Fix feed authors with escaped html in their name

akirk · Jan 2, 2025 · 2d3f20d · 2d3f20d
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Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-simplepie.php b/feed-parsers/class-feed-parser-simplepie.php
@@ -347,7 +347,10 @@ public function process_items( $items, $url ) {
 			}
 
 			if ( is_object( $item->get_author() ) ) {
-				$feed_item->author = \wp_strip_all_tags( $item->get_author()->name );
+				$feed_item->author = $item->get_author()->name;
+				// Strip HTML tags, even if they are escaped.
+				$feed_item->author = htmlspecialchars_decode( $feed_item->author, ENT_QUOTES | ENT_SUBSTITUTE | ENT_HTML401 );
+				$feed_item->author = \wp_strip_all_tags( $feed_item->author );
 			}
 
 			$feed_item->date         = $item->get_gmdate( 'U' );