Badly escaped HTML results in plain text instead of markup in toast notifications (e.g. "You can't vote for your own post".)

Question

There's an HTML escape bug that's reproducible network-wide.

Also mentioned on Super User, this is not just "ugly", but also causes prevents the link from being clicked, which is more important:

Examples

I believe there could be other notifications of this kind that are also affected.

And apparently i.sstatic.net/ngELh.png just reported on [meta.su] — DavidPostill, Commented Apr 5, 2022 at 18:48
Now also reported on Meta Stack Overflow: "You can't vote twice to delete a post". — Sebastian Simon, Commented Apr 6, 2022 at 3:27
Don't forget you can mark this as the accepted answer by clicking its check mark. (sorry, reposted) — uhoh, Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 0:06
I found this as well over on Workplace SE where I got a message like "You haven't voted on a question in a while, don't forget to" (as opposed to just on answers) - except the apostrophe displayed as the HTML escape... I'm not going to repost, but wanted to note it happens there to — cocomac, Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 4:53
I raised this in Politics and was directed here, so it persists across the estate. — spikey_richie, Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 10:17

Yaakov Ellis · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-07 13:40:35Z

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This is now fixed, as are any other toast notifications that show that are related to voting.

vote confirmation
including html
renders properly

answered Apr 7, 2022 at 13:40

Yaakov EllisStaffMod

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But I can’t still vote for my own post! You have fixed the bug but not the core reason 👺
– nicael
Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 13:49
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@nicael It gets worse. We still can't vote for our own posts several times! Absolutely outrageous! /s
– Zoe - Save the data dump
Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 13:54
Note, that if the same path is used anywhere near the community bulletin, it happens there too.
– Braiam
Commented Apr 7, 2022 at 15:33
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This bug isn't fully fixed, this one is also a toast related to voting.
– Marijn
Commented Oct 17, 2022 at 19:58

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