Issue Summary

While the project name from Jira contains any of the special characters (ex: "<>&), it will be displayed incorrectly via Jira Issue/Filter on the Confluence page. 

This is reproducible on Data Center: (yes)

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Confluence, and Jira, and setup the application links between Confluence and Jira. 
2. On the Jira side:
   1. Create a Jira project with a special character (ex: &) as the project name (ex: A&B).
   2. Create one or several sample issues in the project. 
3. On the Confluence side:
   1. Create a new page
   2. Insert a Jira Issue/Filter macro. 
   3. In the search area, search the newly created project (ex:  project="AB"). 
   4. In the Display options, add Project as a column to display. 
   5. Click the Insert button to insert the macro and the Save button to save the page to display the result on the Confluence page. 

Please refer to the screen video about how to reproduce the issue. 

Steps_to_reproduce.mov

Expected Results

In the Project column, it should display A&B as the project name.

Actual Results

In the Project column, it displays the project name as the screenshot below.

A&B

Please refer to the mapping table below while using the affected character:

" becomes "
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &gt;
& becomes &amp;

Workaround

Currently, there is no known workaround for this behavior to display A&B. But the Jira Project Name can be changed to avoid using these characters as the steps below:

1. On Jira, navigate to Projects > View All Projects > select the affected project (ex: A&B)
2. Click Project settings as a wheel icon > Details 
3. In the Name field, change the Project Name as you desired (ex: A and B)