php://input bug (with suggested fix)

Hi,

I’m the lead developer of Event Organiser (and the associated extensions). I’ve found a bug which causes a conflict between ManageWP and some of those extensions (and, quite possibly other plug-ins to).

It relates to the code in init.php, specifically this line. Since php://input is stream, calling file_get_contents(‘php://input’) effecitvely “loses” the data, so that subsequent calls to file_get_contents(‘php://input’) return nothing.

In this case, data that was intended for a different plug-in was read by ManageWP, so by the time that plug-in executed the data was gone.

The fix would simple: only read php://input when the request is directed at a particular end-point.

Many thanks!
Stephen

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