diff --git a/components/src/status_im/ui/components/react.cljs b/components/src/status_im/ui/components/react.cljs
index 1f0a179535..e7445c6fbc 100644
--- a/components/src/status_im/ui/components/react.cljs
+++ b/components/src/status_im/ui/components/react.cljs
@@ -92,11 +92,17 @@
     (vec (map string/upper-case ts))
     ts))
 
+(defn escape-html [text]
+  (if (and platform/desktop? (string? text))
+    (clojure.string/escape text {\< "&lt;", \> "&gt;", \& "&amp;"})
+   text))
+
 (defn text
   ([t]
-   [text-class t])
+   [text-class (escape-html t)])
   ([opts t & ts]
    (->> (conj ts t)
+        (map escape-html)
         (transform-to-uppercase opts)
         (concat [text-class (add-font-style :style opts)])
         (vec))))