From 8ebc46893d595f0c0466c2e9b862a2aee0f6bb01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bart Mathijssen <bart@bartmathijssen.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 19:20:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Core: Fix validation for WYSIWYG editors

---
 src/core.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 4674710f4..abd406b9e 100644
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -1032,7 +1032,7 @@ $.extend( $.validator, {
 		// meta-characters that should be escaped in order to be used with JQuery
 		// as a literal part of a name/id or any selector.
 		escapeCssMeta: function( string ) {
-			return string.replace( /([\\!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@\[\]^`{|}~])/g, "\\$1" );
+			return ( string + "" ).replace( /([\\!"#$%&'()*+,./:;<=>?@\[\]^`{|}~])/g, "\\$1" );
 		},
 
 		idOrName: function( element ) {