wp-includes/PHPMailer/PHPMailer.php:5147If a string contains any "special" characters, double-quote the name, and escape any double quotes with a backslash.
$strstringstring public static function quotedString($str) { if (preg_match('/[ ()<>@,;:"\/\[\]?=]/', $str)) { //If the string contains any of these chars, it must be double-quoted //and any double quotes must be escaped with a backslash return '"' . str_replace('"', '\\"', $str) . '"'; } //Return the string untouched, it doesn't need quoting return $str; }Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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