diff --git a/lib/broccoli/search-indexer.js b/lib/broccoli/search-indexer.js
index d559349db..2a2c473ae 100644
--- a/lib/broccoli/search-indexer.js
+++ b/lib/broccoli/search-indexer.js
@@ -3,12 +3,10 @@
 const Writer = require('broccoli-caching-writer');
 const lunr = require('lunr');
 const striptags = require('striptags');
-const Entities = require('html-entities').AllHtmlEntities;
+const { decode }  = require('html-entities');
 const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const path = require('path');
 
-const htmlEntities = new Entities();
-
 module.exports = class SearchIndexCompiler extends Writer {
   constructor(input, options) {
     super([input]);
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ module.exports = class SearchIndexCompiler extends Writer {
       type: 'component',
       title: item.attributes.name,
       keywords: keywords,
-      text: htmlEntities.decode(striptags(normalizeText(item.attributes.description))),
+      text: decode(striptags(normalizeText(item.attributes.description))),
       item
     };
   }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6c2684080..831dd7576 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     "git-repo-info": "^2.1.1",
     "highlight.js": "^10.4.0",
     "hosted-git-info": "^3.0.4",
-    "html-entities": "^1.2.1",
+    "html-entities": "^2.0.6",
     "inflected": "^2.0.3",
     "jsdom": "^16.4.0",
     "json-api-serializer": "^2.2.1",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 4d189428c..5cd5b65bb 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -9172,10 +9172,10 @@ html-encoding-sniffer@^2.0.1:
   dependencies:
     whatwg-encoding "^1.0.5"
 
-html-entities@^1.2.1:
-  version "1.4.0"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/html-entities/-/html-entities-1.4.0.tgz#cfbd1b01d2afaf9adca1b10ae7dffab98c71d2dc"
-  integrity sha512-8nxjcBcd8wovbeKx7h3wTji4e6+rhaVuPNpMqwWgnHh+N9ToqsCs6XztWRBPQ+UtzsoMAdKZtUENoVzU/EMtZA==
+html-entities@^2.0.6:
+  version "2.0.6"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/html-entities/-/html-entities-2.0.6.tgz#e773b9acfad65718dd194e599f1b11cf5704b925"
+  integrity sha512-SiH2gwQT78XunjDZfXAa6KrE91kzZUGbef3PL9JmWS+DhL48/+FC+1sNh++/titGzIs8NvH+xuNam/FwV7mJsQ==
 
 html-tags@^3.1.0:
   version "3.1.0"