From ec3b35c18c54aa160557a1519658ceecaf1948e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: salvatorecorsi <86927009+salvatorecorsi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:12:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Administration: Deduplicate Custom Fields dropdown options

---
 src/wp-admin/includes/template.php            |  1 +
 .../phpunit/tests/admin/includesTemplate.php  | 39 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php b/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php
index c4496dea3d403..830b564b91422 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/includes/template.php
@@ -734,6 +734,7 @@ function meta_form( $post = null ) {
 	}
 
 	if ( $keys ) {
+		$keys = array_unique( $keys );
 		natcasesort( $keys );
 	}
 	?>
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/admin/includesTemplate.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/admin/includesTemplate.php
index 6e8c9461c7e61..92dfcd4f43248 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/admin/includesTemplate.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/admin/includesTemplate.php
@@ -105,6 +105,45 @@ public function test_get_inline_data_contains_term_if_show_ui_is_false_but_show_
 		$this->expectOutputRegex( '/<div class="tags_input" id="wptests_tax_1_' . $post->ID . '">Test<\/div>/' );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @ticket 54339
+	 *
+	 * @covers ::meta_form
+	 */
+	public function test_meta_form_shows_each_filtered_key_once() {
+		wp_set_current_user( self::$editor_id );
+		$post = self::factory()->post->create_and_get();
+
+		add_filter(
+			'postmeta_form_keys',
+			static function () {
+				return array( 'item10', 'CaseKey', 'shared', '_protected' );
+			}
+		);
+		add_filter(
+			'postmeta_form_keys',
+			static function ( $keys ) {
+				return array_merge( $keys, array( 'shared', 'item2', 'casekey', 'denied' ) );
+			},
+			20
+		);
+		add_filter( 'auth_post_meta_denied', '__return_false' );
+
+		ob_start();
+		meta_form( $post );
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$processor = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $output );
+		$keys      = array();
+		while ( $processor->next_tag( 'OPTION' ) ) {
+			$keys[] = $processor->get_attribute( 'value' );
+		}
+
+		$this->assertContains( 'CaseKey', $keys );
+		$this->assertContains( 'casekey', $keys );
+		$this->assertSame( array( '#none#', 'casekey', 'casekey', 'item2', 'item10', 'shared' ), array_map( 'strtolower', $keys ) );
+	}
+
 	public function test_add_meta_box() {
 		global $wp_meta_boxes;