wp-cli/wp-cli — pull request #806 by scribu (2013-11-29 21:53:41+00:00)
Title: Passwords incorrectly are getting HTML-escaped

If you pass `&` (or, I will speculate, `<` and `>` as well) as characters of the DB password to `wp core config`, those HTML-sensitive characters get escaped to `&` (and other HTML entities respectively) incorrectly.