diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 851a8ed0145..5772d03dba2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 8.4.0 (unreleased)
+  - Fix Error 500 when doing a search in dashboard before visiting any project (Stan Hu)
   - Implement new UI for group page
 
 v 8.3.0
diff --git a/app/views/search/results/_issue.html.haml b/app/views/search/results/_issue.html.haml
index ce8ddff9556..45d700781f3 100644
--- a/app/views/search/results/_issue.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/search/results/_issue.html.haml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   - if issue.description.present?
     .description.term
       = preserve do
-        = search_md_sanitize(markdown(issue.description))
+        = search_md_sanitize(markdown(issue.description, { project: issue.project }))
   %span.light
     #{issue.project.name_with_namespace}
   - if issue.closed?