diff --git a/system/core/Security.php b/system/core/Security.php
index c415544..4f2185d 100644
--- a/system/core/Security.php
+++ b/system/core/Security.php
@@ -642,17 +642,16 @@
 			$count = 0;
 			$attribs = array();
 
-			// find occurrences of illegal attribute strings without quotes
-			preg_match_all('/('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*([^\s>]*)/is', $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
+			// find occurrences of illegal attribute strings with quotes (042 and 047 are octal quotes)
+			preg_match_all('/('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*(\042|\047)([^\\2]*?)(\\2)/is', $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 
 			foreach ($matches as $attr)
 			{
-
 				$attribs[] = preg_quote($attr[0], '/');
 			}
 
-			// find occurrences of illegal attribute strings with quotes (042 and 047 are octal quotes)
-			preg_match_all('/('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*(\042|\047)([^\\2]*?)(\\2)/is', $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
+			// find occurrences of illegal attribute strings without quotes
+			preg_match_all('/('.implode('|', $evil_attributes).')\s*=\s*([^\s>]*)/is', $str, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 
 			foreach ($matches as $attr)
 			{
@@ -662,7 +661,7 @@
 			// replace illegal attribute strings that are inside an html tag
 			if (count($attribs) > 0)
 			{
-				$str = preg_replace('/<(\/?[^><]+?)([^A-Za-z<>\-])(.*?)('.implode('|', $attribs).')(.*?)([\s><])([><]*)/i', '<$1 $3$5$6$7', $str, -1, $count);
+				$str = preg_replace('/(<?)(\/?[^><]+?)([^A-Za-z<>\-])(.*?)('.implode('|', $attribs).')(.*?)([\s><]?)([><]*)/i', '$1$2 $4$6$7$8', $str, -1, $count);
 			}
 
 		} while ($count);