Skip to content

Comments: Email check for non logged in users #8443

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
Infinite-Null wants to merge 10 commits into
base: trunk
Choose a base branch
from
Open

Comments: Email check for non logged in users #8443

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
10 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
84d80d0
Moderate comments from not login users with registered email addresses
Infinite-Null Mar 3, 2025
d406fe2
Add test for non-logged-in user using registered email in comments
Infinite-Null Apr 9, 2025
0208eb2
Rename test method for clarity on non-logged-in user email validation
Infinite-Null Jun 6, 2025
12fca27
Merge branch 'trunk' into fix/moderate-registered-email-comments
Infinite-Null Apr 1, 2026
ef55950
Comments: Prevent submission of comments with registered email addres…
Infinite-Null Apr 1, 2026
62342e4
Merge branch 'trunk' into fix/moderate-registered-email-comments
Infinite-Null Apr 2, 2026
d732650
Remove test for non-logged-in users using registered email in comment…
Infinite-Null Apr 2, 2026
8dab15c
Fix formatting of login URL in wp_check_comment_data function
Infinite-Null Apr 2, 2026
01a562b
chore: Re-run test
Infinite-Null Apr 2, 2026
ca2ccef
Fix typo in comment header for testing
Infinite-Null Apr 2, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions src/wp-includes/comment.php
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -1294,6 +1294,24 @@ function wp_check_comment_data_max_lengths( $comment_data ) {
function wp_check_comment_data( $comment_data ) {
global $wpdb;

if ( ! is_user_logged_in() && isset( $comment_data['comment_author_email'] ) && email_exists( $comment_data['comment_author_email'] ) ) {
$referrer = wp_get_referer() ? wp_get_referer() : home_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
$login_url = wp_login_url( $referrer );

wp_die(
'<p>' . sprintf(
/* translators: %s: Login URL link */
__( 'The email address you entered is already associated with a registered account. Please <a href="%s">log in</a> to continue.' ),
esc_url( $login_url )
) . '</p>',
__( 'Email Address Error' ),
array(
'response' => 403,
'back_link' => true,
)
);
}

if ( ! empty( $comment_data['user_id'] ) ) {
$user = get_userdata( $comment_data['user_id'] );
$post_author = (int) $wpdb->get_var(
Expand Down
Loading