
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