diff --git a/MathMathML.php b/MathMathML.php
index 64fe5d7da..2dd091f69 100644
--- a/MathMathML.php
+++ b/MathMathML.php
@@ -339,11 +339,10 @@ class MathMathML extends MathRenderer {
 	/**
 	 * Helper function to correct the style information for a
 	 * linked SVG image.
-	 * @param string $svg SVG-image data
 	 * @param string $style current style information to be updated
 	 */
-	public function correctSvgStyle( $svg, &$style ) {
-		if ( preg_match( '/style="([^"]*)"/', $svg, $styles ) ) {
+	public function correctSvgStyle( &$style ) {
+		if ( preg_match( '/style="([^"]*)"/', $this->getSvg(), $styles ) ) {
 			$style .= ' ' . $styles[1]; // merge styles
 			if ( $this->getMathStyle() === 'display' ) {
 				// TODO: Improve style cleaning
@@ -351,7 +350,9 @@ class MathMathML extends MathRenderer {
 					'/margin\-(left|right)\:\s*\d+(\%|in|cm|mm|em|ex|pt|pc|px)\;/', '', $style
 				);
 			}
-			$style = preg_replace( '/position:\s*absolute;\s*left:\s*0px;/', '', $style );
+			$style = trim( preg_replace( '/position:\s*absolute;\s*left:\s*0px;/', '', $style ),
+				"; \t\n\r\0\x0B" ) .'; ';
+
 		}
 		// TODO: Figure out if there is a way to construct
 		// a SVGReader from a string that represents the SVG
@@ -382,7 +383,7 @@ class MathMathML extends MathRenderer {
 			$class = $classOverride;
 		}
 		if ( ! $this->mathoidStyle ) {
-			$this->correctSvgStyle( $this->getSvg(), $this->mathoidStyle );
+			$this->correctSvgStyle( $this->mathoidStyle );
 		}
 		// TODO: move the common styles to the global stylesheet!
 		$style = 'background-image: url(\''. $url .
diff --git a/tests/MathMathMLTest.php b/tests/MathMathMLTest.php
index 3283da5b5..745c449e9 100644
--- a/tests/MathMathMLTest.php
+++ b/tests/MathMathMLTest.php
@@ -120,6 +120,19 @@ class MathMathMLTest extends MediaWikiTestCase {
 		$this->assertContains( '.png', $res );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @covers MathMathML::correctSvgStyle
+	 * @see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132563
+	 */
+	public function testMathMLStyle() {
+		$m = new MathMathML();
+		$m->setSvg( 'style="vertical-align:-.505ex" height="2.843ex" width="28.527ex"' );
+		$style = '';
+		$m->correctSvgStyle( $style );
+		$this->assertEquals( 'vertical-align:-.505ex; height: 2.843ex; width: 28.527ex;', $style );
+		$m->setSvg( 'style=" vertical-align:-.505ex; \n" height="2.843ex" width="28.527ex"' );
+		$this->assertEquals( 'vertical-align:-.505ex; height: 2.843ex; width: 28.527ex;', $style );
+	}
 }
 
 /**