diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index d1654bf998..61094afe93 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@
     },
     "dependencies": {
         "@babel/runtime": "^7.12.5",
+        "@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg": "^2.4.1",
         "@matrix-org/analytics-events": "^0.6.0",
-        "@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg": "^2.3.1",
         "@matrix-org/react-sdk-module-api": "^1.0.0",
         "@sentry/browser": "^7.0.0",
         "@sentry/tracing": "^7.0.0",
diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposer.tsx b/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposer.tsx
index 8235134537..d51f60bf86 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposer.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/MessageComposer.tsx
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ export class MessageComposer extends React.Component<IProps, IState> {
 
         const { isRichTextEnabled, composerContent } = this.state;
         const convertedContent = isRichTextEnabled
-            ? await richToPlain(composerContent)
+            ? await richToPlain(composerContent, false)
             : await plainToRich(composerContent, false);
 
         this.setState({
diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/DynamicImportWysiwygComposer.tsx b/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/DynamicImportWysiwygComposer.tsx
index ba41bd4055..2e02fb5719 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/DynamicImportWysiwygComposer.tsx
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/DynamicImportWysiwygComposer.tsx
@@ -45,9 +45,11 @@ export const dynamicImportConversionFunctions = async (): Promise<{
      * ensure that HTML entities are correctly interpreted, and to prevent newline characters being turned into `<br>`.
      *
      * @param rich - html to convert
+     * @param inMessageFormat - `true` to format the return value for use as a message `formatted_body`.
+     * `false` to format it for writing to an editor element.
      * @returns a string of plain text that may contain markdown
      */
-    richToPlain(rich: string): Promise<string>;
+    richToPlain(rich: string, inMessageFormat: boolean): Promise<string>;
 
     /**
      * Creates a rust model from plain text input (interpreted as markdown) and uses it to generate the rich text
diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/utils/createMessageContent.ts b/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/utils/createMessageContent.ts
index aa469a5fd2..58a4795c2a 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/utils/createMessageContent.ts
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/wysiwyg_composer/utils/createMessageContent.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export async function createMessageContent(
 
     // if we're editing rich text, the message content is pure html
     // BUT if we're not, the message content will be plain text where we need to convert the mentions
-    const body = isHTML ? await richToPlain(message) : convertPlainTextToBody(message);
+    const body = isHTML ? await richToPlain(message, false) : convertPlainTextToBody(message);
     const bodyPrefix = (isReplyAndEditing && getTextReplyFallback(editedEvent)) || "";
     const formattedBodyPrefix = (isReplyAndEditing && getHtmlReplyFallback(editedEvent)) || "";
 
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 246b076a07..64e146271b 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1806,10 +1806,10 @@
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@matrix-org/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm/-/matrix-sdk-crypto-wasm-1.0.1.tgz#21a0557a7bb3f60b37c6d412be8906c056fe79b8"
   integrity sha512-VTwV5IowvhhLXwAsDDAv02bC5/qBQbG2YtpYAije11253sQ3MePIoSR+dS40Ih3lAlEzqQ00GU3O+i45jMzIRQ==
 
-"@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg@^2.3.1":
-  version "2.3.1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg/-/matrix-wysiwyg-2.3.1.tgz#4b607323f3ffd8c332abeba7226010ecc031ed12"
-  integrity sha512-OxJvA+pSGdP2f55foZGEDmU2qvILFLLjV53MOgPw1F6zDAp8nDL1rPPIzFv1qgDj5W7d4Rzq7FnN25vINnAu+A==
+"@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg@^2.4.1":
+  version "2.4.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg/-/matrix-wysiwyg-2.4.1.tgz#e1325a42366a1c891b2ba90c88e597b39187b2cb"
+  integrity sha512-RyUijZXVKenE9s3LczDUhWFeOfIyLcsOrAyHqYxnizXX5nxMkHxTgLeoTvaIJ+1dOhI+H2SS9G4VcN6odZ0aNg==
 
 "@matrix-org/olm@https://gitlab.matrix.org/api/v4/projects/27/packages/npm/@matrix-org/olm/-/@matrix-org/olm-3.2.14.tgz":
   version "3.2.14"