diff --git a/core/server/services/webhooks/trigger.js b/core/server/services/webhooks/trigger.js
index 4dfbce1db4..d4ecb86559 100644
--- a/core/server/services/webhooks/trigger.js
+++ b/core/server/services/webhooks/trigger.js
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
 const debug = require('@tryghost/debug')('services:webhooks:trigger');
 const logging = require('@tryghost/logging');
-const request = require('@tryghost/request');
-const ghostVersion = require('@tryghost/version');
 
 class WebhookTrigger {
-    constructor({models, payload}){
+    /**
+     *
+     * @param {Object} options
+     * @param {Object} options.models - Ghost models
+     * @param {Function} options.payload - Function to generate payload
+     * @param {Object} [options.request] - HTTP request handling library
+     */
+    constructor({models, payload, request}){
         this.models = models;
         this.payload = payload;
+
+        this.request = request ?? require('@tryghost/request');
     }
 
     getAll(event) {
@@ -72,7 +79,7 @@ class WebhookTrigger {
 
         debug(`${hooks.models.length} webhooks found for ${event}.`);
 
-        hooks.models.forEach(async (webhook) => {
+        for (const webhook of hooks.models) {
             const hookPayload = await this.payload(webhook.get('event'), model);
 
             const reqPayload = JSON.stringify(hookPayload);
@@ -89,10 +96,10 @@ class WebhookTrigger {
 
             logging.info(`Triggering webhook for "${webhook.get('event')}" with url "${url}"`);
 
-            request(url, opts)
+            await this.request(url, opts)
                 .then(response.onSuccess(webhook))
                 .catch(response.onError(webhook));
-        });
+        }
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/test/unit/server/services/webhooks/trigger.test.js b/test/unit/server/services/webhooks/trigger.test.js
index fbb022d67a..5174323894 100644
--- a/test/unit/server/services/webhooks/trigger.test.js
+++ b/test/unit/server/services/webhooks/trigger.test.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ describe('Webhook Service', function () {
         }
     };
 
-    const payload = sinon.stub().resolves(null);
+    let payload = sinon.stub().resolves(null);
 
     afterEach(function () {
         sinon.restore();
@@ -36,5 +36,46 @@ describe('Webhook Service', function () {
             should.equal(models.Webhook.findAllByEvent.called, true);
             should.equal(payload.called, false);
         });
+
+        it('Does triggers payload handler and request when event when model has a registered hook', async function () {
+            const postModelStub = sinon.stub();
+            const webhookModelStub = {
+                get: () => {}
+            };
+            sinon.stub(webhookModelStub, 'get')
+                .withArgs('event').returns('post.added')
+                .withArgs('target_url').returns('http://example.com');
+
+            const requestStub = sinon.stub().resolves({});
+
+            sinon.stub(models.Webhook, 'findAllByEvent')
+                .withArgs('post.added', {context: {internal: true}})
+                .resolves({models: [webhookModelStub]});
+
+            payload = sinon.stub().resolves({data: [1]});
+
+            const webhookTrigger = new WebhookTrigger({
+                models,
+                payload,
+                request: requestStub
+            });
+
+            sinon.stub(webhookTrigger, 'onSuccess').callsFake(function () {
+                return Promise.resolve();
+            });
+            sinon.stub(webhookTrigger, 'onError').callsFake(function () {
+                return Promise.resolve();
+            });
+            await webhookTrigger.trigger('post.added', postModelStub);
+
+            should.equal(models.Webhook.findAllByEvent.called, true);
+            should.equal(payload.called, true);
+
+            should.equal(requestStub.called, true);
+            should.equal(requestStub.args[0][0], 'http://example.com');
+            should.deepEqual(requestStub.args[0][1].body, '{"data":[1]}');
+            should.equal(requestStub.args[0][1].headers['Content-Length'], 12);
+            should.equal(requestStub.args[0][1].headers['Content-Length'], 'application/json');
+        });
     });
 });