0027099: Inconsistent escape of html entities while editing an issue

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0027099	mantisbt	html	public	2020-07-19 08:18	2020-07-19 08:18

Reporter	loris.nardo	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	2.24.1

Summary	0027099: Inconsistent escape of html entities while editing an issue
Description	If the description of an issue contains raw html entities, they are transformed back into the equivalent characters during the edit of the issue. This can cause the description message to change its meaning especially when the replaced html entities are the less than character and the ampersand character.
Steps To Reproduce	Create an issue with the attached description See the resulting issue Open the edit view for the issue Note that the description text area has different content Save the issue Note that the description of the issue has changed, also note that the less than entity has been eagerly transformed into the less than character. This assume a default configuration for MantisBT
Tags	No tags attached.
Attached Files	description_sample.txt (25 bytes) &lt;b>test&lt;/b> description_sample.txt (25 bytes)