dellsala/Combo-Box-jQuery-Plugin — pull request #8 by kycook (2012-09-17 20:01:34+00:00)
Title: Escape HTML characters in comboxbox options

If you had combobox options that contained HTML characters, such as \test\, it would render the option as _text_ instead of \test\. This is especially dangerous if the combo-box is showing user-inputted values because it could lead to script injection.