diff --git a/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php b/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php
index 8169a4fcbc..535f5d5f81 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-list-table.php
@@ -1425,8 +1425,8 @@ class WP_List_Table {
 			}
 
 			// Comments column uses HTML in the display name with screen reader text.
-			// Instead of using esc_attr(), we strip tags to get closer to a user-friendly string.
-			$data = 'data-colname="' . wp_strip_all_tags( $column_display_name ) . '"';
+			// Strip tags to get closer to a user-friendly string.
+			$data = 'data-colname="' . esc_attr( wp_strip_all_tags( $column_display_name ) ) . '"';
 
 			$attributes = "class='$classes' $data";
 
diff --git a/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php b/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php
index 2ab7e9f725..a0a989498c 100644
--- a/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php
+++ b/src/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-users-list-table.php
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ class WP_Users_List_Table extends WP_List_Table {
 				$classes .= ' hidden';
 			}
 
-			$data = 'data-colname="' . wp_strip_all_tags( $column_display_name ) . '"';
+			$data = 'data-colname="' . esc_attr( wp_strip_all_tags( $column_display_name ) ) . '"';
 
 			$attributes = "class='$classes' $data";