diff --git a/actix-files/Cargo.toml b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
index 30356d81aff..33de0e6d964 100644
--- a/actix-files/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ actix-service = "2"
 actix-utils = "3"
 actix-web = { version = "4", default-features = false }
 
-askama_escape = "0.10"
 bitflags = "1"
 bytes = "1"
 derive_more = "0.99.5"
@@ -38,6 +37,7 @@ mime = "0.3"
 mime_guess = "2.0.1"
 percent-encoding = "2.1"
 pin-project-lite = "0.2.7"
+v_htmlescape= "0.15"
 
 # experimental-io-uring
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
diff --git a/actix-files/src/directory.rs b/actix-files/src/directory.rs
index 32dd6365bb5..3af53a31ab0 100644
--- a/actix-files/src/directory.rs
+++ b/actix-files/src/directory.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 use std::{fmt::Write, fs::DirEntry, io, path::Path, path::PathBuf};
 
 use actix_web::{dev::ServiceResponse, HttpRequest, HttpResponse};
-use askama_escape::{escape as escape_html_entity, Html};
 use percent_encoding::{utf8_percent_encode, CONTROLS};
+use v_htmlescape::escape as escape_html_entity;
 
 /// A directory; responds with the generated directory listing.
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ macro_rules! encode_file_url {
 /// ```
 macro_rules! encode_file_name {
     ($entry:ident) => {
-        escape_html_entity(&$entry.file_name().to_string_lossy(), Html)
+        escape_html_entity(&$entry.file_name().to_string_lossy())
     };
 }