diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/geomap/utils/layers.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/geomap/utils/layers.ts
index 4cd68d22a5d..2533ab9f5de 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/geomap/utils/layers.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/geomap/utils/layers.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { PluggableMap } from 'ol';
 import { FeatureLike } from 'ol/Feature';
 import { Subject } from 'rxjs';
 
-import { getFrameMatchers, MapLayerHandler, MapLayerOptions, PanelData } from '@grafana/data/src';
+import { getFrameMatchers, MapLayerHandler, MapLayerOptions, PanelData, textUtil } from '@grafana/data';
 import { config } from '@grafana/runtime/src';
 
 import { GeomapPanel } from '../GeomapPanel';
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ export async function initLayer(
     return Promise.reject('unknown layer: ' + options.type);
   }
 
+  if (options.config?.attribution) {
+    options.config.attribution = textUtil.sanitizeTextPanelContent(options.config.attribution);
+  }
+
   const handler = await item.create(map, options, panel.props.eventBus, config.theme2);
   const layer = handler.init(); // eslint-disable-line
   if (options.opacity != null) {