+ sign disappears when hitting save on a product

[Mahomed Dawood]

Hi Guys

When adding a + sign to my product description or name and after hitting save on the admin change , the plus sign disappears , any idea on how i could allow it to be saved with the + sign in the name and description

Where can i make that code change ?

[Basara]

Hello.

Are you working in the visual editor?

[Mahomed Dawood]

Hi

Yes I am on the catalog page within the product

if I add a + sign to my product name , Description etc after I hit save it goes back to the name without the "+" sign in the name

eg Test Product 1B +

Hit save

Result

Test Product 1B

[Basara]

Hello.
Some symbols are filtered when saved to the database to prevent insecure code to execute.

[Mahomed Dawood]

Is there a way to change this filter in the code ?

[abolabo]

Switch to html-mode of editor and replace + with + html entity.
Save and check on storefront.

[Mahomed Dawood]

Hi

Please note that this affects product name also , whereby the "+" sign dissapears when hitting save

[Mahomed Dawood]

Hello.
Some symbols are filtered when saved to the database to prevent insecure code to execute.

Hi

So i figured out what was wrong

Abantecart recently fixed a xss vulnerability which I logged

Topic
https://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,9394.msg37087.html#msg37087

Fix
https://github.com/abantecart/abantecart-src/issues/1513

$data = htmlspecialchars(urldecode($data), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

URL Decode was causing the special character "+" to turn into a whitespace

So I basically changed it to :
$data = htmlspecialchars(rawurldecode($data), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');  and it worked again

Please advise if this was the right approach ?