Title: Please add data sanitizing
Last modified: February 23, 2017

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# Please add data sanitizing

 *  [tiphiii](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiphiii/)
 * (@tiphiii)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-add-data-sanitizing/)
 * Hello,
 * I have downloaded your plugin to test it, it works perfectly in WordPress 4.7.2.
   
   I have noticed that you’re not sanitizing the user-entered search parameter $
   s though and would recommend that you add this in the next update as a security
   fix.
 * `intval($s)` for integers and `sanitize_text_field($s)` would be sufficient.
 * For your reference: [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/security/securing-input/](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/security/securing-input/)
 * Best regards

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