diff --git a/wp-includes/default-widgets.php b/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
index bbefd3b4e1..54d1d4012d 100644
--- a/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
+++ b/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ class WP_Widget_RSS extends WP_Widget {
 		if ( ! is_wp_error($rss) ) {
 			$desc = esc_attr(strip_tags(@html_entity_decode($rss->get_description(), ENT_QUOTES, get_option('blog_charset'))));
 			if ( empty($title) )
-				$title = htmlentities(strip_tags($rss->get_title()));
+				$title = esc_html(strip_tags($rss->get_title()));
 			$link = esc_url(strip_tags($rss->get_permalink()));
 			while ( stristr($link, 'http') != $link )
 				$link = substr($link, 1);