diff --git a/backend/src/middleware/xssMiddleware.ts b/backend/src/middleware/xssMiddleware.ts
index ede0cc199..9d8671137 100644
--- a/backend/src/middleware/xssMiddleware.ts
+++ b/backend/src/middleware/xssMiddleware.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { cleanHtml } from '../middleware/helpers/cleanHtml'
 
 // exclamation mark separetes field names, that should not be sanitized
 const fields = [
-  'content',
+  'content!message',
   'contentExcerpt',
   'reasonDescription',
   'description!embed',