I haven't 100% confirmed this yet, but I just ran into this issue, our staging enviroment is running v9, production is 8.5.3, and I believe it is the dojo version that is the issue. We use a Staging env' that is similar to our prod'n env: cluster, reverse proxy, SSO, etc., the only "main" diff at the moment is Domino verison. THe funny thing is, I pastyed this image below, which is exactlky what we are taklking about... :).
Also, see this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37828722/xpages-unable-to-paste-image-in-rich-text-field
