diff --git a/packages/ckeditor5-engine/src/view/element.js b/packages/ckeditor5-engine/src/view/element.js
index 0a0e36ec0d2..b88e75c729d 100644
--- a/packages/ckeditor5-engine/src/view/element.js
+++ b/packages/ckeditor5-engine/src/view/element.js
@@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ export default class Element extends Node {
 		// is changed by e.g. toWidget() function from ckeditor5-widget. Perhaps this should be one of custom props.
 		cloned.getFillerOffset = this.getFillerOffset;
 
+		// Clone unsafe attributes list.
+		cloned._unsafeAttributesToRender = this._unsafeAttributesToRender;
+
 		return cloned;
 	}
 
diff --git a/packages/ckeditor5-engine/tests/view/renderer.js b/packages/ckeditor5-engine/tests/view/renderer.js
index 0809b129882..2ea380f8fc3 100644
--- a/packages/ckeditor5-engine/tests/view/renderer.js
+++ b/packages/ckeditor5-engine/tests/view/renderer.js
@@ -4062,7 +4062,7 @@ describe( 'Renderer', () => {
 				expect( normalizeHtml( domRoot.innerHTML ) ).to.equal( '<p data-ck-unsafe-attribute-onclick="test">foo</p>' );
 			} );
 
-			it( 'should rename attributes that can affect editing pipeline unless permitted when the element was created', () => {
+			it( 'should rename attributes that can affect editing pipeline unless permitted when the container element was created', () => {
 				view.change( writer => {
 					const containerElement = writer.createContainerElement( 'p', {
 						onclick: 'foo',
@@ -4083,6 +4083,27 @@ describe( 'Renderer', () => {
 				);
 			} );
 
+			it( 'should rename attributes that can affect editing pipeline unless permitted when an attribute element was created', () => {
+				view.change( writer => {
+					const attributeElement = writer.createAttributeElement( 'span', {
+						onclick: 'foo',
+						onkeydown: 'bar'
+					}, {
+						renderUnsafeAttributes: [ 'onclick' ]
+					} );
+
+					writer.insert( writer.createPositionAt( view.document.getRoot(), 'start' ), writer.createText( 'baz' ) );
+					writer.wrap( writer.createRangeIn( view.document.getRoot() ), attributeElement );
+				} );
+
+				view.forceRender();
+
+				expect( getViewData( view ) ).to.equal( '<span onclick="foo" onkeydown="bar">baz</span>' );
+				expect( normalizeHtml( domRoot.innerHTML ) ).to.equal(
+					'<span data-ck-unsafe-attribute-onkeydown="bar" onclick="foo">baz</span>'
+				);
+			} );
+
 			it( 'should rename attributes that can not be rendered in the editing pipeline', () => {
 				setViewData( view,
 					'<container:p>' +