From 398d07fcff5bca16c308fb9d19075f07ee6222ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriel Jenik <gabriel.jenik@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 09:41:47 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed issue #16434: Special characters shown as HTML entities
 in sidebar (#1452)

Dev: Text is flatten. After that. special chars are sent to the sidebar. Tags, which could be formed by special chars re-coded, are not sent.
---
 application/controllers/admin/surveyadmin.php | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/application/controllers/admin/surveyadmin.php b/application/controllers/admin/surveyadmin.php
index 73dfcf20ff1..d04fc2f81cb 100644
--- a/application/controllers/admin/surveyadmin.php
+++ b/application/controllers/admin/surveyadmin.php
@@ -575,7 +575,8 @@ public function getAjaxQuestionGroupArray($surveyid)
                         $questionText = isset($question->questionl10ns[$baselang])
                             ? $question->questionl10ns[$baselang]->question
                             : '';
-                        $curQuestion['question_flat'] = viewHelper::flatEllipsizeText($questionText, true);
+                        $decodedQuestionText = htmlspecialchars_decode(viewHelper::flatEllipsizeText($questionText, true));
+                        $curQuestion['question_flat'] = strip_tags($decodedQuestionText);
                         $curGroup['questions'][] = $curQuestion;
                     }