[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #45714: Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard

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#45714: Allow all valid email formats when editing accounts in the dashboard
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 Reporter:  chrisl27        |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Users           |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  administration  |
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 When updating an email address in the dashboard wp-
 admin/includes/user.php:80 uses sanitize_text_field which strips out a
 substring like "%ed" even though that is valid in the local part of an
 email address. Eg, the valid email address "user%edition at site.com" is
 saved as "userition at site.com".

 This ticket requests to using sanitize_email instead, similar to the REST
 API that checks using is_email.

 (A related, fixed issue is in #18039 which also recommended using
 sanitize_email)

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