diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm
index 479e10e74..0090b67b9 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/htmlscrubber.pm
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ sub scrubber {
 			tfoot th thead tr tt u ul var
 
 			video audio source section nav article aside hgroup
-			header footer time mark canvas
+			header footer figure figcaption time mark canvas
 		}],
 		default => [undef, { (
 			map { $_ => 1 } qw{
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 12ef08a91..108764c39 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ikiwiki (3.20100428) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Version dependency on liburi-perl to >= 1.36; previous versions
     did not support building urls from utf-8 strings. Closes: #579713
   * htmlscrubber: Allow html5 semantic tags: section nav article aside hgroup
-    header footer time mark
+    header footer figure figcaption time mark
   * htmlscrubber: Also allow html5 canvas tags.
   * htmlscrubber: Round out html5 video support with the preload
     attribute and the source tag.