diff --git a/system/core/Security.php b/system/core/Security.php
index 6cdce5d..89a94c3 100644
--- a/system/core/Security.php
+++ b/system/core/Security.php
@@ -542,6 +542,14 @@
 			$str
 		);
 
+		// Same thing, but for "tag functions" (e.g. eval`some code`)
+		// See https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/5420
+		$str = preg_replace(
+			'#(alert|prompt|confirm|cmd|passthru|eval|exec|expression|system|fopen|fsockopen|file|file_get_contents|readfile|unlink)(\s*)`(.*?)`#si',
+			'\\1\\2&#96;\\3&#96;',
+			$str
+		);
+
 		// Final clean up
 		// This adds a bit of extra precaution in case
 		// something got through the above filters
@@ -927,7 +935,7 @@
 		return str_replace(
 			$match[1],
 			preg_replace(
-				'#href=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|d\s*a\s*t\s*a\s*:)#si',
+				'#href=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm)(?:\(|&\#40;|`|&\#96;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|d\s*a\s*t\s*a\s*:)#si',
 				'',
 				$this->_filter_attributes($match[1])
 			),
@@ -955,7 +963,7 @@
 		return str_replace(
 			$match[1],
 			preg_replace(
-				'#src=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm|eval)(?:\(|&\#40;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|base64\s*,)#si',
+				'#src=.*?(?:(?:alert|prompt|confirm|eval)(?:\(|&\#40;|`|&\#96;)|javascript:|livescript:|mocha:|charset=|window\.|document\.|\.cookie|<script|<xss|base64\s*,)#si',
 				'',
 				$this->_filter_attributes($match[1])
 			),
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index 4eaed24..37cd31d 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 - **Security**
 
    -  Updated :doc:`URL Helper <helpers/url_helper>` function :php:func:`auto_link()` to add ``rel="noopener"`` to generated links in order to prevent tab hijacking.
+   -  Updated :doc:`Security Library <libraries/security>` method ``xss_clean()`` to also filter JavaScript tag functions.
 
 -  General Changes