diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v1/pages_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v1/pages_controller.rb
index 3d4aa4091..c8f840c6c 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/v1/pages_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v1/pages_controller.rb
@@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ module Api
       end
 
       def permitted_params
+        if params[:social_image].present? && params[:social_image][:url].present?
+          params[:remote_social_image_url] = params[:social_image][:url]
+        end
         params.permit(*%i[title slug description is_top_level_path
-                          body_json body_markdown body_html body_css social_image template])
+                          body_json body_markdown body_html body_css remote_social_image_url template])
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/spec/requests/api/v1/pages_spec.rb b/spec/requests/api/v1/pages_spec.rb
index 0bc84ea1b..044746bca 100644
--- a/spec/requests/api/v1/pages_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/api/v1/pages_spec.rb
@@ -153,6 +153,29 @@ RSpec.describe "Api::V1::Pages" do
       expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
       expect(Page).not_to exist(page.id)
     end
+
+    context "when providing a social image url" do
+      let(:image_url) { "https://example.com/image.jpg" }
+      let(:mocked_image_file) { Images::ProfileImageGenerator.call }
+      # forced binary encoding to avoid encoding issues
+      let(:mocked_image_data) { mocked_image_file.read.force_encoding("BINARY") }
+
+      before do
+        stub_request(:get, image_url).to_return(body: mocked_image_data, headers: { "Content-Type" => "image/png" })
+      end
+
+      it "creates a page with a social image" do
+        post_params[:social_image] = { url: image_url }
+        post api_pages_path, params: post_params.to_json, headers: auth_header
+        expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
+
+        page = Page.find_by(title: post_params[:title])
+        expect(page.social_image).to be_present
+
+        uploaded_image_data = page.social_image.read.force_encoding("BINARY")
+        expect(uploaded_image_data).to eq(mocked_image_data)
+      end
+    end
   end
 
   it "retrieves all pages and renders the collection as json" do