From 0d613474002cdfe60c38ba07a628e7738fd01531 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 18:56:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] XML-RPC: Correctly return deletion error message in
 `wp_xmlrpc_server::wp_deleteTerm()`.

This ensures that the correct variable is used to return the `WP_Error` message from the `wp_delete_term()` attempt.

Follow-up to [20137].

Props justlevine.
See #63268.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@60175


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@59511 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php | 2 +-
 wp-includes/version.php                | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php b/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
index c5a4eba66e..665fc72b0c 100644
--- a/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
+++ b/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php
@@ -2345,7 +2345,7 @@ class wp_xmlrpc_server extends IXR_Server {
 		$result = wp_delete_term( $term_id, $taxonomy->name );
 
 		if ( is_wp_error( $result ) ) {
-			return new IXR_Error( 500, $term->get_error_message() );
+			return new IXR_Error( 500, $result->get_error_message() );
 		}
 
 		if ( ! $result ) {
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 6a34c51942..2e7c5e0fa8 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '6.9-alpha-60174';
+$wp_version = '6.9-alpha-60175';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.