id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21537,Email address sanitisation mangles valid email addresses,westi,,"If you change your email address to one including an ampersand then we mangle the address with html entities.

For example:
 * This - peter&paul@sitting.in.a.tree.com
 * Becomes - peter&paul@sitting.in.a.tree.com

This is due to the call to {{{wp_filter_kses}}} on {{{pre_user_email'}}} in {{{default-filters.php}}}.

The was added in [5906] for #4546.

I'm not sure if we need kses filtering for emails - if we do which should probably revert this conversion of the & => & afterwards.",defect (bug),new,normal,Awaiting Review,General,3.4.1,normal,,needs-patch 2nd-opinion,westi beau@… yoavf joachim.kudish@… ian_dunn@…