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What changed

  • validate filtered popup query results from their existing WP_Post properties, rejecting non-popup and unrequested draft/future/private records without per-ID lookup queries
  • allow explicitly requested private choices only when WordPress considers them readable
  • constrain the dedicated title-choice filter to IDs already approved by the popup query
  • key the request-static ID cache by the posts last_changed value and current user
  • preserve the normal lightweight two-query path without model or post-object hydration

Why

The shared selector helper is the boundary used by popup-choice consumers. Query-result and title filters can mutate results after WP_Query applies its original constraints, while request-static IDs can become stale after post changes or user switches. The helper now owns those validation and cache-context guarantees once for all callers.

Validation

  • full PHPUnit: 1,076 tests, 2,512 assertions, 22 pre-existing skips
  • focused helper/repository suite: 24 tests, 52 assertions
  • PHPCS: changed production and test files clean
  • PHPStan: changed production file clean; full-repo run retains 28 unrelated baseline findings outside this diff
  • PHP syntax and git diff --check: clean

Ablation evidence

Each guard was removed and restored independently:

  • removing post-type validation admitted a filtered Page
  • removing status validation admitted a filtered draft popup
  • removing private capability validation admitted an injected unreadable private popup
  • removing perm => readable exposed private IDs on the normal ID path
  • removing filtered-map constraints admitted a draft ID from the title-choice filter
  • removing posts last_changed kept stale same-request IDs after post changes
  • removing current-user context reused subscriber results for an administrator

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved popup selection lists by excluding invalid, unauthorized, or inaccessible private entries.
    • Added support for combined published and private popup queries.
    • Ensured lists refresh correctly after popup status changes.
    • Prevented filters from injecting entries that were not part of the original results.
    • Improved handling of invalid title-choice filters.

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Walkthrough

popup_selectlist now validates requested statuses and filtered results, applies readable access checks for private popups, and varies cached IDs by post-cache state and user. Tests cover permission filtering, injection rejection, cache refresh, and post-object cleanup.

Changes

Popup select-list hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Status and permission-aware querying
classes/Helpers.php, tests/php/tests/PUM_Helpers_Test.php
Requested statuses are sanitized and deduplicated. Combined publish and private queries use readable-permission filtering. Tests verify private-popup access for subscribers and administrators.
Filtered result validation
classes/Helpers.php, tests/php/tests/PUM_Helpers_Test.php
Filtered results must contain valid popup post types and statuses. Unreadable private posts and unqueried title choices are excluded.
Cache freshness and cleanup
classes/Helpers.php, tests/php/tests/PUM_Helpers_Test.php
The cache key includes post-cache invalidation state and the current user ID. Tests verify updates after post changes and confirm post objects are not retained in cache.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to 16fdf

The helper now validates filtered popup records and limits title choices to approved query results while preserving the lightweight lookup path and correct cache context; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@classes/Helpers.php`:
- Around line 433-442: Update the filtered-popup validation around the WP_Post
checks to reject published popup objects whose IDs are not present in the
requested query result, while preserving the existing private-post capability
check. Intersect the filtered posts with the query-approved popup IDs before
populating $popup_list, and add the corresponding unrequested published-popup
case to invalid_filtered_post_provider().
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