Malformed Comment URLs

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#1

Hi guys,

I just got a notification from SEMrush that many (all?) of my comments have malformed URLs for the comment author.

I checked and, indeed, they are very strange and also don’t work. Here is an example, including the “cite” tag that is the parent element:

<cite class="x-comment-author" itemprop="author"><a href="http://<i class='x-framework-icon x-comment-author-icon' data-x-icon-s='&#xf35d;' aria-hidden=true></i><span>acrocosm</span>.net" class="url" rel="ugc external nofollow"><i class='x-framework-icon x-comment-author-icon' data-x-icon-s='&#xf35d;' aria-hidden=true></i><span>acrocosm</span></a></cite>

Indeed, this is the literal href:

http://<i class='x-framework-icon x-comment-author-icon' data-x-icon-s='&#xf35d;' aria-hidden=true></i><span>acrocosm</span>.net

What’s interesting is that it doesn’t affect ALL URLs of this nature. It only seems to affect it when the comment submitter has entered a URL, and their comment is a parent comment with at least one reply.

I found this to be the case even with the stock parent theme. I don’t believe I have any plugins or code that modifies this at all, though it’s possible.

Do you know what’s causing this? I’ll share the URL in a private note.

#2

Hey @brianjohnsondesign,

Thanks for writing in! Please do check the user profile. It seems that the link URL for his profile is broken and this may have caused the issue. We can thoroughly check this if we can log in to the site. You can create a secure note in your next reply with the following info:
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