diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/WebUtilRuntimeHints.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/WebUtilRuntimeHints.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..397dcf159a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/WebUtilRuntimeHints.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2022 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.web.util;
+
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHints;
+import org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHintsRegistrar;
+
+/**
+ * {@link RuntimeHintsRegistrar} implementation that registers resource
+ * hints for web util classes.
+ *
+ * @author Sebastien Deleuze
+ * @since 6.0
+ */
+class WebUtilRuntimeHints implements RuntimeHintsRegistrar {
+
+	@Override
+	public void registerHints(RuntimeHints hints, ClassLoader classLoader) {
+		hints.resources().registerPattern("org/springframework/web/util/HtmlCharacterEntityReferences.properties");
+	}
+}
diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/aot.factories b/spring-web/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/aot.factories
index cc0469cfe3..dc9f0635ae 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/aot.factories
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/aot.factories
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 org.springframework.aot.hint.RuntimeHintsRegistrar= \
 org.springframework.http.HttpMimeTypesRuntimeHints,\
 org.springframework.http.codec.CodecConfigurerRuntimeHints,\
-org.springframework.http.converter.json.JacksonModulesRuntimeHints
\ No newline at end of file
+org.springframework.http.converter.json.JacksonModulesRuntimeHints,\
+org.springframework.web.util.WebUtilRuntimeHints
\ No newline at end of file