Apply context-aware escaping so WordPress output is safe without corrupting stored data.
Safe WordPress output is a context decision, not a blanket cleanup. Escaping is not a decoration step. It is the boundary where untrusted or changeable data crosses into HTML, an attribute, JavaScript, a URL, or another executable context. OWASP's XSS guidance works because browsers interpret the same characters differently depending on where they land. The string that is harmless as text can become markup inside HTML, an event handler inside an attribute, or executable code inside a script block. Mechanism The mechanism is contextual encoding. A browser does not see "a string"; it sees a string inside a parse mode.…
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