Exempt people from the allowed tags visibility check

Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Item/BaseItemRepository.QueryBuilding.cs

@@ -447,6 +447,7 @@ public sealed partial class BaseItemRepository
         if (filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Length > 0)
         {
             var includeTags = filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Select(e => e.GetCleanValue()).ToArray();
+            var personTypeName = _itemTypeLookup.BaseItemKindNames[BaseItemKind.Person];
             var allowedTagItemIds = context.ItemValuesMap
                 .Where(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && includeTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
                 .Select(f => f.ItemId);
@@ -455,7 +456,10 @@ public sealed partial class BaseItemRepository
                 allowedTagItemIds.Contains(e.Id)
                 || (e.SeriesId.HasValue && allowedTagItemIds.Contains(e.SeriesId.Value))
                 || e.Parents!.Any(p => allowedTagItemIds.Contains(p.ParentItemId))
-                || (e.TopParentId.HasValue && allowedTagItemIds.Contains(e.TopParentId.Value)));
+                || (e.TopParentId.HasValue && allowedTagItemIds.Contains(e.TopParentId.Value))
+
+                // People don't carry the tags of the media they appear in and would never match
+                || e.Type == personTypeName);
         }
 
         // Exclude alternate versions (have PrimaryVersionId set) and owned non-extra items.

Jellyfin.Server.Implementations/Item/BaseItemRepository.TranslateQuery.cs

@@ -1084,6 +1084,7 @@ public sealed partial class BaseItemRepository
         {
             var includeTags = filter.IncludeInheritedTags.Select(e => e.GetCleanValue()).ToArray();
             var isPlaylistOnlyQuery = includeTypes.Length == 1 && includeTypes.FirstOrDefault() == BaseItemKind.Playlist;
+            var personTypeName = _itemTypeLookup.BaseItemKindNames[BaseItemKind.Person];
             var allowedTagItemIds = context.ItemValuesMap
                 .Where(f => f.ItemValue.Type == ItemValueType.Tags && includeTags.Contains(f.ItemValue.CleanValue))
                 .Select(f => f.ItemId);
@@ -1094,6 +1095,9 @@ public sealed partial class BaseItemRepository
                 || e.Parents!.Any(p => allowedTagItemIds.Contains(p.ParentItemId))
                 || (e.TopParentId.HasValue && allowedTagItemIds.Contains(e.TopParentId.Value))
 
+                // People don't carry the tags of the media they appear in and would never match
+                || e.Type == personTypeName
+
                 // A playlist should be accessible to its owner regardless of allowed tags
                 || (isPlaylistOnlyQuery && e.Data!.Contains($"OwnerUserId\":\"{filter.User!.Id:N}\"")));
         }

MediaBrowser.Controller/Entities/Person.cs

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+using Jellyfin.Database.Implementations.Entities;
 using Jellyfin.Extensions;
 using MediaBrowser.Controller.Providers;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
@@ -75,6 +76,16 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Controller.Entities
             return false;
         }
 
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// People don't carry the tags of the media they appear in, so the allowed tags check
+        /// is skipped for them; otherwise no person would be visible to users with allowed tags configured.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public override bool IsVisible(User user, bool skipAllowedTagsCheck = false)
+        {
+            return base.IsVisible(user, true);
+        }
+
         public override bool IsSaveLocalMetadataEnabled()
         {
             return true;