diff --git a/app/views/api/projects/index.json.jbuilder b/app/views/api/projects/index.json.jbuilder
index 15b4e3f5c..616297a2a 100644
--- a/app/views/api/projects/index.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/api/projects/index.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 json.projects @projects do |project|
-  json.extract! project, :id, :name, :description, :licence_id, :slug, :state
+  json.extract! project, :id, :name, :licence_id, :slug, :state
+  json.description sanitize(project.description)
   json.author_id project.author.user_id
 
   json.project_image project.project_image.attachment.medium.url if project.project_image