wp-includes/functions.php:742Checks whether serialized data is of string type.
$datastringboolfunction is_serialized_string( $data ) { // if it isn't a string, it isn't a serialized string. if ( ! is_string( $data ) ) { return false; } $data = trim( $data ); if ( strlen( $data ) < 4 ) { return false; } elseif ( ':' !== $data[1] ) { return false; } elseif ( ! str_ends_with( $data, ';' ) ) { return false; } elseif ( 's' !== $data[0] ) { return false; } elseif ( '"' !== substr( $data, -2, 1 ) ) { return false; } else { return true; }}Introduced in 2.0.5. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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