Text fails to render properly inside Excerpt element in topic page

Versions Tested

Community Forums for Confluence 2.25.0
Confluence 6.9.3

Steps to Reproduce

• Create a new forum
• Create a new topic
• In the body of the page, insert an Excerpt element
• Place text inside the Excerpt that contains special characters such as apostrophes / ampersands
• Click Publish
• Return to the forum page

Expected Result

The text inside the Excerpt is shown as input

Actual Result

The special characters are replaced with their HTML codes (see screenshots)