[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #37957: Wordpress Maximum Post Submit Fields

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#37957: Wordpress Maximum Post Submit Fields
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 Reporter:  nathanmemoria      |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)       |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Posts, Post Types  |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal             |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration     |
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 Wordpress submits post/page/custom post data & metadata in an HTTP post
 request. Because of a DOS vulnerability in PHP
 (http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/171-PHP-Vulnerability-May-Halt-
 Millions-of-Servers.html), a limit to php fields was added as the default.

 It there are 1,000+ fields, the default is not to truncate these fields
 without any notice. Several of my clients have suffered from this issues.
 Specifically, plugins that use a custom post type with a lot of meta data
 will be effected.

 This seems to be a core issue rather than a plugin issue. There are two
 solutions:
 Ideally, the data should all be wrapped in one field and submitted (as
 ajax requests currently are), or less ideal there should be a warning when
 data is lost.

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