diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index bf7bcd1c5e8..d01c3ab3481 100644
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -76,7 +76,10 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 
   def store_preloaded(key, json)
     @preloaded ||= {}
-    @preloaded[key] = json
+    # I dislike that there is a gsub as opposed to a gsub! 
+    #  but we can not be mucking with user input, I wonder if there is a way 
+    #  to inject this safty deeper in the library or even in AM serializer
+    @preloaded[key] = json.gsub("</", "<\\/")
   end
 
   # If we are rendering HTML, preload the session data