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@himanshupathak95 himanshupathak95 commented Mar 23, 2026

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60355

On PHP 8.1+, passing an object with readonly properties through map_deep() causes a fatal error because the function attempts to reassign every property after applying the callback.

This affects any code path that stores objects in metadata, since update_metadata()wp_unslash()stripslashes_deep() calls map_deep() internally.

This PR adds a PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80100 guard inside map_deep() that uses ReflectionProperty::isReadOnly() to detect and skip readonly properties.

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