fix: empty status filter, hidden-field probing, own private posts

Review fix round 2: content-query no longer lets get_posts() fall back
to 'publish' when every requested status is capability-gated out (now
short-circuits to an empty page). Its field filter shares PostPresenter's
hidden-field rule (Pods password type, protected meta) so a hidden key
is rejected like an unknown one instead of reaching the query. Password
fields are now type-checked as strings on write. A user without
edit_private_posts can still query their own private posts when the
query is already author-restricted, matching WordPress core.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01At3V6SjwbMe6eMzVGW3Hs7

src/Integrations/WordPress/Content/ContentQueryAbility.php

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use LIT\MCP\Abilities\Cursor;
 use LIT\MCP\Abilities\Errors;
 use LIT\MCP\Integrations\WordPress\PostGuard;
 use LIT\MCP\Integrations\WordPress\Schema\ContentSchema;
+use LIT\MCP\Integrations\WordPress\Schema\FieldDefinition;
 use WP_Error;
 use WP_Post;
 
@@ -137,8 +138,16 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
             }
         }
 
+        $args = $this->queryArgs($input);
+        if ($args['post_status'] === []) {
+            // Every requested status was gated out by the post type's caps – get_posts()
+            // would otherwise treat an empty post_status as its own default ('publish'),
+            // returning results the caller has no right to see instead of none at all.
+            return ['items' => [], 'next_cursor' => null];
+        }
+
         $limit = Cursor::limit($input['limit'] ?? null);
-        $posts = get_posts(array_merge($this->queryArgs($input), [
+        $posts = get_posts(array_merge($args, [
             'posts_per_page' => $limit + 1,
             'offset' => $offset,
         ]));
@@ -164,9 +173,18 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
         $typeObject = get_post_type_object($postType);
         $caps = is_object($typeObject) && isset($typeObject->cap) ? $typeObject->cap : null;
 
+        // Without edit_others_posts, even a status the user may edit in principle must
+        // stay limited to their own posts – otherwise the query would leak drafts etc.
+        // of other authors that happen to pass the per-status gate below.
+        $restrictedToOwnPosts = ! current_user_can($this->capability($caps, 'edit_others_posts'));
+
         $args = [
             'post_type' => $postType,
-            'post_status' => $this->allowedStatuses((array) ($input['status'] ?? self::STATUSES), $caps),
+            'post_status' => $this->allowedStatuses(
+                (array) ($input['status'] ?? self::STATUSES),
+                $caps,
+                $restrictedToOwnPosts
+            ),
             'orderby' => (string) ($input['orderby'] ?? 'date'),
             'order' => strtoupper((string) ($input['order'] ?? 'desc')),
             'no_found_rows' => true,
@@ -174,10 +192,7 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
             'suppress_filters' => false,
         ];
 
-        // Without edit_others_posts, even a status the user may edit in principle must
-        // stay limited to their own posts – otherwise the query would leak drafts etc.
-        // of other authors that happen to pass the per-status gate below.
-        if (! current_user_can($this->capability($caps, 'edit_others_posts'))) {
+        if ($restrictedToOwnPosts) {
             $args['author'] = get_current_user_id();
         }
 
@@ -243,10 +258,15 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
      * even fetches rows that would only be discarded by the per-post check afterwards
      * (which would otherwise waste a page slot and reveal the post existed).
      *
+     * "private" is the one exception: WordPress lets an author edit their own private
+     * post with just edit_posts, so when the query is already author-restricted to the
+     * current user (no edit_others_posts) their own private posts stay in scope even
+     * without edit_private_posts.
+     *
      * @param list<mixed> $statuses
      * @return list<string>
      */
-    private function allowedStatuses(array $statuses, ?object $caps): array
+    private function allowedStatuses(array $statuses, ?object $caps, bool $restrictedToOwnPosts): array
     {
         $gates = [
             'private' => $this->capability($caps, 'edit_private_posts'),
@@ -256,7 +276,17 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
 
         return array_values(array_filter(
             array_map('strval', $statuses),
-            static fn (string $status): bool => ! isset($gates[$status]) || current_user_can($gates[$status])
+            static function (string $status) use ($gates, $restrictedToOwnPosts): bool {
+                if (! isset($gates[$status])) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                if ($status === 'private' && $restrictedToOwnPosts) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                return current_user_can($gates[$status]);
+            }
         ));
     }
 
@@ -267,7 +297,11 @@ final class ContentQueryAbility implements Ability
 
     private function rejectUnlessKnownField(string $postType, string $key): ?WP_Error
     {
-        $allowed = array_keys($this->schema->fields($postType));
+        $visible = array_filter(
+            $this->schema->fields($postType),
+            static fn (FieldDefinition $field): bool => ! PostPresenter::isHiddenField($field)
+        );
+        $allowed = array_keys($visible);
         if (in_array($key, $allowed, true)) {
             return null;
         }

src/Integrations/WordPress/Content/PostPresenter.php

@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ class PostPresenter
     {
         $result = [];
         foreach ($this->schema->fields((string) $post->post_type) as $key => $field) {
-            if ($this->isHidden($field)) {
+            if (self::isHiddenField($field)) {
                 continue;
             }
 
@@ -158,9 +158,11 @@ class PostPresenter
      * Pods password fields and readonly protected meta (WordPress' own "_"-prefixed
      * internal keys) are never read out via lit-content-get/-query: neither belongs in
      * front of the model, and both are one plugin registration away from leaking secrets
-     * or internal engine state.
+     * or internal engine state. Public and static so ContentQueryAbility can apply the
+     * same rule to its `field` filter – a hidden field must be as unreachable through the
+     * query filter as it is through the fields map, or the filter becomes a probe.
      */
-    private function isHidden(FieldDefinition $field): bool
+    public static function isHiddenField(FieldDefinition $field): bool
     {
         if ($field->type === 'password') {
             return true;