Using less than character (<) causes JSON encoding problem

[sdgluck]

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bug

What is the current behavior?

When using the less than character in any of the input fields when configuring a survey the JSON becomes malformed as the character is wrongly encoded as an HTML entity.

What is the expected behavior?

You can use a less than or greater than character.

How would you reproduce the current behavior (if this is a bug)?

We encountered this using the WordPress SurveyJS plugin.

Provide the test code and the tested page URL (if applicable)

Sorry, don't have any repro at the moment.

Specify your

• browser: Chrome
• browser version: 70
• surveyjs platform (angular or react or jquery or knockout or vue): WordPress (Knockout?)
• surveyjs version: SurveyJS version: whatever version the WP plugin uses
• WP plugin version: 1.0.33

[dmitry-kurmanov]

We've fixed the issue (used http://php.net/manual/ru/function.htmlspecialchars-decode.php). Could you please download the latest version of plugin an trying it.