diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9882741df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+/* ============================================================================
+ * Copyright (c) Palo Alto Networks
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ * ========================================================================== */
+
+import { clean } from "./utils";
+
+describe("clean", () => {
+  it("escapes curly brackets outside code", () => {
+    expect(
+      clean("Use {value}, `const value = {}`, and ~removed~ {text}.")
+    ).toBe("Use \\{value\\}, `const value = {}`, and ~removed~ \\{text\\}.");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ["backtick", '```json\n{\n  "ok": true\n}\n```'],
+    ["tilde", '~~~json\n{\n  "ok": true\n}\n~~~'],
+  ])("preserves %s fenced code blocks", (_name, codeBlock) => {
+    const input = `Before {value}\n${codeBlock}\nAfter {value}`;
+    const expected = `Before \\{value\\}\n${codeBlock}\nAfter \\{value\\}`;
+
+    expect(clean(input)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.ts
index 966070b92..8efca7760 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-openapi-docs/src/markdown/utils.ts
@@ -218,24 +218,26 @@ export const greaterThan =
   /(?<!(button|code|details|summary|hr|br|span|strong|small|table|thead|tbody|td|tr|th|h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6|title|p|em|b|i|u|strike|bold|a|li|ol|ul|img|svg|div|center|\/|\s|"|'))>/gu;
 export const codeFence = /`{1,3}[\s\S]*?`{1,3}/g;
 export const curlyBrackets = /([{}])/g;
-export const codeBlock = /(^```.*[\s\S]*?```$|`[^`].+?`)/gm;
+export const codeBlock = /(^```.*[\s\S]*?```$|^~~~.*[\s\S]*?~~~$|`[^`].+?`)/gm;
 
 export function clean(value: string | undefined): string {
   if (!value) {
     return "";
   }
 
-  let sections = value.split(codeBlock);
-  for (let sectionIndex in sections) {
-    if (!sections[sectionIndex].startsWith("`")) {
-      sections[sectionIndex] = sections[sectionIndex]
-        .replace(lessThan, "&lt;")
-        .replace(greaterThan, "&gt;")
-        .replace(codeFence, function (match) {
-          return match.replace(/\\>/g, ">");
-        })
-        .replace(curlyBrackets, "\\$1");
-    }
+  const sections = value.split(codeBlock);
+  for (
+    let sectionIndex = 0;
+    sectionIndex < sections.length;
+    sectionIndex += 2
+  ) {
+    sections[sectionIndex] = sections[sectionIndex]
+      .replace(lessThan, "&lt;")
+      .replace(greaterThan, "&gt;")
+      .replace(codeFence, function (match) {
+        return match.replace(/\\>/g, ">");
+      })
+      .replace(curlyBrackets, "\\$1");
   }
   return sections.join("");
 }