Trac Notifications: Map the maintainer capability against the component page

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Trac Notifications: Map the maintainer capability against the component page

Why

Make_Core_Trac_Components::map_meta_cap() lets a component's listed maintainers edit that component page on make.wordpress.org without being an Editor. The mapping is looser than the delegation it implements: it is not limited to the capabilities that come with a post ID, and where the ID is missing it fills one in itself. Next to it, the component post type inherits the generic post capabilities for everything except delete_published_posts, and the settings box that names the maintainers is saved along with the rest of the page.

What changed

The filter maps edit_post and publish_post, against the post it was given. For a listed maintainer both resolve to edit_posts. Nothing else is mapped, and nothing is read from the request.

The edit form's author field is dropped for a maintainer's own save. The form submits the page's existing author, and _wp_translate_postdata() then checks edit_others_posts with no post attached, which a maintainer saving a page an Editor created would otherwise fail. For a nonce-verified editpost or preview of a component the current user maintains, where the submitted author matches the stored one, a load-post.php hook unsets that field, so core fills in the current user and asks for nothing more. No capability is granted for the save.

A component page keeps its author unless the person saving holds edit_others_posts. A wp_insert_post_data filter restores the stored author otherwise. That covers the save above, and also Quick Edit, which never submits an author. Updates with no user signed in are left alone.

Creating a component page needs edit_others_posts. Listing and editing are unchanged, so maintainers keep the Components menu and their edit screen. The "Add New" submenu was removed years ago, so this matches what the UI already offered.

Changing who maintains a page needs edit_others_posts. Maintainers see the list as text in the settings box instead of a field, and the value is only saved from someone who holds that capability. The check runs with the save-time mapping removed.

Smaller things: in Trac Watcher, the props editing page is registered at edit_others_posts, matching what its handlers check since #750 (Reports stays at edit_posts), and get_svns_for_current_site() applies the per-site project list the menu already used to the save handlers as well.

Testing

trac-notifications had no suite, so this adds one along the lines of the Trac Watcher one and wires it into make:test. The bootstrap loads Make_Core_Trac_Components on its own with home_url pointed at make.wordpress.org/core for the constructor, since the plugin's main file needs a Trac API key. 18 tests: who can create a component page, per-page editing for a maintainer versus another Contributor (by ID and by post object, and with the login in a different case), the author field being dropped only for a verified save by a maintainer with the author unchanged, a maintainer's save going through core's own edit_post() with the author kept whether or not the field was sent, that only an Editor can reassign the author, the same save refused for a Contributor who is not listed, and the maintainers list changing for an Editor and not for a maintainer.

Trac Watcher gets a test for the editing page's capability. Its existing suite and o2 Posting Access still pass.

Checked by hand on wp-env with an Editor-authored component maintained by a Contributor: the classic editor's Update and Preview both work for the maintainer with the author unchanged, and as that Contributor the component "Add New" screen and the props editing page are refused while Reports opens.

Left alone, older than this change: autosave of a page the maintainer did not author fails, since the heartbeat request is not the edit form.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Component creation and editing now enforce more precise contributor and maintainer permissions.
  • Maintainer lists are protected from unauthorized changes, with case-insensitive maintainer matching.
  • Component authorship is preserved during verified saves and previews.
  • Trac Watcher admin menus and SVN operations now use site-specific project data in multisite environments.
  • Props editing pages now require elevated editing permissions.
  • Trac notifications now handle URLs with missing path segments without errors.

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The change adds Trac Notifications PHPUnit infrastructure and permission tests for component editing and maintainer management. It also adds site-scoped SVN selection and stricter Props menu permissions in Trac Watcher. The Trac Notifications constructor now handles URLs without a Trac identifier.

Changes

Trac Notifications permissions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Component capability and save handling wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/trac-components.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/trac-notifications.php	Component creation, editing, saving, preview, and maintainer management now use validated capability checks. URL parsing defaults a missing Trac identifier to an empty string.
Component PHPUnit foundation and workflow wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/phpunit.xml.dist, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/phpunit/bootstrap.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/phpunit/includes/testcase.php, environments/package.json	The PHPUnit setup initializes WordPress test state, isolates tests, and adds the Trac Notifications test command to the aggregate workflow.
Component permission and maintainer tests wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/phpunit/tests/WPorg_Trac_Components_Test.php	Tests cover creation, editing, saving, denial paths, settings visibility, and maintainer-list updates.

Trac Watcher site scoping

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Site-scoped SVN access wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wporg-trac-watcher/admin/ui.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wporg-trac-watcher/admin/post.php	SVN data now comes from get_svns_for_current_site(), which selects the matching site project or returns all projects.
Props menu capability and validation wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wporg-trac-watcher/admin/ui.php, wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wporg-trac-watcher/phpunit/tests/WPorg_Trac_Watcher_Admin_Menu_Test.php	The Props menu now requires edit_others_posts. Tests verify menu registration and capability requirements.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1fda4

Component-page permission changes may deny a listed maintainer access when login casing differs, and saves without an author field may change page ownership. These authorization and ownership risks should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EditorOrMaintainer
  participant WordPress
  participant Make_Core_Trac_Components
  EditorOrMaintainer->>WordPress: submit component edit or preview
  WordPress->>Make_Core_Trac_Components: validate post, nonce, author, and maintainer status
  Make_Core_Trac_Components->>WordPress: preserve author and map permitted capabilities

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wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/trac-components.php (1)

324-324: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Clean up the mapper after the classic request completes.

editpost runs edit_post(), which performs later edit_others_posts checks after save_post_component. Removing the mapper in save_post_component is too early and can alter core's remaining save flow. The preview path can create an autosave revision without firing save_post_component, so that hook cannot clean up the mapper. Remove it from the final wp_redirect cleanup for both paths.

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In
`@wordpress.org/public_html/wp-content/plugins/trac-notifications/trac-components.php`
at line 324, Move removal of the map_edit_others_posts_for_save mapper from
save_post_component to the final wp_redirect cleanup, ensuring both the editpost
and preview paths remove the filter after the classic request completes.

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- Around line 351-358: Update save_post() to resolve each submitted maintainer
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user_login instead of the sanitized input; preserve only valid resolved users.
Keep is_maintainer() unchanged so its strict comparison uses canonical values.

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- Line 324: Move removal of the map_edit_others_posts_for_save mapper from
save_post_component to the final wp_redirect cleanup, ensuring both the editpost
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[mcliwanow]

Re the mapper cleanup nit: it is not removed in save_post_component, only lifted for one check in can_edit_maintainers() and put back. It stays for the whole request on purpose.

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319-320: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject saves that omit post_author.

When post_author is absent, _wp_translate_postdata() assigns the current user before checking edit_others_posts. The fallback treats the existing author as unchanged and installs the mapper, so edit_post() can persist the maintainer as author of an editor-owned component.

Require post_author before installing the mapper. Add a regression test for a valid maintainer save that omits this field and verifies that the author remains unchanged.

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In
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around lines 319 - 320, Update the author-handling condition around the $author
calculation so the mapper is installed only when $_POST['post_author'] is
present, while preserving override and changed-author behavior. Add a regression
test covering a valid maintainer save that omits post_author and asserts the
component author remains unchanged.

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- Around line 319-320: Update the author-handling condition around the $author
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[bor0]

Code review notes. Four findings, two of which look worth addressing before commit.

1. The "author unchanged" guard is bypassable by omitting post_author (trac-components.php:320)

$author = isset( $_POST['post_author'] ) ? (int) $_POST['post_author'] : (int) $post->post_author;
if ( ! empty( $_POST['post_author_override'] ) || $author !== (int) $post->post_author ) {
	return;
}

Core does not fall back to the stored author. _wp_translate_postdata() (wp-admin/includes/post.php:63-72) sets $post_data['user_ID'] = get_current_user_id(), and when post_author is empty or absent it sets $post_data['post_author'] = (int) $post_data['user_ID'].

So a listed maintainer can POST action=editpost with a valid update-post_{ID} nonce and no post_author field (it is only a hidden input in the classic editor form). The guard defaults $author to the editor's own ID, sees no change, and allows the save. Core then sets post_author to the maintainer, and since post_author === user_ID the edit_others_posts check is skipped entirely. The post is silently reassigned, which is exactly what the comment above the guard says should not be allowed.

Suggested fix: treat a missing or empty post_author as a change and return early, rather than assuming the stored value.

2. map_edit_others_posts_for_save() ignores $user_id and is never removed (trac-components.php:324,336)

The callback is registered with accepted_args = 2 and only inspects $cap, so it rewrites edit_others_posts to edit_posts for any user, not just the maintainer performing the save, and it stays registered for the rest of the request after edit_post() returns.

On the Make network this is amplified: wporg-o2-posting-access.php:281 grants edit_posts to every logged-in non-member, so while the filter is active user_can( $any_logged_in_user, 'edit_others_posts' ) returns true.

Concrete misbehavior inside the same request:

• edit_post() gates sticky handling on current_user_can( $ptype->cap->edit_others_posts ) && current_user_can( $ptype->cap->publish_posts ) (wp-admin/includes/post.php:471). Both now answer true for the maintainer, so a sticky field in the POST reaches stick_post().
• Any save_post / wp_after_insert_post / transition_post_status callback that asks about edit_others_posts, for the current user or another one, gets a wrong answer.

can_edit_maintainers() only defends the plugin's own question. Suggested fix: register with 4 args, compare $user_id === get_current_user_id(), and remove the filter once the save is done.

3. absint( $context[0] ) breaks when the cap is checked with a WP_Post (trac-components.php:277)

$post_id = isset( $context[0] ) ? absint( $context[0] ) : 0;

Core's own map_meta_cap() accepts an object for edit_post ($post = get_post( $args[0] )), and the previous code passed $context[0] straight to get_post_type(), which also accepts objects. Any caller doing current_user_can( 'edit_post', $post_object ) now emits Warning: Object of class WP_Post could not be converted to int under PHP 8.4 and evaluates the mapping against post ID 1 instead of the component, so a maintainer's edit link or check silently fails.

Suggested fix: use get_post( $context[0] ) and read ->ID / ->post_type.

4. The is_multisite() guard was dropped from the SVN scoping logic (wporg-trac-watcher/admin/ui.php:59)

The old inline code only narrowed $svns when is_multisite(); get_svns_for_current_site() narrows on the home URL path alone. A single-site install served from a subdirectory whose name collides with an SVN slug (https://example.com/core/) now silently hides every other project's props menu, and admin_post_svn_save / reparse_svn (admin/post.php:13,149) will die(-1) for any other project.

No effect on the Make network itself, which is multisite, but it is a behavior change that the new test env depends on (.wp-env.test.json is not multisite), so it will not be caught there.

Looked at and found fine

The create_posts to edit_others_posts capability change, the read-only maintainers metabox, the can_edit_maintainers() remove/re-add dance, the props page capability bump (WP promotes the still-accessible Reports submenu to be the parent link for edit_posts-only users), and the load-post.php hook ordering (wp-admin/admin.php:390 fires it before post.php's edit_post() switch).

[mcliwanow]

Thanks. Pushed, squashed into one commit.

1. You're right about the missing post_author, though the guard wasn't what let it through: with the field absent core sets the author to the current user and never asks for edit_others_posts at all, so returning early there wouldn't have changed anything. Went the other way: keep_component_author() on wp_insert_post_data puts the stored author back unless the person saving really holds edit_others_posts. That also covers Quick Edit, which never sends the field (and could reassign the page before this PR too).

2. With that in place the mapping turned out to be unnecessary. For a verified save from the edit form by a maintainer with the author unchanged, load_post_screen() now unsets $_POST['post_author'] instead, so core fills in the current user and has nothing to ask. No capability is granted anywhere anymore, the sticky handling and any save_post callbacks get real answers, and the remove/re-add in can_edit_maintainers() is gone.

3. get_post( $context[0] ), with a test passing a WP_Post.

4. is_multisite() is back. The two scoping tests that depended on dropping it went away, the test env is single-site.

Both suites green (18 + 18). Also ran the form save, a save without the author field, an attempt to set the author, and preview over HTTP on wp-env as a Contributor maintainer.