Formatting: introduce esc_attr_name() for HTML attribute name sanitization - #12915
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The HTML5 spec allows arbitrarily named attributes (e.g., data-*), but WordPress lacked a dedicated function to escape dynamically generated attribute names. Developers sometimes incorrectly used esc_attr() for this, which only escapes attribute values.
This PR introduces esc_attr_name() in formatting.php to resolve this. It uses a strict allowlist regex ([^a-zA-Z0-9_.:\[\]-]+/u) to strip any characters not explicitly permitted in an HTML attribute name per the HTML5 specification (such as spaces, quotes, control characters, <>, =, etc.).
Trac ticket: #43010
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