Title: User input sanitization
Last modified: April 13, 2020

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# User input sanitization

 *  Resolved [CharlesDerre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brakkar/)
 * (@brakkar)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-input-sanitization/)
 * Hi,
    i’m surprised this is not a built in feature of the plugin. Anyway it’s 
   imperative to sanitize user content.
 * I tried this, but it doesn’t work. How to do it properly?
 *     ```
       function sanitize_forms( $error ) {
   
   
           if ( isset( $_POST['user_content_copyright'] ) ) {
       		sanitize_text_field($_POST['user_content_copyright']);
   
           }
   
       	return'';
   
       }
   
       add_filter( 'wpuf_add_post_validate', 'sanitize_forms' );
       ```
   
 * The goal here is to sanitize $_POST[‘user_content_copyright’] BEFORE it gets 
   in the db.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-input-sanitization/)
 * Status: resolved