diff --git a/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/Paste.ts b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/Paste.ts
index c092aa0db09..4f38a874b52 100644
--- a/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/Paste.ts
+++ b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/Paste.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import convertPastedContentFromWord from './wordConverter/convertPastedContentFr
 import getPasteSource from './sourceValidations/getPasteSource';
 import handleLineMerge from './lineMerge/handleLineMerge';
 import sanitizeHtmlColorsFromPastedContent from './sanitizeHtmlColorsFromPastedContent/sanitizeHtmlColorsFromPastedContent';
+import sanitizeLinks from './sanitizeLinks/sanitizeLinks';
 import { EditorPlugin, IEditor, PluginEvent, PluginEventType } from 'roosterjs-editor-types';
 import { GOOGLE_SHEET_NODE_NAME } from './sourceValidations/constants';
 import { KnownSourceType } from './sourceValidations/KnownSourceType';
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ export default class Paste implements EditorPlugin {
                     handleLineMerge(fragment);
                     break;
             }
-
+            sanitizeLinks(sanitizingOption);
             sanitizeHtmlColorsFromPastedContent(sanitizingOption);
 
             // Replace unknown tags with SPAN
diff --git a/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/sanitizeLinks/sanitizeLinks.ts b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/sanitizeLinks/sanitizeLinks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..afd89eb228d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/lib/plugins/Paste/sanitizeLinks/sanitizeLinks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { chainSanitizerCallback } from 'roosterjs-editor-dom';
+import { HtmlSanitizerOptions } from 'roosterjs-editor-types';
+
+const HTTP = 'http:';
+const HTTPS = 'https:';
+
+/**
+ * @internal
+ * Clear local paths and remove link
+ * @param sanitizingOption the sanitizingOption of BeforePasteEvent
+ * */
+export default function sanitizeLinks(sanitizingOption: Required<HtmlSanitizerOptions>) {
+    chainSanitizerCallback(
+        sanitizingOption.attributeCallbacks,
+        'href',
+        (value: string, element: HTMLElement) => validateLink(value, element)
+    );
+}
+
+function validateLink(link: string, htmlElement: HTMLElement) {
+    let url;
+    try {
+        url = new URL(link);
+    } catch {
+        url = undefined;
+    }
+
+    if (url && (url.protocol === HTTP || url.protocol === HTTPS)) {
+        return link;
+    }
+    htmlElement.removeAttribute('href');
+    return '';
+}
diff --git a/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/test/paste/sanitizeLinksTest.ts b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/test/paste/sanitizeLinksTest.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..783bb38254b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/roosterjs-editor-plugins/test/paste/sanitizeLinksTest.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+import sanitizeLinks from '../../lib/plugins/Paste/sanitizeLinks/sanitizeLinks';
+import { HtmlSanitizer } from 'roosterjs-editor-dom';
+import {
+    BeforePasteEvent,
+    SanitizeHtmlOptions,
+    PluginEventType,
+    ClipboardData,
+} from 'roosterjs-editor-types';
+
+describe('sanitizeLinks', () => {
+    function callSanitizer(fragment: DocumentFragment, sanitizingOption: SanitizeHtmlOptions) {
+        const sanitizer = new HtmlSanitizer(sanitizingOption);
+        sanitizer.convertGlobalCssToInlineCss(fragment);
+        sanitizer.sanitize(fragment);
+    }
+
+    function runTest(source: string, expected: string) {
+        const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(source, 'text/html');
+        const fragment = doc.createDocumentFragment();
+        while (doc.body.firstChild) {
+            fragment.appendChild(doc.body.firstChild);
+        }
+
+        const event = createBeforePasteEventMock(fragment);
+        sanitizeLinks(event.sanitizingOption);
+        callSanitizer(fragment, event.sanitizingOption);
+
+        while (fragment.firstChild) {
+            doc.body.appendChild(fragment.firstChild);
+        }
+
+        expect(doc.body.innerHTML).toBe(expected);
+    }
+
+    it('sanitize anchor', () => {
+        runTest('<a href="/text.txt"></a>', '<a></a>');
+    });
+
+    it('not sanitize anchor', () => {
+        runTest(
+            '<a href="https://microsoft.github.io/"></a>',
+            '<a href="https://microsoft.github.io/"></a>'
+        );
+    });
+
+    it('sanitize div', () => {
+        runTest('<div><a href="/text.txt"></a></div>', '<div><a></a></div>');
+    });
+
+    it('not sanitize div', () => {
+        runTest(
+            '<div><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/"></a></div>',
+            '<div><a href="https://microsoft.github.io/"></a></div>'
+        );
+    });
+});
+
+function createBeforePasteEventMock(fragment: DocumentFragment) {
+    return ({
+        eventType: PluginEventType.BeforePaste,
+        clipboardData: <ClipboardData>{},
+        fragment: fragment,
+        sanitizingOption: {
+            elementCallbacks: {},
+            attributeCallbacks: {},
+            cssStyleCallbacks: {},
+            additionalTagReplacements: {},
+            additionalAllowedAttributes: [],
+            additionalAllowedCssClasses: [],
+            additionalDefaultStyleValues: {},
+            additionalGlobalStyleNodes: [],
+            additionalPredefinedCssForElement: {},
+            preserveHtmlComments: false,
+            unknownTagReplacement: null,
+        },
+        htmlBefore: '',
+        htmlAfter: '',
+        htmlAttributes: {},
+    } as unknown) as BeforePasteEvent;
+}