diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e49d2e..2f1f8b4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## UNRELEASED (2023-01-31)
+
+- Fix auto-adding escaped closing tags. In other words, do not add implied closing tags to disallowed tags when `disallowedTagMode` is set to any variant of `escape` -- just escape the disallowed tags that are present. This fixes [issue #464](https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/464). Thanks to [Daniel Liebner](https://github.com/dliebner)
+- Add `tagAllowed()` helper function which takes a tag name and checks it against `options.allowedTags` and returns `true` if the tag is allowed and `false` if it is not.
+
 ## 2.9.0 (2023-01-27)
 
 - Add option parseStyleAttributes to skip style parsing. This fixes [issue #547](https://github.com/apostrophecms/sanitize-html/issues/547). Thanks to [Bert Verhelst](https://github.com/bertyhell).
diff --git a/test/test.js b/test/test.js
index 88ecbea..eb9bcbb 100644
--- a/test/test.js
+++ b/test/test.js
@@ -1561,4 +1561,17 @@ describe('sanitizeHtml', function() {
       }), '<script src="//example.com/script.js"></script>'
     );
   });
+  it('should not automatically attach close tag for escaped tags', function() {
+    assert.equal(sanitizeHtml('<test>Hello', {
+      disallowedTagsMode: 'escape',
+    }), '&lt;test&gt;Hello');
+    assert.equal(sanitizeHtml('<test><test><test><test><test>Hello', {
+      disallowedTagsMode: 'recursiveEscape',
+    }), '&lt;test&gt;&lt;test&gt;&lt;test&gt;&lt;test&gt;&lt;test&gt;Hello');
+  });
+  it('should discard unclosed disallowed tags', function() {
+    assert.equal(sanitizeHtml('<test>Hello', {
+      disallowedTagsMode: 'discard',
+    }), 'Hello');
+  });
 });