diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/mixins.scss b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/mixins.scss
index 28c6b807c49..5a5d79ae5d2 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/mixins.scss
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/common/foundation/mixins.scss
@@ -200,7 +200,12 @@ $breakpoints: (
   // it returns a CDN or subfolder path (if applicable).
   // SCSS will compile (and return the relative path) if public_image_path is missing.
   @if variable-exists(public_image_path) {
-    @return url("#{$public_image_path}#{$path}");
+    @if (str-index("#{$path}", "/plugins") == 1) {
+      $plugin_asset_path: str-replace($public_image_path, "/images", "");
+      @return url("#{$plugin_asset_path}#{$path}");
+    } @else {
+      @return url("#{$public_image_path}#{$path}");
+    }
   } @else {
     @return url("#{$path}");
   }
diff --git a/spec/components/stylesheet/compiler_spec.rb b/spec/components/stylesheet/compiler_spec.rb
index 4e91d109b32..2c7dff02da4 100644
--- a/spec/components/stylesheet/compiler_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/components/stylesheet/compiler_spec.rb
@@ -118,6 +118,16 @@ describe Stylesheet::Compiler do
     expect(css).not_to include('absolute-image-url')
   end
 
+  it "supports absolute-image-url in plugins" do
+    set_cdn_url "https://awesome.com"
+    scss = Stylesheet::Importer.new({}).prepended_scss
+    scss += ".body{background-image: absolute-image-url('/plugins/discourse-special/images/somefile.png');}"
+    css, _map = Stylesheet::Compiler.compile(scss, "discourse-special.scss")
+
+    expect(css).to include('url("https://awesome.com/plugins/discourse-special/images/somefile.png")')
+    expect(css).not_to include('absolute-image-url')
+  end
+
   context "with a color scheme" do
     it "returns the default color definitions when no color scheme is specified" do
       css, _map = Stylesheet::Compiler.compile_asset("color_definitions")