Textarea escaping on each save

• samhayman

• February 13, 2019 at 4:15 am

Hi guys,

I have an ACF Theme Options page to allow the user to insert HTML code for a donation button in TextArea field.

Each time I save the options page, slashes are being added. I understand it happening on the first save, but they keep adding up…

First Save
<form action=\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">
Second Save
<form action=\\\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\\\" method=\\\"post\\\" target=\\\"_top\\\">
Third Save
<form action=\\\\\\\"https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr\\\\\\\" method=\\\\\\\"post\\\\\\\" target=\\\\\\\"_top\\\\\\\">

I am slash-stripping on the front end but it’s annoying. Any idea what’s going on, please?

• Elliot

• February 13, 2019 at 1:12 pm

My apologies for the issues in version 5.7.11.
I am confident we have found and fixed the issue.

Can you please re-download the ACF PRO plugin files and test the issue?

An easy way to re-download is to edit the main acf.php plugin file and change the version number ‘5.7.11’ down to ‘5.7.10’
– please note the version number appears twice in this file and both will need to be changed
– after this change is made, please update the plugin as per normal and it will update to 5.7.11 (including the new fix)

• samhayman

• February 13, 2019 at 6:29 pm

That fixed it. Thanks Elliot! 🙂