diff --git a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.test.ts b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.test.ts
index 81d2876c19..6cee2cebd9 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.test.ts
+++ b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.test.ts
@@ -22,12 +22,11 @@ describe('WebViewMessageStream', () => {
     expect(await responsePromise).toBe(555);
 
     expect(mockWebViewA.injectJavaScript).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      `window.postMessage([123,34,116,97,114,103,101,116,34,58,34,98,34,44,34,100,97,116,97,34,58,34,83,89,78,34,125])`,
+      `window.postMessage("{\\"target\\":\\"b\\",\\"data\\":\\"SYN\\"}")`,
     );
 
-    // Inject { target: "foo", data: 111 }
     mockWebViewA.injectJavaScript(
-      `window.postMessage([123,34,116,97,114,103,101,116,34,58,34,102,111,111,34,44,34,100,97,116,97,34,58,49,49,49,125])`,
+      `window.postMessage("{\\"target\\":\\"foo\\",\\"data\\":111}")`,
     );
 
     const listener = jest.fn();
diff --git a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.ts b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.ts
index 8d6f390a91..a38f0a6ec6 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.ts
+++ b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/services/webview/WebViewMessageStream.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import type { PostMessageEvent } from '@metamask/post-message-stream';
 import { BasePostMessageStream } from '@metamask/post-message-stream';
 import { isValidStreamMessage } from '@metamask/post-message-stream/dist/utils';
-import { assert, stringToBytes } from '@metamask/utils';
+import { assert } from '@metamask/utils';
 
 export type WebViewInterface = {
   injectJavaScript(js: string): void;
@@ -56,11 +56,9 @@ export class WebViewMessageStream extends BasePostMessageStream {
       data,
     });
 
-    // To prevent XSS, we encode the message before injecting it.
-    // This adds significant performance overhead for larger messages.
-    const bytes = new Uint8Array(stringToBytes(json));
+    const encoded = JSON.stringify(json);
 
-    this.#webView.injectJavaScript(`window.postMessage([${bytes.toString()}])`);
+    this.#webView.injectJavaScript(`window.postMessage(${encoded})`);
   }
 
   // TODO: Either fix this lint violation or explain why it's necessary to
diff --git a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/test-utils/webview.ts b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/test-utils/webview.ts
index 6037533f97..c10da7cf69 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-controllers/src/test-utils/webview.ts
+++ b/packages/snaps-controllers/src/test-utils/webview.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import { bytesToString } from '@metamask/utils';
-
 import { WebViewMessageStream } from '../services/webview/WebViewMessageStream';
 
 /**
@@ -9,9 +7,7 @@ import { WebViewMessageStream } from '../services/webview/WebViewMessageStream';
  * @returns The decoded JSON as a string.
  */
 export function parseInjectedJS(js: string) {
-  const byteString = js.slice(19, -1);
-  const bytes = new Uint8Array(JSON.parse(byteString));
-  return bytesToString(bytes);
+  return JSON.parse(js.slice(19, -1));
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/coverage.json b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/coverage.json
index 517425849f..a22d613aa7 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/coverage.json
+++ b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/coverage.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "branches": 90.74,
   "functions": 94.96,
-  "lines": 90.86,
-  "statements": 90.28
+  "lines": 90.85,
+  "statements": 90.27
 }
diff --git a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.test.ts b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.test.ts
index 378303d5f6..c73b9f8db0 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.test.ts
+++ b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { sleep } from '@metamask/snaps-utils/test-utils';
-import { stringToBytes } from '@metamask/utils';
 
 import { WebViewExecutorStream } from './WebViewExecutorStream';
 
@@ -7,9 +6,8 @@ describe('WebViewExecutorStream', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     const addEventListener = jest.fn();
     const postMessage = jest.fn().mockImplementation((message) => {
-      const bytes = stringToBytes(message);
       addEventListener.mock.calls.forEach(([_type, listener]) => {
-        setTimeout(() => listener({ data: Array.from(bytes) }));
+        setTimeout(() => listener({ data: message }));
       });
     });
     const mockWindow = {
diff --git a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.ts b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.ts
index c3bb7f20da..07d0137136 100644
--- a/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.ts
+++ b/packages/snaps-execution-environments/src/webview/WebViewExecutorStream.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import type { PostMessageEvent } from '@metamask/post-message-stream';
 import { BasePostMessageStream } from '@metamask/post-message-stream';
 import { isValidStreamMessage } from '@metamask/post-message-stream/dist/utils';
-import { bytesToString } from '@metamask/utils';
 
 type WebViewExecutorStreamArgs = {
   name: string;
@@ -65,12 +64,11 @@ export class WebViewExecutorStream extends BasePostMessageStream {
   //  ignore.
   // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
   private _onMessage(event: PostMessageEvent): void {
-    if (!Array.isArray(event.data)) {
+    if (typeof event.data !== 'string') {
       return;
     }
 
-    const json = bytesToString(new Uint8Array(event.data as number[]));
-    const message = JSON.parse(json);
+    const message = JSON.parse(event.data);
 
     // Notice that we don't check targetWindow or targetOrigin here.
     // This doesn't seem possible to do in RN.