Why is HTML showing in the form validation message?

Question

Here is what is showing when I use server side form validation.
<ul><li>You must select a location </li></ul> Go <a href="javascript:history.back()">back</a> and correct the problem.
Obviously, the HTML tags are not supposed to be shown.  What's going on here?  I just upgraded to CF9 on Linux and this started happening.  Any ideas?

Answer 1

It's a standard CF server-side form validation and looks like this on the form:
<input type="hidden" name="somefield_required" value="some field is a required field">
When they submit the form (and didn't enter something for somefield), the automatic message comes up.  The formatting of the message is messed up on CF9.  I've been using this type of server-side validation for years (probably since CF5) and have never seen this problem before.
Actually, this works fine on another server (CF 9,0,0,251028) but on CF 9,0,1,274733 it is having this issue.  Both are running CF Enterprise on Linux.
Error message is supposed to look like this:
Form entries are incomplete or invalid.
some field is a required field
Go back and correct the problem.
The messed up message looks like this:
Form entries are incomplete or invalid.
<ul><li>some field is a required field</li></ul> Go <a href="javascript:history.back()">back</a> and correct the problem.