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Two review comments were left unresolved on PRs that are already merged and shipped in 1.34.0 — one from CodeRabbit on #305, one from Pullfrog on #313. I only checked #314 thoroughly before publishing and assumed the earlier ones were clear because they were merged. That was an assumption, not a check. Both are valid against the current code.

A raw-text region that ends too early (shipped)

strip_non_markup() located the end of <script>, <style>, <title>, <textarea> and friends with a plain substring search for </ plus the name. That matches a longer name too: </titlex> closes <title>, </stylex> closes <style>. Everything after the false end is handed back as live markup, so a marker sitting in inert text — text a browser renders as the title, never as an element — passes verification.

The consequence is the one this class exists to prevent: the footer route is believed, the plugin stops rendering its own revisit widget, and the visitor is left with no way to withdraw consent. Fail-open, in the one class whose stated contract is to fail closed.

Reproduced before fixing:

<title>Writing </titlex> more <a data-faz-open-preferences>fake</a></title><footer>none</footer>
→ body_has_marker() === true   (should be false)

HTML5 ends a raw-text element only when the name is followed by whitespace, / or >. The match is anchored to that boundary now.

About the tests

Four cases, one per raw-text element. Each puts a real element carrying the marker after the fake closing tag, and that detail is the whole point: my first draft left the marker in loose text, where the DOM parser finds no attribute and the assertion passes regardless of what strip_non_markup() does — green and worthless. I caught it with the control run, which showed only 1 of 4 going red.

Control run against the old substring search: all four go red. The case asserting that a genuine closing tag still ends the region stays green, so the fix cannot have made the region unbounded instead.

An assertion that could not catch its own regression

strpos( $dns_body, 'width:100%' ) also matches min-width:100% and max-width:100%, neither of which makes the Do-Not-Sell row span the wrapper. Anchored to a declaration boundary now. Demonstrated against a body carrying min-width:100%: the old check passes, the new one fails.

Does this need a 1.34.1?

The raw-text defect is in shipped code and its failure mode is a visitor with no withdrawal route, which is a compliance outcome rather than a cosmetic one. It needs a page whose raw-text element contains a </name…> sequence with a > in it, which is uncommon but not contrived — a <script> holding a JSON string, a <textarea> with user-pasted markup, a CSS comment. I would rather ship it than sit on it, but that is a call to make rather than assume, so I have not bumped a version here.

Verification

  • 198/198 unit suites
  • 97/97 assertions in the withdrawal runner, 97/97 in the compact-CSS runner
  • php -l clean across 404 files
  • withdrawal-path-verification 2 passed, mobile-compact-layout 6 passed

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Correzioni
    • Migliorato il riconoscimento delle chiusure valide degli elementi title, style, script e textarea, evitando che chiusure simili ma non valide attivino markup successivo.
    • Reso più preciso il controllo della dichiarazione CSS width: 100%, distinguendola da min-width e max-width.

Two review findings that were left open on PRs already merged and shipped in
1.34.0. Both are valid against the current code.

strip_non_markup() found the end of a <script>, <style>, <title>, <textarea> and
friends with a plain substring search for "</" plus the name. That also matches a
longer name: `</titlex>` closes <title>, `</stylex>` closes <style>. Everything
after the false end is then handed back as live markup, so a marker sitting in
inert text — text a browser renders as the title, never as an element — passes
verification. The footer route is believed, this plugin stops rendering its own
revisit widget, and the visitor is left with no way to withdraw consent. That is
fail-open, in the one class whose stated contract is to fail closed, and it is
the same outcome the whole verification exists to prevent.

HTML5 ends a raw-text element only when the name is followed by whitespace, `/`
or `>`. The match is now anchored to that boundary.

Four cases cover it, one per raw-text element. Each one puts a REAL element
carrying the marker after the fake closing tag, and that detail is the point: my
first draft left the marker in loose text, where the DOM parser finds no
attribute and the assertion passes whatever strip_non_markup() does — green and
worthless. Control run against the old substring search: all four go red, and
the case asserting that a genuine closing tag still ends the region stays green,
so the fix cannot have made the region unbounded instead.

Second finding, in the compact-layout test: `strpos( $dns_body, 'width:100%' )`
also matches `min-width:100%` and `max-width:100%`, neither of which makes the
Do-Not-Sell row span the wrapper — so the assertion could not catch the
regression it was written for. It is anchored to a declaration boundary now.
Demonstrated: against a body carrying `min-width:100%` the old check passes and
the new one fails.

Verified: 198 of 198 unit suites, 97/97 in the withdrawal runner and 97/97 in the
compact-CSS runner, php -l clean, and the two E2E specs that exercise these paths
green (withdrawal-path-verification 2 passed, mobile-compact-layout 6 passed).
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La ricerca delle chiusure degli elementi raw-text ora richiede un delimitatore valido dopo il nome del tag. I test verificano chiusure false e valide. Un’asserzione CSS richiede che width:100% sia una dichiarazione autonoma.

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Chiusure degli elementi raw-text

Layer / File(s) Summary
Riconoscimento delle chiusure raw-text
includes/class-withdrawal-path.php, tests/unit/test-withdrawal-path-php.php
strip_non_markup() riconosce una chiusura solo se il nome del tag è seguito da un delimitatore HTML5. I test verificano che chiusure false non rendano rilevabile il marker e che una chiusura valida ripristini il rilevamento.

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Asserzione CSS esatta
tests/unit/test-mobile-compact-css-php.php
Il test richiede la dichiarazione autonoma width:100%; min-width:100% e max-width:100% non soddisfano più l’asserzione.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7fa35

The fix closes the reported </titlex> bypass. One narrow edge case remains: a vertical tab after a closing tag name is still treated as a valid close, so a withdrawal route could pass verification when its marker is not active markup. Restricting the delimiter to HTML's allowed characters before release would close this gap. The compact-CSS test can also be tightened.

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Review comments at @includes/class-withdrawal-path.php:
- Line 507: In the `$close_pattern` delimiter lookahead, replace `\s` with the
explicit permitted ASCII delimiters space, tab, newline, form feed, carriage
return, slash, and `>`, so vertical tab does not count as an HTML closing-tag
delimiter. Add a false-closing-tag test using `\x0B` and preserve the production
PHP route-check behavior.

Review comments at @tests/unit/test-mobile-compact-css-php.php:
- Line 179: Update the width assertion in the Do-Not-Sell test to require a
semicolon or end-of-string immediately after 100%, so values such as
width:100%junk do not pass.

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ℹ️ No critical issues. One minor suggestion inline.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the raw-text boundary fix in Withdrawal_Path::strip_non_markup() and the two test changes that come with it.

  • Raw-text end tag anchored to the name boundary: </NAME now has to be followed by whitespace, / or >, so </titlex>, </stylex> and similar no longer end the region early and leave inert text to be parsed as live markup.
  • Regression cases for each raw-text element: four negative cases each put a real marked <a> after a fake closer. One positive case checks that a genuine </title> still ends the region. The cases can genuinely fail: each marker sits in a real element, so it only reaches the DOM check when the region ends too early.
  • Do-Not-Sell width:100% assertion anchored: $dns_body is the content captured inside {…}, so (?:^|;) correctly rejects min-width:100% / max-width:100%.

I ran both unit files locally and they pass.

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Both reviewers found the same hole independently, and they are right.

PCRE's `\s` matches the vertical tab; HTML's whitespace set does not. So
`</title\x0B>` closed the raw-text region in my fix while a browser keeps
reading title text — the same fail-open the change set out to close, reached
with a less likely input. The delimiter set is now written out as the spec
defines it: tab, LF, FF, CR, space, `/`, `>`. A case with \x0B joins the false
closers, and the control run confirms it: back on `\s` that case goes red.

The CSS assertion was only bounded at the front, so `width:100%junk` satisfied
it — a value a browser discards, meaning the test could pass on a rule that sets
no usable width. It now requires `;` or end of string after the value.
Demonstrated: against `width:100%junk` the unbounded regex passes and the
bounded one fails.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed 10c03e5, which follows up on the vertical-tab finding and on CodeRabbit's trailing-boundary note.

  • Spelled out the HTML whitespace set in the end-tag lookahead: \s became [\t\n\f\r />], so </title\x0B> no longer closes the region. CR belongs in the set because the tokenizer turns CR into LF before it tokenizes.
  • Added a \x0B regression case: the case uses a double-quoted PHP string, so the byte really is a VT. It puts a real marked <a> after the fake closer, so it would go red against the old \s pattern.
  • Bounded the width:100% assertion on both sides: adding (?=;|$) stops width:100%junk from passing, along with the min-width/max-width cases the first commit already handled.

At this head, test-withdrawal-path-php.php passes 98/98 and test-mobile-compact-css-php.php passes 97/97. I also spot-checked the pattern: it matches >, /, \r, \f and uppercase names, and it rejects \x0B and x.

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