Weird data in the First Name field of a user

July 12, 2010 – 5:00 pm |

Recently a long time friend contacted me because he saw a new user on his site that he did not set up.

The user’s first name looked like the below two screenshots:

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Upon viewing the page source, I saw that WordPress has a safety measure in place to html escape all this content, so it does not actually effect the usability of the website and there was not a massive security breach.

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