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+import { registerTooltip } from "discourse/lib/tooltip";
+
+// prettier-ignore
+QUnit.module("lib:tooltip", {
+  beforeEach() {
+    fixture().html(
+      "<a class='test-link' data-tooltip='XSS<s onmouseover\=alert(document.domain)>XSS'>test</a>"
+    );
+  }
+});
+
+QUnit.test("it prevents XSS injection", assert => {
+  const $testLink = fixture(".test-link");
+  registerTooltip($testLink);
+  $testLink.click();
+
+  andThen(() => {
+    assert.equal(
+      fixture(".tooltip-content")
+        .html()
+        .trim(),
+      "XSS&lt;s onmouseover=alert(document.domain)&gt;XSS"
+    );
+  });
+});