Image caption formatting lost when switching from Source to Visual mode

Bug description

When I put image caption text in italics, add a link to the image, switch to Source as the editor, then switch back to Visual as the editor, the italics formatting is lost. The example document below reproduces this behavior. (I also lose caption formatting on one of my pages when rendering the document, but am unable to reproduce that behavior with the example below.)

Steps to reproduce

---
title: "Bug Example"
author: "Lindsay Clark"
---

```{r}
png("example_image.png")
plot(1:10, 1:10)
dev.off()
```

[![This is a *formatted* caption](example_image.png)](example_image.png)

Expected behavior

When I switch back and forth between editors, I expect the formatting to say the same.

Actual behavior

The asterisks that indicate italics formatting get stripped out of the document. I tried HTML tags, and these are also lost.

Your environment

• IDE: RStudio/2023.12.0+369
• OS: Windows 11

Quarto check output

[>] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.1: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.55.0: OK
[>] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[>] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.3.450
      Path: C:\Program Files\RStudio\resources\app\bin\quarto\bin
      CodePage: 1252

[>] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[>] Checking Python 3 installation....(None)

      Unable to locate an installed version of Python 3.
      Install Python 3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/

[>] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.1
      Path: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-43~1.1
      LibPaths:
        - C:/Users/drago/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.3
        - C:/Program Files/R/R-4.3.1/library
      knitr: 1.45
      rmarkdown: 2.25

[>] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

Start by reproducing the issue with the supplied Markdown document and the Source-to-Visual editor switches, then compare the document before and after the conversion. Done means italic and HTML caption formatting, including the linked image caption, remains intact when switching between editor modes.