Deprecated: addslashes(): Passing null to parameter → `WP_SQLite_DB->_real_escape( $str )`

[remcotolsma]

We noticed the following error:

Deprecated: addslashes(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in sqlite-database-integration/wp-includes/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-db.php on line 107

sqlite-database-integration/wp-includes/sqlite/class-wp-sqlite-db.php

Lines 95 to 108 in 037f6ef

	/**
	* Method to escape characters.
	*
	* This overrides wpdb::_real_escape() to avoid using mysql_real_escape_string().
	*
	* @see wpdb::_real_escape()
	*
	* @param string $str The string to escape.
	*
	* @return string escaped
	*/
	public function _real_escape( $str ) {
	return addslashes( $str );
	}

I think that in certain cases null is passed to the _real_escape function.

In WordPress core they check on the type with is_scalar( $data ):

	/**
	 * Real escape using mysqli_real_escape_string().
	 *
	 * @since 2.8.0
	 *
	 * @see mysqli_real_escape_string()
	 *
	 * @param string $data String to escape.
	 * @return string Escaped string.
	 */
	public function _real_escape( $data ) {
		if ( ! is_scalar( $data ) ) {
			return '';
		}

		if ( $this->dbh ) {
			$escaped = mysqli_real_escape_string( $this->dbh, $data );
		} else {
			$class = get_class( $this );

			wp_load_translations_early();
			/* translators: %s: Database access abstraction class, usually wpdb or a class extending wpdb. */
			_doing_it_wrong( $class, sprintf( __( '%s must set a database connection for use with escaping.' ), $class ), '3.6.0' );

			$escaped = addslashes( $data );
		}

		return $this->add_placeholder_escape( $escaped );
	}

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/9fd435aa157ad7053cdcabed879b843342999ffe/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php#L1262-L1290

Maybe that should be added in this plugin too?