diff --git a/src/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelper.php b/src/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelper.php
index 5612c0b..c5913eb 100644
--- a/src/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelper.php
+++ b/src/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelper.php
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ class TemplateHelper
      * Escapes a string for output in an HTML document, but preserves
      * URIs within it, and converts them to clickable anchor elements.
      *
+     * Only http and https URIs are turned into links. Any other scheme is left as
+     * plain text, because schemes such as javascript: and data: would otherwise
+     * become clickable script execution on the error page.
+     *
      * @param  string $raw
      * @return string
      */
@@ -87,7 +91,7 @@ class TemplateHelper
     {
         $escaped = $this->escape($raw);
         return preg_replace(
-            "@([A-z]+?://([-\w\.]+[-\w])+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.#-]*(\?\S+)?[^\.\s])?)?)@",
+            "@(https?://([-\w\.]+[-\w])+(:\d+)?(/([\w/_\.#-]*(\?\S+)?[^\.\s])?)?)@i",
             "<a href=\"$1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1</a>",
             $escaped
         );
diff --git a/tests/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelperTest.php b/tests/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelperTest.php
index 086645a..75baf7a 100644
--- a/tests/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelperTest.php
+++ b/tests/Whoops/Util/TemplateHelperTest.php
@@ -63,6 +63,49 @@ class TemplateHelperTest extends TestCase
         );
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @covers Whoops\Util\TemplateHelper::escapeButPreserveUris
+     */
+    public function testEscapeButPreserveUrisIgnoresNonHttpSchemes()
+    {
+        // None of these contain HTML special characters, so escaping leaves them
+        // untouched and the only question is whether they get turned into links.
+        $originals = [
+            // Clicking such a link would run alert(1): the browser decodes %0A to a
+            // newline, which ends the "//x.co/?" JavaScript comment.
+            'javascript://x.co/?%0Aalert(1)',
+            'JAVASCRIPT://x.co/?%0Aalert(1)',
+            'vbscript://x.co/?%0Amsgbox(1)',
+            'data://text.html/?%0Ax',
+            // "_" is between "Z" and "a" in ASCII, so it used to pass as a scheme.
+            '_://x.co/a',
+            'See javascript://x.co/?%0Aalert(document.cookie) for details',
+        ];
+
+        foreach ($originals as $original) {
+            $this->assertSame($original, $this->helper->escapeButPreserveUris($original));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @covers Whoops\Util\TemplateHelper::escapeButPreserveUris
+     */
+    public function testEscapeButPreserveUrisStillLinksHttpUris()
+    {
+        $originals = [
+            'http://example.com/a',
+            'https://example.com/a',
+            'HTTPS://example.com/a',
+        ];
+
+        foreach ($originals as $original) {
+            $this->assertSame(
+                "<a href=\"$original\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$original</a>",
+                $this->helper->escapeButPreserveUris($original)
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * @covers Whoops\Util\TemplateHelper::breakOnDelimiter
      */