diff --git a/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunction.php b/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunction.php
index 89b72ec49..4dbc436b0 100644
--- a/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunction.php
+++ b/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunction.php
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ public function __construct(
 	) {
 	}
 
-	public function handle( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ): string {
+	/**
+	 * @return array{0: string, noparse: true, isHTML: true}
+	 */
+	public function handle( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ): array {
 		try {
 			$result = $this->queryService->execute(
 				new Neo4jQueryRequest(
@@ -42,12 +45,31 @@ public function handle( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ): string {
 		return $this->formatResult( $json );
 	}
 
-	private function formatResult( string $json ): string {
-		return '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>' . htmlspecialchars( $json ) . '</pre></div>';
+	/**
+	 * @return array{0: string, noparse: true, isHTML: true}
+	 */
+	private function formatResult( string $json ): array {
+		return $this->asHtml( '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>' . htmlspecialchars( $json ) . '</pre></div>' );
 	}
 
-	private function formatError( string $message ): string {
-		return '<div class="error">' . htmlspecialchars( $message ) . '</div>';
+	/**
+	 * @return array{0: string, noparse: true, isHTML: true}
+	 */
+	private function formatError( string $message ): array {
+		return $this->asHtml( '<div class="error">' . htmlspecialchars( $message ) . '</div>' );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Hands the HTML to the parser as HTML rather than wikitext. Without this the text is parsed as
+	 * wikitext, which autolinks any URL a returned value happens to hold: the trailing quote of the
+	 * URL is swallowed into the link and percent-encoded, leaving invalid JSON with anchors in it.
+	 * Error detail needs the same treatment, as the store's message echoes the offending query,
+	 * which can itself contain a URL.
+	 *
+	 * @return array{0: string, noparse: true, isHTML: true}
+	 */
+	private function asHtml( string $html ): array {
+		return [ $html, 'noparse' => true, 'isHTML' => true ];
 	}
 
 }
diff --git a/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/Neo4jPlugin.php b/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/Neo4jPlugin.php
index 8297306f5..dcda6e167 100644
--- a/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/Neo4jPlugin.php
+++ b/src/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/Neo4jPlugin.php
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public function registerParserFunctions( Parser $parser ): void {
 
 		$parser->setFunctionHook(
 			'cypher_raw',
-			static function ( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ) use ( $queryService ): string {
+			static function ( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ) use ( $queryService ): array {
 				return ( new CypherRawParserFunction( $queryService ) )->handle( $parser, $cypherQuery );
 			}
 		);
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionParsingTest.php b/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionParsingTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c6917eac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionParsingTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+<?php
+
+declare( strict_types = 1 );
+
+namespace ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\Tests\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\EntryPoints\ParserFunction;
+
+use Laudis\Neo4j\Databags\SummarizedResult;
+use Laudis\Neo4j\Types\CypherMap;
+use MediaWiki\Parser\Parser;
+use MediaWiki\Parser\ParserOptions;
+use MediaWiki\Title\Title;
+use MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase;
+use ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\Application\KeywordCypherQueryValidator;
+use ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\Application\Neo4jQueryService;
+use ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\Application\Neo4jReadQueryEngine;
+use ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\EntryPoints\ParserFunction\CypherRawParserFunction;
+use ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\Persistence\Neo4jResultNormalizer;
+
+/**
+ * What a reader ends up with, rather than what the parser function returns: the corruption this
+ * guards against happens in MediaWiki's parser, after the function has handed its text back, so it
+ * is invisible to a test that only inspects the return value.
+ *
+ * @covers \ProfessionalWiki\NeoWiki\GraphDatabasePlugins\Neo4j\EntryPoints\ParserFunction\CypherRawParserFunction
+ * @group Database
+ */
+class CypherRawParserFunctionParsingTest extends MediaWikiIntegrationTestCase {
+
+	private const string WEBSITE = 'https://www.rijksmuseum.nl';
+
+	private function parseCypherRaw(): string {
+		$parser = $this->getServiceContainer()->getParserFactory()->create();
+		$queryService = $this->queryServiceReturningWebsite();
+
+		$parser->setFunctionHook(
+			'cypher_raw',
+			static function ( Parser $parser, string $cypherQuery ) use ( $queryService ): string|array {
+				return ( new CypherRawParserFunction( $queryService ) )->handle( $parser, $cypherQuery );
+			}
+		);
+
+		return $parser->parse(
+			'{{#cypher_raw: MATCH (m:Museum) RETURN m.Website AS site }}',
+			Title::makeTitle( NS_MAIN, 'CypherRawParsingTest' ),
+			ParserOptions::newFromAnon()
+		)->getText();
+	}
+
+	private function queryServiceReturningWebsite(): Neo4jQueryService {
+		// SummarizedResult takes its summary by reference, so it needs a variable.
+		$summary = null;
+
+		$queryEngine = $this->createMock( Neo4jReadQueryEngine::class );
+		$queryEngine->method( 'runReadQuery' )->willReturn(
+			new SummarizedResult( $summary, [ new CypherMap( [ 'site' => self::WEBSITE ] ) ] )
+		);
+
+		return new Neo4jQueryService(
+			$queryEngine,
+			new KeywordCypherQueryValidator(),
+			new Neo4jResultNormalizer(),
+		);
+	}
+
+	public function testUrlValueSurvivesParsingUnchanged(): void {
+		$html = html_entity_decode( $this->parseCypherRaw() );
+
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '"site": "' . self::WEBSITE . '"', $html );
+	}
+
+	public function testUrlsAreNotTurnedIntoLinks(): void {
+		$html = $this->parseCypherRaw();
+
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( '<a ', $html );
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( '%22', $html );
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionTest.php b/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionTest.php
index 9be38ec2b..55a5a499a 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionTest.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/GraphDatabasePlugins/Neo4j/EntryPoints/ParserFunction/CypherRawParserFunctionTest.php
@@ -88,12 +88,21 @@ private function createParserFunction(
 		);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * The HTML the parser function hands back, from either its result or its error shape.
+	 *
+	 * @param array{0: string, noparse: true, isHTML: true} $result
+	 */
+	private function html( array $result ): string {
+		return $result[0];
+	}
+
 	public function testEmptyQueryShowsLocalizedError(): void {
 		$parserFunction = $this->createParserFunction( $this->createDummyQueryEngine() );
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), '' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-empty-query]', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-empty-query]', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testWriteQueryShowsLocalizedError(): void {
@@ -101,7 +110,7 @@ public function testWriteQueryShowsLocalizedError(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), "CREATE (n:Person {name: 'Alice'})" );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-write-query]', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-write-query]', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testEngineFailureShowsLocalizedBackendError(): void {
@@ -111,7 +120,7 @@ public function testEngineFailureShowsLocalizedBackendError(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n) RETURN n' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-backend-unavailable]', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-backend-unavailable]', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testSyntaxErrorForwardsNeo4jDetailToLocalizedMessage(): void {
@@ -125,8 +134,8 @@ public function testSyntaxErrorForwardsNeo4jDetailToLocalizedMessage(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n) RETURN x' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-syntax|', $result );
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Invalid input near RETURN', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-syntax|', $this->html( $result ) );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Invalid input near RETURN', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testValidatorFailureShowsLocalizedBackendError(): void {
@@ -140,7 +149,7 @@ public function queryIsAllowed( string $cypher ): bool {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n) RETURN n' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-backend-unavailable]', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '[neowiki-cypher-error-backend-unavailable]', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testValidReadQueryReturnsFormattedResult(): void {
@@ -153,9 +162,9 @@ public function testValidReadQueryReturnsFormattedResult(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n:Person) RETURN n' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>', $result );
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Alice', $result );
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Bob', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>', $this->html( $result ) );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Alice', $this->html( $result ) );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'Bob', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testTrimWhitespaceFromQuery(): void {
@@ -163,7 +172,7 @@ public function testTrimWhitespaceFromQuery(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), '  MATCH (n) RETURN n  ' );
 
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>', $result );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<div class="mw-neowiki-cypher-result"><pre>', $this->html( $result ) );
 	}
 
 	public function testOutputIsHTMLEscaped(): void {
@@ -175,8 +184,42 @@ public function testOutputIsHTMLEscaped(): void {
 
 		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n) RETURN n' );
 
-		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( '<script>alert', $result );
-		$this->assertStringContainsString( '&lt;script&gt;', $result );
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( '<script>alert', $this->html( $result ) );
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '&lt;script&gt;', $this->html( $result ) );
+	}
+
+	public function testResultIsArmouredAgainstWikitextTransformation(): void {
+		$parserFunction = $this->createParserFunction(
+			$this->createQueryEngineWithData( [ [ 'site' => 'https://example.com' ] ] )
+		);
+
+		$result = $parserFunction->handle( $this->createParser(), 'MATCH (n) RETURN n.site AS site' );
+
+		$this->assertIsArray( $result, 'Expected an isHTML array so the parser leaves the JSON alone.' );
+		$this->assertTrue( $result['isHTML'] );
+		$this->assertTrue( $result['noparse'] );
+	}
+
+	public function testErrorIsArmouredAgainstWikitextTransformation(): void {
+		$neo4jException = new Neo4jException( [
+			Neo4jError::fromMessageAndCode(
+				'Neo.ClientError.Statement.SyntaxError',
+				"Invalid input near 'https://example.com'"
+			),
+		] );
+
+		$parserFunction = $this->createParserFunction(
+			$this->createQueryEngineWithException( $neo4jException )
+		);
+
+		$result = $parserFunction->handle(
+			$this->createParser(),
+			"MATCH (n) WHERE n.site = 'https://example.com' RETURN n"
+		);
+
+		$this->assertIsArray( $result, 'Error detail echoes the query, which can carry a URL, so it needs the same armour.' );
+		$this->assertTrue( $result['isHTML'] );
+		$this->assertTrue( $result['noparse'] );
 	}
 
 }