From d0e8b81cd8c43f884ceb234a56f702479ae512a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:05:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Users: Escape `get_author_posts_url()` link in
 `wp_list_authors()`.

This is consistent with `get_the_author_posts_link()`.

Props chintan1896.
Fixes #50698.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@51190 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 src/wp-includes/author-template.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/wp-includes/author-template.php b/src/wp-includes/author-template.php
index ddfa202ebf..2911366f03 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/author-template.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/author-template.php
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ function wp_list_authors( $args = '' ) {
 
 		$link = sprintf(
 			'<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a>',
-			get_author_posts_url( $author->ID, $author->user_nicename ),
+			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( $author->ID, $author->user_nicename ) ),
 			/* translators: %s: Author's display name. */
 			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Posts by %s' ), $author->display_name ) ),
 			$name