UPSTREAM FIX

magento2-40481: Store switch error message not showing until a later POST request

Community fix magento2-40481 merged into magento/magento2 on 2026-04-07, released in 2.4.9; applies cleanly to 33 releases from 2.4.6 to 2.4.8-p5.

Fixes the store switch error message not showing until a later POST request edited

Pull request title
Error Message is not rendered for GET request
Pull request
magento/magento2#40481
Issues
#40411 human
Author
@rogerdz
Merged
2026-04-07
Fixed in
2.4.9
Reported on
2.4.8-p3
Categories
—
Components
magento/module-store

Labels

Area
SEO / Metadata
Component
Url
Priority
P2
Severity
—
Reported on (labels)
2.4.8-p3

Issue

Title and steps come from the upstream issue and pull request.

Description

- No error message is displayed immediately
- If you add any product to the cart (or run any other POST request), only then the "wrong store" error message appear

Steps to reproduce

1. Open MAGENTO.URL/stores/store/switchaction

Expected result

- "The store that was requested wasn't found. Verify the store and try again." error message is displayed immediatelly

Actual result

- No error message is displayed immediately
- If you add any product to the cart (or run any other POST request), only then the "wrong store" error message appear

Taken from the upstream issue.

Code match per tag

Each tag was checked with git apply --check against that tag's files. A clean match means the change applies; it is not a test result. Tags that already contain the fix are marked.

LineCode match per tagTests
2.4.6
2.4.6 clean 2.4.6-p1 clean 2.4.6-p2 clean 2.4.6-p3 clean 2.4.6-p4 clean 2.4.6-p5 clean 2.4.6-p6 clean 2.4.6-p7 clean 2.4.6-p8 clean 2.4.6-p9 clean 2.4.6-p10 clean 2.4.6-p11 clean 2.4.6-p12 clean 2.4.6-p13 clean 2.4.6-p14 clean 2.4.6-p15 clean
2.4.6: no test data 2.4.6-p1: no test data 2.4.6-p2: no test data 2.4.6-p3: no test data 2.4.6-p4: no test data 2.4.6-p5: no test data 2.4.6-p6: no test data 2.4.6-p7: no test data 2.4.6-p8: no test data 2.4.6-p9: no test data 2.4.6-p10: no test data 2.4.6-p11: no test data 2.4.6-p12: no test data 2.4.6-p13: no test data 2.4.6-p14: no test data 2.4.6-p15: no test data
2.4.7
2.4.7 clean 2.4.7-p1 clean 2.4.7-p2 clean 2.4.7-p3 clean 2.4.7-p4 clean 2.4.7-p5 clean 2.4.7-p6 clean 2.4.7-p7 clean 2.4.7-p8 clean 2.4.7-p9 clean 2.4.7-p10 clean
2.4.7: no test data 2.4.7-p1: no test data 2.4.7-p2: no test data 2.4.7-p3: no test data 2.4.7-p4: no test data 2.4.7-p5: no test data 2.4.7-p6: no test data 2.4.7-p7: no test data 2.4.7-p8: no test data 2.4.7-p9: no test data 2.4.7-p10: no test data
2.4.8
2.4.8 clean 2.4.8-p1 clean 2.4.8-p2 clean 2.4.8-p3 clean 2.4.8-p4 clean 2.4.8-p5 clean
2.4.8: no test data 2.4.8-p1: no test data 2.4.8-p2: no test data 2.4.8-p3: no test data 2.4.8-p4: no test data 2.4.8-p5: no test data
2.4.9
2.4.9 conflictcontains the fix
2.4.9: no test data

Triage

Model @cf/cloudflare/clef. Probability this is a bug fix: 96.4%. Probability it is security relevant: 30.0%.

Show the model's answers and probabilities
QuestionAnswerProbabilitiesConfidence
Change kindbugfixbugfix 95.8%, refactor 1.6%, feature 1.1%, tests_only 0.5%, dependency 0.5%, docs_only 0.4%90.3%
Areafrontendfrontend 41.0%, framework 23.6%, other 16.7%15.4%
Reported version2.4.8-p32.4.8-p3 60.3%, 2.4.8 3.6%, 2.4.8-p2 2.7%36.0%
Scope0.76 of 21 47.5%, 0 38.1%, 2 14.4%8.8%
Risk0.47 of 20 58.3%, 1 36.2%, 2 5.5%21.1%
Worth backporting1.35 of 22 52.8%, 1 29.7%, 0 17.5%9.7%

Download

For cweagans/composer-patches, choose a version below and download the bundle. Copy its magento2-40481/ folder into patches/composer/, merge composer.patches.json into composer.json, then run composer install. Test files are always removed; paths are relative to each package root, using the default -p1 level.

Packages (1): magento/module-store
Bundle README (what the ZIP ships)
# magento2-40481

Community fix merged upstream into magento/magento2, adapted by magento.watch.
This is not a patch published by Adobe.

Pull request: https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/40481
Issue: https://github.com/magento/magento2/issues/40411
Author: @rogerdz
Source commit: ce13fd6500671dbf57e4b8daea6d976b0286b517
Modifications: test files and documentation removed, paths rewritten relative to each Composer package.
Licence: OSL-3.0 / AFL-3.0, as the original Magento Open Source code.
Maintainer: Łukasz Bajsarowicz (@lbajsarowicz)

Licence: Magento Open Source code under OSL-3.0 and AFL-3.0. The bundle carries the original author, source commit and the list of modifications.

Sources

Łukasz Bajsarowicz
Built by

Łukasz Bajsarowicz, e-commerce architect

Magento and Adobe Commerce architecture, upgrades, performance and audits for merchants and agencies since 2015; magento.watch is the tooling I use on those projects.

Open source, maintained on weekends.