diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/about.tmpl b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/about.tmpl
index 68e196c71c..16f8a55d99 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/about.tmpl
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/en/about.tmpl
@@ -9,23 +9,23 @@ interest).
 <table border=1>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td width=25%>Koha version:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=kohaVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=kohaVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>OS version (from 'uname -a'):</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=osVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=osVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>Perl version:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=perlVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=perlVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>MySQL version:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=mysqlVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=mysqlVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>Apache version:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=apacheVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=apacheVersion></td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 </center>
diff --git a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/es/about.tmpl b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/es/about.tmpl
index bcd1c268d9..5de3fb9003 100644
--- a/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/es/about.tmpl
+++ b/koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/default/es/about.tmpl
@@ -8,23 +8,23 @@
 <table border=1>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td width=25%>versión del Koha:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=kohaVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=kohaVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>versión del SO:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=osVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=osVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>versión de Perl:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=perlVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=perlVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>versión de Mysql:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=mysqlVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=mysqlVersion></td>
   </tr>
   <tr bgcolor="white">
       <td>versión de Apache:</td>
-      <td><TMPL_VAR NAME=apacheVersion></td>
+      <td><TMPL_VAR ESCAPE=HTML NAME=apacheVersion></td>
   </tr>
 </table>
 </center>