chore: defense-in-depth against script escapes #17479
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This is real belt-and-braces stuff — it applies to dev-only code that doesn't involve user input — but it popped up in a recent review and there's no harm in buttoning it up against any future changes.
Essentially, by replacing
</with<\u002fwe make it impossible for this code to inject something like the following into your<head>(which again, to be clear, cannot happen today anyway so this is not a vulnerability):