In Wordpress version 4.4.2, countdown-widget plugin version 2.5.9, HTML is shown as entities

[Sergei Pachtchenko]

Instead of rendering HTML, the characters are converted to HTML Entities and HTML is rendered as test.

I'm typing

<a href="link">link</a>

as a title.

The string is converted to:

<a href="link">link</a>

which renders the Link useless.