Html special chars in profile fields=errors (Was: Signature impossible to edit)

[a10]

Think I posted about that long ago. Preview shows new entries correctly, but changes does not stick. Delete \ changes \ adding anything, always reverts to what was originally entered years ago. (Yes, I do click change profile :O)

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Works fine for me.

[a10]

Found it, funny bug.

The error text was:
"The following errors occurred when trying to save your profile:
HTML tags are not allowed"

But no html tags in my signature. Did some random testing... original "Norway & France" in location was changed to "Norway and France", fixed! Can recreate, any "&" in location = HTML tags are not allowed and no changes saved. Can use & in signature, but not in location.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Sounds like a bug, similar to this https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/7660 but based on the discussion on it - not the same? @shawnb61 ?

[Arantor]

Side bug: the above link is mangled by quotes being added to it somewhere along the line.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Side bug: the above link is mangled by quotes being added to it somewhere along the line.

That's a bug with modified code on this site here only, I've brought this up within team.

[shawnb61]

Very similar issue, yes, just different characters are triggering it now.  Issue exists in 2.1 & 3.0.

Confirmed & logged:
https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF/issues/8308

Note the signature is OK (see mine). 

This is specific to custom field edits, not the signature, so the subject of this thread appears to be incorrect.  Also, this issue is not specific to this forum.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Thank you for looking in to it!

[shawnb61]

(I suspect this was stickied in error?)

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Yes, I believe so.