diff --git a/licensing-service/src/api/buy_page.rs b/licensing-service/src/api/buy_page.rs
index 94b3904..09961cf 100644
--- a/licensing-service/src/api/buy_page.rs
+++ b/licensing-service/src/api/buy_page.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 //! buyer-facing surface — easy to deploy, no asset hosting required.
 
 use crate::api::AppState;
+// Reuse the canonical HTML escaper (escapes `'` as well as `&<>"`) instead of a
+// private copy, so the buyer-facing page can't fall behind on attribute escaping.
+use crate::api::html_escape;
 use crate::db::repo;
 use axum::{
     extract::{Path, Query, State},
@@ -1533,13 +1536,6 @@ code{{background:#eee;padding:0.1em 0.4em;border-radius:4px;font-family:ui-monos
     )
 }
 
-fn html_escape(s: &str) -> String {
-    s.replace('&', "&amp;")
-        .replace('<', "&lt;")
-        .replace('>', "&gt;")
-        .replace('"', "&quot;")
-}
-
 fn format_thousands(n: i64) -> String {
     // Renders 50000 as "50,000" — visible price legibility for sat amounts.
     let s = n.to_string();
diff --git a/licensing-service/src/api/mod.rs b/licensing-service/src/api/mod.rs
index a56197e..fe4246b 100644
--- a/licensing-service/src/api/mod.rs
+++ b/licensing-service/src/api/mod.rs
@@ -1193,3 +1193,22 @@ async fn pubkey(
         "public_key_pem": state.keypair.public_key_pem,
     }))
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// The canonical escaper must cover the single quote — operator/product/
+    /// discount-code text renders into HTML attributes (incl. single-quoted),
+    /// so omitting `'` is an injection hole. Guards against re-forking a copy
+    /// that drops it (the bug that lived in `buy_page.rs`).
+    #[test]
+    fn html_escape_covers_single_quote_and_friends() {
+        assert_eq!(html_escape("'"), "&#39;");
+        assert_eq!(
+            html_escape(r#"<a href='x' title="y">&</a>"#),
+            "&lt;a href=&#39;x&#39; title=&quot;y&quot;&gt;&amp;&lt;/a&gt;"
+        );
+        assert_eq!(html_escape("plain"), "plain");
+    }
+}