diff --git a/changelog/11842.bugfix.rst b/changelog/11842.bugfix.rst
index 9ca0a8d8d..3a11b110f 100644
--- a/changelog/11842.bugfix.rst
+++ b/changelog/11842.bugfix.rst
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Properly escape the ``reason`` of a :ref:`skipif <pytest.mark.skipif ref>` mark when writing JUnit XML files.
+Properly escape the ``reason`` of a :ref:`skip <pytest.mark.skip ref>` mark when writing JUnit XML files.
diff --git a/testing/test_junitxml.py b/testing/test_junitxml.py
index fa2b34ff1..48a9c263e 100644
--- a/testing/test_junitxml.py
+++ b/testing/test_junitxml.py
@@ -1654,6 +1654,7 @@ def test_escaped_skipreason_issue3533(
 
 
 def test_bin_escaped_skipreason(pytester: Pytester, run_and_parse: RunAndParse) -> None:
+    """Special characters are skipped from mark.skip reason (#11842)."""
     pytester.makepyfile(
         """
         import pytest