diff --git a/lib/plugins/plugin/admin.php b/lib/plugins/plugin/admin.php
index 2f7b837f940cfb4e0c34b27d5acbb350751fafc4..5b284f539d4f8972b230e8cc473bebd09c3017fb 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/plugin/admin.php
+++ b/lib/plugins/plugin/admin.php
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ class ap_manage {
 
         // simple output filter, make html entities safe and convert new lines to <br />
         function out($text) {
-            return str_replace("\n",'<br />',htmlentities($text));
+            return str_replace("\n",'<br />',htmlspecialchars($text));
         }
 
     }