diff --git a/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_component.php b/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_component.php
index b2744e0c89d19..ead8dd1ef49cd 100644
--- a/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_component.php
+++ b/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_component.php
@@ -49,4 +49,4 @@
 	$attributes['onclick'] = "window.open(this.href, 'targetWindow', '" . $options . "'); return false;";
 }
 
-echo JHtml::_('link', JFilterOutput::ampReplace(htmlspecialchars($item->flink)), $linktype, $attributes);
+echo JHtml::_('link', JFilterOutput::ampReplace($item->flink), $linktype, $attributes);
diff --git a/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_url.php b/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_url.php
index 0a3d637da7bd2..ab5dabd5c61d2 100644
--- a/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_url.php
+++ b/modules/mod_menu/tmpl/default_url.php
@@ -50,4 +50,4 @@
 	$attributes['onclick'] = "window.open(this.href, 'targetWindow', '" . $options . "'); return false;";
 }
 
-echo JHtml::_('link', JFilterOutput::ampReplace(htmlspecialchars($item->flink, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')), $linktype, $attributes);
+echo JHtml::_('link', JFilterOutput::ampReplace($item->flink), $linktype, $attributes);