diff --git a/src/support/lstrings.cpp b/src/support/lstrings.cpp
index 7af8aae34e..d4b1ccf5a7 100644
--- a/src/support/lstrings.cpp
+++ b/src/support/lstrings.cpp
@@ -1407,7 +1407,7 @@ docstring bformat(docstring const & fmt, char const * arg1, docstring arg2)
 	LATTEST(contains(fmt, from_ascii("%1$s")));
 	LATTEST(contains(fmt, from_ascii("%2$s")));
 	docstring str = subst(fmt, from_ascii("%1$s"), from_ascii(arg1));
-	str = subst(fmt, from_ascii("%2$s"), arg2);
+	str = subst(str, from_ascii("%2$s"), arg2);
 	return subst(str, from_ascii("%%"), from_ascii("%"));
 }
 
diff --git a/status.21x b/status.21x
index 0522009016..3db8551e17 100644
--- a/status.21x
+++ b/status.21x
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ What's new
 
 * INTERNALS
 
-- Improve thread-safety
+- Improve thread-safety.
+
+- Fix potential bug spotted by cppcheck.
 
 
 * DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION