diff --git a/core/modules/views_ui/src/ViewEditForm.php b/core/modules/views_ui/src/ViewEditForm.php
index 530a47f..f6c9ae7 100644
--- a/core/modules/views_ui/src/ViewEditForm.php
+++ b/core/modules/views_ui/src/ViewEditForm.php
@@ -1057,6 +1057,9 @@ public function getFormBucket(ViewUI $view, $type, $display) {
       }
 
       $description = Xss::filterAdmin($handler->adminSummary());
+      // We can safely decode the string here, since it will be further escaped
+      // by the url formatter.
+      $description = htmlspecialchars_decode($description);
       $link_text = $field_name . (empty($description) ? '' : " ($description)");
       $link_attributes = array('class' => array('views-ajax-link'));
       if (!empty($field['exclude'])) {