diff --git a/js/SaveInterface.js b/js/SaveInterface.js
index 8fd7b6357e..424e558458 100644
--- a/js/SaveInterface.js
+++ b/js/SaveInterface.js
@@ -225,6 +225,34 @@ class SaveInterface {
      * @instance
      */
     prepareHTML() {
+        const escapeHTML = value => {
+            if (value === null || value === undefined) return "";
+            return String(value)
+                .replace(/&/g, "&")
+                .replace(/</g, "&lt;")
+                .replace(/>/g, "&gt;")
+                .replace(/\"/g, "&quot;")
+                .replace(/'/g, "&#39;");
+        };
+
+        const sanitizeImageURL = value => {
+            if (value === null || value === undefined) return "";
+            const raw = String(value).trim();
+            if (raw === "") return "";
+
+            const lower = raw.toLowerCase();
+            if (lower.startsWith("data:")) {
+                // Only allow data:image/* to avoid data:text/html, etc.
+                return /^data:image\/[a-z0-9.+-]+;base64,[a-z0-9+/=\s]+$/i.test(raw) ? raw : "";
+            }
+
+            if (lower.startsWith("http://") || lower.startsWith("https://")) return raw;
+
+            // Allow relative URLs but reject other schemes.
+            if (/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:/i.test(raw)) return "";
+            return raw;
+        };
+
         let file = this.htmlSaveTemplate;
         let description = _("No description provided");
         if (this.activity.PlanetInterface !== undefined) {
@@ -245,10 +273,13 @@ class SaveInterface {
         }
 
         file = file
-            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_description }}", "g"), description)
-            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_name }}", "g"), name)
-            .replace(new RegExp("{{ data }}", "g"), data)
-            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_image }}", "g"), image);
+            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_description }}", "g"), () => escapeHTML(description))
+            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_name }}", "g"), () => escapeHTML(name))
+            // Always render project data as text, never as HTML.
+            .replace(new RegExp("{{ data }}", "g"), () => escapeHTML(data))
+            .replace(new RegExp("{{ project_image }}", "g"), () =>
+                escapeHTML(sanitizeImageURL(image))
+            );
         return file;
     }
 
diff --git a/js/__tests__/SaveInterface.test.js b/js/__tests__/SaveInterface.test.js
index 2c2b4eb48b..04206417c4 100644
--- a/js/__tests__/SaveInterface.test.js
+++ b/js/__tests__/SaveInterface.test.js
@@ -184,15 +184,9 @@ describe("save HTML methods", () => {
     });
 
     it("should replace placeholders with actual project data", () => {
-        let file = activity.htmlSaveTemplate;
-        file = file
-            .replace(
-                /{{ project_description }}/g,
-                activity.PlanetInterface.getCurrentProjectDescription()
-            )
-            .replace(/{{ project_name }}/g, activity.PlanetInterface.getCurrentProjectName())
-            .replace(/{{ data }}/g, activity.prepareExport())
-            .replace(/{{ project_image }}/g, activity.PlanetInterface.getCurrentProjectImage());
+        instance.activity = activity;
+        instance.htmlSaveTemplate = activity.htmlSaveTemplate;
+        const file = instance.prepareHTML();
 
         expect(file).toContain("<h1>Mock Project</h1>");
         expect(file).toContain("<p>Mock Description</p>");
@@ -200,6 +194,31 @@ describe("save HTML methods", () => {
         expect(file).toContain("<div>Mock Exported Data</div>");
     });
 
+    it("should escape project name/description/data to prevent HTML injection", () => {
+        instance.activity = {
+            ...activity,
+            PlanetInterface: {
+                ...activity.PlanetInterface,
+                getCurrentProjectName: jest.fn(() => "</title><img src=x onerror=alert(1)><title>"),
+                getCurrentProjectDescription: jest.fn(() => "<b>desc</b>"),
+                getCurrentProjectImage: jest.fn(() => 'x" onerror=alert(1)"')
+            },
+            prepareExport: jest.fn(() => "<script>alert(1)</script>")
+        };
+
+        instance.htmlSaveTemplate =
+            '<title>{{ project_name }}</title><p>{{ project_description }}</p><img src="{{ project_image }}"><div>{{ data }}</div>';
+
+        const file = instance.prepareHTML();
+
+        expect(file).toContain("&lt;/title&gt;&lt;img src=x onerror=alert(1)&gt;&lt;title&gt;");
+        expect(file).toContain("&lt;b&gt;desc&lt;/b&gt;");
+        expect(file).toContain("x&quot; onerror=alert(1)&quot;");
+        expect(file).toContain("&lt;script&gt;alert(1)&lt;/script&gt;");
+        expect(file).not.toContain("<img src=x onerror=alert(1)>");
+        expect(file).not.toContain("<script>alert(1)</script>");
+    });
+
     it("should call prepareHTML and download the file", () => {
         const mockPrepareHTML = jest.fn(() => "<html>Mock HTML</html>");
 
diff --git a/js/activity.js b/js/activity.js
index 36ec729e76..dd994a5a3c 100644
--- a/js/activity.js
+++ b/js/activity.js
@@ -7522,20 +7522,30 @@ class Activity {
                                 );
                             } else {
                                 const cleanData = rawData.replace("\n", " ");
+
+                                const decodeHtmlEntities = value => {
+                                    if (typeof value !== "string") return value;
+                                    if (value.indexOf("&") === -1) return value;
+                                    const textarea = document.createElement("textarea");
+                                    textarea.innerHTML = value;
+                                    return textarea.value;
+                                };
+
                                 let obj;
                                 try {
                                     if (cleanData.includes("html")) {
-                                        if (cleanData.includes('id="codeBlock"')) {
-                                            obj = JSON.parse(
-                                                cleanData.match(
-                                                    '<div class="code" id="codeBlock">(.+?)</div>'
-                                                )[1]
-                                            );
-                                        } else {
-                                            obj = JSON.parse(
-                                                cleanData.match('<div class="code">(.+?)</div>')[1]
+                                        const match = cleanData.includes('id="codeBlock"')
+                                            ? cleanData.match(
+                                                  '<div class="code" id="codeBlock">(.+?)</div>'
+                                              )
+                                            : cleanData.match('<div class="code">(.+?)</div>');
+                                        if (!match) {
+                                            throw new Error(
+                                                "Could not find project data in HTML file"
                                             );
                                         }
+
+                                        obj = JSON.parse(decodeHtmlEntities(match[1]));
                                     } else {
                                         obj = JSON.parse(cleanData);
                                     }