diff --git a/common/static/common/js/discussion/utils.js b/common/static/common/js/discussion/utils.js
index 4e96363cc8..18ed34e5c9 100644
--- a/common/static/common/js/discussion/utils.js
+++ b/common/static/common/js/discussion/utils.js
@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@
             imageUploadUrl = this.urlFor('upload');
             _processor = function(self) {
                 return function(text) {
-                    return self.postMathJaxProcessor(text);
+                    // HTML returned by Markdown is assumed to be safe to render
+                    return self.postMathJaxProcessor(edx.HtmlUtils.HTML(text)).toString();
                 };
             };
             editor = Markdown.makeWmdEditor(elem, appended_id, imageUploadUrl, _processor(this));