Update sanitize_title_with_dashes to handle additional multiplication sign encoding in 'save' context

himanshupathak95 · himanshupathak95 · commit 19dbc162fddd · 2026-02-02T18:45:58.000+05:30
diff --git a/src/wp-includes/formatting.php b/src/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -2285,7 +2285,11 @@ function sanitize_title_with_dashes( $title, $raw_title = '', $context = 'displa
 	$title = preg_replace( '|---([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])---|', '%$1', $title );
 
 	// Convert multiplication sign and times entities to 'x'.
-	$title = str_replace( array( '×', '&times;', '&#215;' ), 'x', $title );
+	$times_replacements = array( '×', '&times;', '&#215;' );
+	if ( 'save' === $context ) {
+		$times_replacements[] = '%c3%97';
+	}
+	$title = str_replace( $times_replacements, 'x', $title );
 
 	if ( wp_is_valid_utf8( $title ) ) {
 		if ( function_exists( 'mb_strtolower' ) ) {
@@ -2382,9 +2386,6 @@ function sanitize_title_with_dashes( $title, $raw_title = '', $context = 'displa
 			'-',
 			$title
 		);
-
-		// Convert &times to 'x'.
-		$title = str_replace( '%c3%97', 'x', $title );
 	}
 
 	// Remove HTML entities.
