diff --git a/spring-core-4/pom.xml b/spring-core-4/pom.xml
index 6ba8357a0e..492a2ec5a2 100644
--- a/spring-core-4/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-core-4/pom.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@
             <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
             <version>${annotation-api.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
+            <version>${apache-commons-text.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <properties>
@@ -80,6 +85,7 @@
         <servlet-api.version>4.0.0</servlet-api.version>
         <annotation-api.version>1.3.2</annotation-api.version>
         <maven-war-plugin.version>3.3.2</maven-war-plugin.version>
+        <apache-commons-text.version>1.10.0</apache-commons-text.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/spring-core-4/src/main/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUtils.java b/spring-core-4/src/main/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUtils.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b7da2eefb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core-4/src/main/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUtils.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package com.baeldung.escapehtml;
+
+import com.google.common.html.HtmlEscapers;
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
+import org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils;
+
+public class HtmlEscapeUtils {
+
+    public static String escapeWithApacheCommons(String input) {
+        return StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4(input);
+    }
+
+    public static String escapeWithGuava(String input) {
+        return HtmlEscapers.htmlEscaper().escape(input);
+    }
+
+    public static String escapeWithSpring(String input) {
+        return HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(input);
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/spring-core-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUnitTest.java b/spring-core-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUnitTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..92d1138869
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-core-4/src/test/java/com/baeldung/escapehtml/HtmlEscapeUnitTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package com.baeldung.escapehtml;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+public class HtmlEscapeUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputContainAmpersand_thenEscape() {
+        String input = "AT&T";
+        String expected = "AT&amp;T";
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithApacheCommons(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithGuava(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithSpring(input));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputContainDoubleQuotes_thenEscape() {
+        String input = "She said, \"Hello!\"";
+        String expected = "She said, &quot;Hello!&quot;";
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithApacheCommons(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithGuava(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithSpring(input));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputContainManyHtmlSymbols_thenEscape() {
+        String input = "<p>This is a <strong>test</strong> string.</p>";
+        String expected = "&lt;p&gt;This is a &lt;strong&gt;test&lt;/strong&gt; string.&lt;/p&gt;";
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithApacheCommons(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithGuava(input));
+        assertEquals(expected, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithSpring(input));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void whenInputContainNoHtmlSymbols_thenEscape() {
+        String input = "This is a plain text.";
+        assertEquals(input, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithApacheCommons(input));
+        assertEquals(input, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithGuava(input));
+        assertEquals(input, HtmlEscapeUtils.escapeWithSpring(input));
+    }
+}