Page Template header/footer markdown image does not render correctly

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When Inserting an image in the page template header or footer, they do not render in the HTML report. Instead you can see the markup tags for the image/figure. After digging into the DOM you can see that the rendered figure seems to be sanitized and its tags were replaced with HTML character entities, here is an example:

When turned back to real HTML tags, the image renders. Any suggestions on how to approach this?

Edit: How different are the page template's header and footer from the markdown components? both seem to use the custom markdown tag which applies a safestring function, yet those can render images fine.

[s0alqasim1d]

Was able to fix this by employing the use of user_template_replace(markdown, context) in pageTemplate.py function from markdown.py instead of render_markdown(markdown, context) function written below it in the same file but uses a sanitization function before returning the result. No more sanitized html from markdown in header or footer.