diff --git a/src/node/utils/Minify.js b/src/node/utils/Minify.js
index b4d5c8514..02728824d 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/Minify.js
+++ b/src/node/utils/Minify.js
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const RequireKernel = require('etherpad-require-kernel');
 const mime = require('mime-types');
 const Threads = require('threads');
 const log4js = require('log4js');
+const sanitizePathname = require('./sanitizePathname');
 
 const logger = log4js.getLogger('Minify');
 
@@ -104,26 +105,6 @@ const requestURIs = (locations, method, headers, callback) => {
   });
 };
 
-// Normalizes p and ensures that it is a relative path that does not reach outside. See
-// https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3297 for additional context.
-const sanitizePathname = (p, pathApi = path) => {
-  // The documentation for path.normalize() says that it resolves '..' and '.' segments. The word
-  // "resolve" implies that it examines the filesystem to resolve symbolic links, so 'a/../b' might
-  // not be the same thing as 'b'. Most path normalization functions from other libraries (e.g.,
-  // Python's os.path.normpath()) clearly state that they do not examine the filesystem. Here we
-  // assume Node.js's path.normalize() does the same; that it is only a simple string manipulation.
-  p = pathApi.normalize(p);
-  if (pathApi.isAbsolute(p)) throw new Error(`absolute paths are forbidden: ${p}`);
-  if (p.split(pathApi.sep)[0] === '..') throw new Error(`directory traversal: ${p}`);
-  // On Windows, path normalization replaces forwardslashes with backslashes. Convert them back to
-  // forwardslashes. Node.js treats both the backlash and the forwardslash characters as pathname
-  // component separators on Windows so this does not change the meaning of the pathname on Windows.
-  // THIS CONVERSION MUST ONLY BE DONE ON WINDOWS, otherwise on POSIXish systems '..\\' in the input
-  // pathname would not be normalized away before being converted to '../'.
-  if (pathApi.sep === '\\') p = p.replace(/\\/g, '/');
-  return p;
-};
-
 const compatPaths = {
   'js/browser.js': 'js/vendors/browser.js',
   'js/farbtastic.js': 'js/vendors/farbtastic.js',
@@ -340,7 +321,3 @@ exports.requestURIs = requestURIs;
 exports.shutdown = async (hookName, context) => {
   await threadsPool.terminate();
 };
-
-exports.exportedForTestingOnly = {
-  sanitizePathname,
-};
diff --git a/src/node/utils/sanitizePathname.js b/src/node/utils/sanitizePathname.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61b611166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/node/utils/sanitizePathname.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const path = require('path');
+
+// Normalizes p and ensures that it is a relative path that does not reach outside. See
+// https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3297 for additional context.
+module.exports = (p, pathApi = path) => {
+  // The documentation for path.normalize() says that it resolves '..' and '.' segments. The word
+  // "resolve" implies that it examines the filesystem to resolve symbolic links, so 'a/../b' might
+  // not be the same thing as 'b'. Most path normalization functions from other libraries (e.g.,
+  // Python's os.path.normpath()) clearly state that they do not examine the filesystem. Here we
+  // assume Node.js's path.normalize() does the same; that it is only a simple string manipulation.
+  p = pathApi.normalize(p);
+  if (pathApi.isAbsolute(p)) throw new Error(`absolute paths are forbidden: ${p}`);
+  if (p.split(pathApi.sep)[0] === '..') throw new Error(`directory traversal: ${p}`);
+  // On Windows, path normalization replaces forwardslashes with backslashes. Convert them back to
+  // forwardslashes. Node.js treats both the backlash and the forwardslash characters as pathname
+  // component separators on Windows so this does not change the meaning of the pathname on Windows.
+  // THIS CONVERSION MUST ONLY BE DONE ON WINDOWS, otherwise on POSIXish systems '..\\' in the input
+  // pathname would not be normalized away before being converted to '../'.
+  if (pathApi.sep === '\\') p = p.replace(/\\/g, '/');
+  return p;
+};
diff --git a/src/tests/backend/specs/Minify.js b/src/tests/backend/specs/sanitizePathname.js
similarity index 96%
rename from src/tests/backend/specs/Minify.js
rename to src/tests/backend/specs/sanitizePathname.js
index 5834bb94e..767221920 100644
--- a/src/tests/backend/specs/Minify.js
+++ b/src/tests/backend/specs/sanitizePathname.js
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const Minify = require('../../../node/utils/Minify');
 const assert = require('assert').strict;
 const path = require('path');
-
-const {sanitizePathname} = Minify.exportedForTestingOnly;
+const sanitizePathname = require('../../../node/utils/sanitizePathname');
 
 describe(__filename, function () {
   describe('absolute paths rejected', function () {