[core] Adjust db::escapeString to emulate strlen

[WinterSolstice8]

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What does this pull request do?

Apparently, escaped strings were making it in with garbage characters past a null terminator that the old code was not doing.
Partially solves #6518

Steps to test these changes

Change password, login, no problems