diff --git a/opac/opac-memberentry.pl b/opac/opac-memberentry.pl
index 19db974ecb..f32a256c45 100755
--- a/opac/opac-memberentry.pl
+++ b/opac/opac-memberentry.pl
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ sub ParseCgiForBorrower {
     foreach ( $cgi->param ) {
         if ( $_ =~ '^borrower_' ) {
             my ($key) = substr( $_, 9 );
-            $borrower{$key} = HTML::Entities::encode( $scrubber->scrub( $cgi->param($_) ) );
+            $borrower{$key} = HTML::Entities::encode( $scrubber->scrub( scalar $cgi->param($_) ) );
         }
     }