diff --git a/modules/blocksearch/blocksearch-top.tpl b/modules/blocksearch/blocksearch-top.tpl
index 43de6b86e..078d2631b 100644
--- a/modules/blocksearch/blocksearch-top.tpl
+++ b/modules/blocksearch/blocksearch-top.tpl
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 		<input type="hidden" name="controller" value="search" />
 		<input type="hidden" name="orderby" value="position" />
 		<input type="hidden" name="orderway" value="desc" />
-		<input class="search_query" type="search" id="search_query_top" name="search_query" placeholder="{l s='Search' mod='blocksearch'}" value="{Tools::htmlentitiesUTF8($search_query)|stripslashes}" />
+		<input class="search_query" type="search" id="search_query_top" name="search_query" placeholder="{l s='Search' mod='blocksearch'}" value="{$search_query|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}" />
 	</form>
 </div>
 {else}
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 			<input type="hidden" name="controller" value="search" />
 			<input type="hidden" name="orderby" value="position" />
 			<input type="hidden" name="orderway" value="desc" />
-			<input class="search_query" type="text" id="search_query_top" name="search_query" value="{Tools::htmlentitiesUTF8($search_query)|stripslashes}" />
+			<input class="search_query" type="text" id="search_query_top" name="search_query" value="{$search_query|escape:'htmlall':'UTF-8'|stripslashes}" />
 			<input type="submit" name="submit_search" value="{l s='Search' mod='blocksearch'}" class="button" />
 		</p>
 	</form>