> naive developers (and experienced ones that should've know better) just moved onto mysqli_* or PDO and still used string concatenation with raw inputs, instea

> naive developers (and experienced ones that should've know better) just moved onto mysqli_* or PDO and still used string concatenation with raw inputs, instead of learning how to parameterise their queries. True, I stand corrected, I've just checked and Wordpress still does it just like that: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includes/wp-db.php#L2023 https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/master/wp-includ...