diff --git a/searx/engines/stackoverflow.py b/searx/engines/stackoverflow.py
index ee1a72734..9ee89bc6e 100644
--- a/searx/engines/stackoverflow.py
+++ b/searx/engines/stackoverflow.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def response(resp):
     for result in dom.xpath('//div[@class="question-summary search-result"]'):
         link = result.xpath('.//div[@class="result-link"]//a')[0]
         href = urljoin(url, link.attrib.get('href'))
-        title = ' '.join(link.xpath('.//text()'))
+        title = escape(' '.join(link.xpath('.//text()')))
         content = escape(' '.join(result.xpath('.//div[@class="excerpt"]//text()')))
         results.append({'url': href, 'title': title, 'content': content})
     return results