diff --git a/install/package.json b/install/package.json
index 7d792f7d2d..f24311ad37 100644
--- a/install/package.json
+++ b/install/package.json
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
         "express-useragent": "^1.0.13",
         "graceful-fs": "^4.2.3",
         "helmet": "^4.0.0",
-        "html-to-text": "^5.1.1",
+        "html-to-text": "6.0.0",
         "ipaddr.js": "^2.0.0",
         "jquery": "3.5.1",
         "jquery-deserialize": "2.0.0-rc1",
diff --git a/src/emailer.js b/src/emailer.js
index 83e16f5d97..4b9ae4a575 100644
--- a/src/emailer.js
+++ b/src/emailer.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ const nconf = require('nconf');
 const Benchpress = require('benchpressjs');
 const nodemailer = require('nodemailer');
 const wellKnownServices = require('nodemailer/lib/well-known/services');
-const htmlToText = require('html-to-text');
+const { htmlToText } = require('html-to-text');
 const url = require('url');
 const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs');
@@ -287,8 +287,8 @@ Emailer.sendToEmail = async (template, email, language, params) => {
 		from_name: meta.config['email:from_name'] || 'NodeBB',
 		subject: '[' + meta.config.title + '] ' + _.unescape(subject),
 		html: html,
-		plaintext: htmlToText.fromString(html, {
-			ignoreImage: true,
+		plaintext: htmlToText(html, {
+			tags: { img: { format: 'skip' } },
 		}),
 		template: template,
 		uid: params.uid,