From dc512828441c92192156c2b7c5218e1e2200e2f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:06:57 +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.
Built from https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@51190


git-svn-id: http://core.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@50799 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/author-template.php | 2 +-
 wp-includes/version.php         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/author-template.php b/wp-includes/author-template.php
index ddfa202ebf..2911366f03 100644
--- a/wp-includes/author-template.php
+++ b/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
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 83284d315f..583002332d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '5.8-beta2-51189';
+$wp_version = '5.8-beta2-51190';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.