PHP encrypt function breaks in version 4 calls
Calling the encryption function from PHP after version 4 returns escaped HTML, drops the link for address-only text, and errors as undefined.
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3 public reports · first reported 6 August 2025 · last reported 14 January 2026
What's going wrong
Developers who call the plugin's encryption function directly from theme code or custom templates say the behavior changed after version 4.
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