diff --git a/common/components.py b/common/components.py
index 71f8d92..a82c69b 100644
--- a/common/components.py
+++ b/common/components.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist
 from django.template.defaultfilters import floatformat
 from django.template.loader import render_to_string
 from django.urls import reverse
+from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
 from django.utils.safestring import SafeText, mark_safe
 
 from common.utils import truncate
@@ -47,13 +48,11 @@ def Component(
         raise ValueError("One of template or tag_name is required.")
     if isinstance(children, str):
         children = [children]
-    childrenBlob = "\n".join(children)
+    childrenBlob = "\n".join(conditional_escape(child) for child in children)
     if len(attributes) == 0:
         attributesBlob = ""
     else:
-        attributesList = [f'{name}="{value}"' for name, value in attributes]
-        # make attribute list into a string
-        # and insert space between tag and attribute list
+        attributesList = [f'{name}="{conditional_escape(str(value))}"' for name, value in attributes]
         attributesBlob = f" {' '.join(attributesList)}"
     tag: str = ""
     if tag_name != "":
diff --git a/tests/test_components.py b/tests/test_components.py
index 9600193..3c610fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_components.py
+++ b/tests/test_components.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 import django
 
 from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist
-from django.utils.safestring import SafeText
+from django.utils.safestring import SafeText, mark_safe
 
 from common import components
 from games.models import Platform, Game, Purchase, Session
@@ -426,13 +426,33 @@ class ComponentEdgeCasesTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_multiple_children_joined_with_newlines(self):
         result = components.Component(
-            tag_name="div", children=["<span>a</span>", "<span>b</span>"]
+            tag_name="div", children=["hello", "world"]
         )
-        self.assertIn("<span>a</span>", result)
-        self.assertIn("<span>b</span>", result)
+        self.assertIn("hello\nworld", result)
         self.assertIn("<div>", result)
         self.assertIn("</div>", result)
 
+    def test_raw_html_children_are_escaped(self):
+        result = components.Component(
+            tag_name="div", children=["<script>alert('xss')</script>"]
+        )
+        self.assertNotIn("<script>", result)
+        self.assertIn("&lt;script&gt;", result)
+
+    def test_mark_safe_children_pass_through(self):
+        result = components.Component(
+            tag_name="div", children=[mark_safe("<span>safe</span>")]
+        )
+        self.assertIn("<span>safe</span>", result)
+
+    def test_attribute_values_are_escaped(self):
+        result = components.Component(
+            tag_name="div",
+            attributes=[("data-x", 'foo"bar')],
+        )
+        self.assertIn("&quot;", result)
+        self.assertNotIn('"foo"bar"', result)
+
     def test_attributes_serialized_correctly(self):
         result = components.Component(
             tag_name="div", attributes=[("class", "foo"), ("id", "bar")]