diff --git a/src/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php b/src/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
index dc6ea0993c555..9e758b468d91f 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/class-wp-admin-bar.php
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ final protected function _render_item( $node ) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		echo ">{$arrow}{$node->title}";
+		echo '>' . $arrow . wp_kses_normalize_entities( $node->title );
 
 		if ( $has_link ) {
 			echo '</a>';
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/adminbar.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/adminbar.php
index cec80d0cae027..e06e4f213cd0f 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/adminbar.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/adminbar.php
@@ -267,6 +267,25 @@ public function test_admin_bar_with_tabindex_meta( $node_data, $expected_html )
 		$this->assertStringContainsString( $expected_html, $admin_bar_html );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @ticket 62545
+	 */
+	public function test_admin_bar_normalizes_title_entities_without_escaping_html() {
+		$admin_bar = new WP_Admin_Bar();
+		$admin_bar->add_node(
+			array(
+				'id'    => 'test-node',
+				'title' => '<span class="ab-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>This & that',
+				'href'  => 'https://example.org',
+			)
+		);
+
+		$admin_bar_html = get_echo( array( $admin_bar, 'render' ) );
+
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<span class="ab-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>This &amp; that', $admin_bar_html );
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( '&lt;span class=&quot;ab-icon&quot;', $admin_bar_html );
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Data provider for test_admin_bar_with_tabindex_meta().
 	 *