3.5.0 challenge-desc span not displaying description message text
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Description
**Environment**:
- CTFd Version/Commit: 3.5.0
- Operating System: ubuntu 20.04
- Web Browser and Version: Firefox 104.0
**What happened?**
Challenge description message text is not displayed on the challenge.
**What did you expect to happen?**
plaintext entered into the message box on the challenge creation page be displayed within the challenge-desc span on the associated challenge's page.
**How to reproduce your issue**
Install 3.5.0 on a fresh 20.04 install. run CTFd in a screen session with docker. Connect to server with HTTP. Create a test challenge. Attempt to view the challenge.
**Any associated stack traces or error logs**

Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue on CTFd 3.5.0 using the fresh Ubuntu 20.04 and Docker setup described. Inspect the challenge creation message and the challenge-desc span on the associated challenge page. Done means plaintext entered in the message box is displayed in that span.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- flask, python
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100