Title: BUGFIX: og:description needs escaping
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# BUGFIX: og:description needs escaping

 *  [BramNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bramnl/)
 * (@bramnl)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugfix-ogdescription-needs-escaping/)
 * At line 569, the excerpt is echoed without escaping. This needs a htmlspecialchars().
   Here is the fix:
 * social_sharing_toolkit.php
    Line 567-570. (The important line is 569)
 *     ```
       if ($excerpt != '') {
       				echo '
       		<meta property="og:description" content="' . htmlspecialchars($excerpt) . '"/>';
       			} else {
       ```
   
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## Tags

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 * Last reply from: [BramNL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bramnl/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bugfix-ogdescription-needs-escaping/)
 * Status: not resolved