I've hit this three times now, and it is incredibly annoying. Worse, there seems no easy way out other than avoiding using * - which is difficult!

In the cases that I am being affected, it is when my Confluence pages start to reference IP address masks such as 47.* . Many of these references work, however, they can also fail!

Try the following as a "minimal steps to reproduce":

1) Add Page
2) In Rich Text type these keys exactly:
2a) Control-B
2b) "A"
2c) Control-B
2d) SPACE
2e) "4"
2f) "7"
2g) "."
2h) "*"
2i) ")"
2j) SPACE
2k) Control-B
2l) "B"
2m) Control-B
3) Confirm that you see (with A and B being bold): A 47.*) B
4) Click "Wiki Markup"
5) Confirm that you see: *A* 47.*) *B*
6) Click "Rich Text"
7) Confirm that you see (with A and ") *B" being bold): A 47.) *B

As you should be able to reproduce from the above, going back and forth from "Wiki Markup" and "Rich Text" seems to be corrupting the bold markup.

I confirmed that the same things happens with underline and + as well as italic and _.

Please fix before I go crazy.