diff --git a/components/Editor.vue b/components/Editor.vue
index 7d063a60..2d9be390 100644
--- a/components/Editor.vue
+++ b/components/Editor.vue
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ export default {
         new ListItem(),
         new Code(),
         new History(),
-        new Link({ openOnClick: false }),
+        new Link({ openOnClick: false, target: '_blank' }),
         new Bold(),
         new Italic(),
         new Strike(),
diff --git a/server/api/controller/event.js b/server/api/controller/event.js
index 210fe513..9e93bd33 100644
--- a/server/api/controller/event.js
+++ b/server/api/controller/event.js
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ const eventController = {
     const eventDetails = {
       title: body.title,
       // remove html tags
-      description: helpers.sanitizeHTML(linkifyHtml(body.description)),
+      description: helpers.sanitizeHTML(linkifyHtml(body.description, { target: '_blank' })),
       multidate: body.multidate,
       start_datetime: body.start_datetime,
       end_datetime: body.end_datetime,
diff --git a/server/helpers.js b/server/helpers.js
index 58c96196..75c6bb90 100644
--- a/server/helpers.js
+++ b/server/helpers.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ module.exports = {
     return domPurify.sanitize(html, {
       ALLOWED_TAGS: ['p', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'br',
         'h6', 'b', 'a', 'li', 'ul', 'ol', 'code', 'blockquote', 'u', 's', 'strong'],
-      ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href']
+      ALLOWED_ATTR: ['href', 'target']
     })
   },