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Guarded attribute assignment

Reports assignments to guarded attributes in Laravel Eloquent models.

Laravel Eloquent models have a $fillable and $guarded property that control mass assignment of specified attributes. This inspection detects when you try to directly assign values to guarded attributes, which may lead to security vulnerabilities.

To fix this:

  • Remove the attribute from the $guarded array if it should be mass assignable

  • Use setAttribute() method instead of direct assignment

  • Add the attribute to the $fillable array instead of $guarded

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

LaravelEloquentGuardedAttributeAssignmentInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Laravel Idea

Inspection ID: LaravelEloquentGuardedAttributeAssignmentInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection LaravelEloquentGuardedAttributeAssignmentInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

PhpStorm 2025.3, Qodana for PHP 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025