Replace deprecated FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING #2529
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Description of the Change
This PR replaces the deprecated
FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING
with other filters, mostly withFILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS
.It is a copy of Automattic#135, and it has already been tested.
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Verification Process
The changes were verified by vip-go-mu-plugin's test suite as described in Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins#2667; this patch was tested against WP 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, trunk; PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1
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Changelog Entry
Fixed: better compatibility with PHP 8.1 by replacing the deprecated
FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING
.