diff --git a/src/core/Utils.js b/src/core/Utils.js
index 9b0d2a30b6..9011880fa7 100755
--- a/src/core/Utils.js
+++ b/src/core/Utils.js
@@ -259,6 +259,22 @@ const Utils = {
     },
 
 
+    /**
+     * Escape a string containing regex control characters so that it can be safely
+     * used in a regex without causing unintended behaviours.
+     *
+     * @param {string} str
+     * @returns {string}
+     *
+     * @example
+     * // returns "\[example\]"
+     * Utils.escapeRegex("[example]");
+     */
+    escapeRegex: function(str) {
+        return str.replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\])/g, "\\$1");
+    },
+
+
     /**
      * Expand an alphabet range string into a list of the characters in that range.
      *
diff --git a/src/core/config/OperationConfig.js b/src/core/config/OperationConfig.js
index 585bf6007d..0397b50e2c 100755
--- a/src/core/config/OperationConfig.js
+++ b/src/core/config/OperationConfig.js
@@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ const OperationConfig = {
         args: []
     },
     "Find / Replace": {
-        description: "Replaces all occurrences of the first string with the second.<br><br>The three match options are only relevant to regex search strings.",
+        description: "Replaces all occurrences of the first string with the second.<br><br> Includes support for regular expressions (regex), simple strings and extended strings (which support \\n, \\r, \\t, \\b, \\f and escaped hex bytes using \\x notation, e.g. \\x00 for a null byte).",
         run: StrUtils.runFindReplace,
         manualBake: true,
         inputType: "string",
diff --git a/src/core/operations/StrUtils.js b/src/core/operations/StrUtils.js
index 78a0e838fe..093de39b31 100755
--- a/src/core/operations/StrUtils.js
+++ b/src/core/operations/StrUtils.js
@@ -227,14 +227,16 @@ const StrUtils = {
 
         if (type === "Regex") {
             find = new RegExp(find, modifiers);
-        } else if (type.indexOf("Extended") === 0) {
+            return input.replace(find, replace);
+        }
+
+        if (type.indexOf("Extended") === 0) {
             find = Utils.parseEscapedChars(find);
         }
 
-        return input.replace(find, replace, modifiers);
-        // Non-standard addition of flags in the third argument. This will work in Firefox but
-        // probably nowhere else. The purpose is to allow global matching when the `find` parameter
-        // is just a string.
+        find = new RegExp(Utils.escapeRegex(find), modifiers);
+
+        return input.replace(find, replace);
     },