diff --git a/.changeset/unlucky-ravens-build.md b/.changeset/unlucky-ravens-build.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..49d1ec100
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/unlucky-ravens-build.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@tiptap/extension-link": patch
+---
+
+fix: #5679 - perform string sanitization to remove unwanted "object replacement characters" from the before performing link detection
diff --git a/packages/extension-link/src/link.ts b/packages/extension-link/src/link.ts
index b9b882995..bb8ead872 100644
--- a/packages/extension-link/src/link.ts
+++ b/packages/extension-link/src/link.ts
@@ -351,7 +351,12 @@ export const Link = Mark.create<LinkOptions>({
 
           if (text) {
             const { protocols, defaultProtocol } = this.options
-            const links = find(text).filter(
+            // Prosemirror replaces zero-width non-joiner characters
+            // with Object Replacement Character from unicode.
+            // Therefore, linkifyjs does not recognize the
+            // link properly. We replace these characters
+            // with regular spaces to fix this issue.
+            const links = find(text.replaceAll('\uFFFC', ' ')).filter(
               item => item.isLink
                 && this.options.isAllowedUri(item.value, {
                   defaultValidate: href => !!isAllowedUri(href, protocols),