diff --git a/src/html.rs b/src/html.rs
index 91a488d8..0e6868ce 100644
--- a/src/html.rs
+++ b/src/html.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use std::default::Default;
 
 use crate::core::{parse_content_type, MonolithOptions};
 use crate::css::embed_css;
-use crate::js::attr_is_event_handler;
+use crate::js::{attr_is_event_handler, escape_script_end_tag};
 use crate::session::Session;
 use crate::url::{
     clean_url, create_data_url, is_url_and_has_protocol, resolve_url, Url, EMPTY_IMAGE_DATA_URL,
@@ -765,10 +765,9 @@ pub fn retrieve_and_embed_asset(
                                 if let NodeData::Text { ref contents } = text_node.data {
                                     let mut tendril = contents.borrow_mut();
                                     tendril.clear();
-                                    tendril.push_slice(
-                                        &String::from_utf8_lossy(&data)
-                                            .replace("</script>", "<\\/script>"),
-                                    );
+                                    tendril.push_slice(&escape_script_end_tag(
+                                        &String::from_utf8_lossy(&data),
+                                    ));
                                 }
 
                                 node.children.borrow_mut().push(text_node.clone());
diff --git a/src/js.rs b/src/js.rs
index a6b463a9..136e5067 100644
--- a/src/js.rs
+++ b/src/js.rs
@@ -100,3 +100,37 @@ pub fn attr_is_event_handler(attr_name: &str) -> bool {
         .iter()
         .any(|a| attr_name.eq_ignore_ascii_case(a))
 }
+
+// Escapes anything an HTML parser could read as a closing SCRIPT tag, so that
+// inlined code can't break out of the SCRIPT element it's being embedded into.
+// The tag name matches ASCII case-insensitively and has to be followed by
+// whitespace, a solidus, or ">" to count as an end tag (WHATWG HTML 13.2.5.22):
+//   https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#script-data-end-tag-name-state
+pub fn escape_script_end_tag(code: &str) -> String {
+    let bytes: &[u8] = code.as_bytes();
+    let mut result: String = String::with_capacity(code.len());
+    let mut copied: usize = 0;
+    let mut i: usize = 0;
+
+    while i + 8 <= bytes.len() {
+        if bytes[i] == b'<'
+            && bytes[i + 1] == b'/'
+            && bytes[i + 2..i + 8].eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"script")
+            && (i + 8 == bytes.len()
+                || matches!(
+                    bytes[i + 8],
+                    b'\t' | b'\n' | b'\x0c' | b'\r' | b' ' | b'/' | b'>'
+                ))
+        {
+            result.push_str(&code[copied..=i]);
+            result.push('\\');
+            copied = i + 1;
+            i += 2;
+        } else {
+            i += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    result.push_str(&code[copied..]);
+    result
+}
diff --git a/tests/_data_/script-escape/index.html b/tests/_data_/script-escape/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2dc7613d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/_data_/script-escape/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Script end tag escaping</title>
+    <script src="script.js"></script>
+</head>
+<body>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/tests/_data_/script-escape/script.js b/tests/_data_/script-escape/script.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5a5fdf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/_data_/script-escape/script.js
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+var a = "</script>";
+var b = "</SCRIPT>";
+var c = "</script >";
+var d = "</script/>";
+var e = "</scripts>";
diff --git a/tests/cli/local_files.rs b/tests/cli/local_files.rs
index 06d29272..24403dfd 100644
--- a/tests/cli/local_files.rs
+++ b/tests/cli/local_files.rs
@@ -409,6 +409,57 @@ document.body.style.color = "red";
         <script src="script.js"></script>
     "##.to_owned() + r##"
 
+</body></html>
+"##
+        );
+
+        // Exit code should be 0
+        out.assert().code(0);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn escape_script_end_tag_variants_in_local_asset() {
+        let mut cmd = Command::cargo_bin(env!("CARGO_PKG_NAME")).unwrap();
+        let cwd_normalized: String = env::current_dir()
+            .unwrap()
+            .to_str()
+            .unwrap()
+            .replace("\\", "/");
+        let file_url_protocol: &str = if cfg!(windows) { "file:///" } else { "file://" };
+        let out = cmd
+            .arg("-M")
+            .arg("tests/_data_/script-escape/index.html")
+            .output()
+            .unwrap();
+
+        // STDERR should contain list of retrieved file URLs
+        assert_eq!(
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr),
+            format!(
+                r#"{file}{cwd}/tests/_data_/script-escape/index.html
+{file}{cwd}/tests/_data_/script-escape/script.js
+"#,
+                file = file_url_protocol,
+                cwd = cwd_normalized,
+            )
+        );
+
+        // STDOUT should contain every closing SCRIPT tag variant escaped,
+        // while the longer tag name in `</scripts>` stays untouched
+        assert_eq!(
+            String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stdout),
+            r##"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>
+    <title>Script end tag escaping</title>
+    <script>var a = "<\/script>";
+var b = "<\/SCRIPT>";
+var c = "<\/script >";
+var d = "<\/script/>";
+var e = "</scripts>";
+</script>
+<meta name="robots" content="none"></meta></head>
+<body>
+
+
 </body></html>
 "##
         );
diff --git a/tests/js/escape_script_end_tag.rs b/tests/js/escape_script_end_tag.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1161b8fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/js/escape_script_end_tag.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+//  ██████╗  █████╗ ███████╗███████╗██╗███╗   ██╗ ██████╗
+//  ██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝██║████╗  ██║██╔════╝
+//  ██████╔╝███████║███████╗███████╗██║██╔██╗ ██║██║  ███╗
+//  ██╔═══╝ ██╔══██║╚════██║╚════██║██║██║╚██╗██║██║   ██║
+//  ██║     ██║  ██║███████║███████║██║██║ ╚████║╚██████╔╝
+//  ╚═╝     ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═══╝ ╚═════╝
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod passing {
+    use monolith::js;
+
+    #[test]
+    fn plain_code() {
+        assert_eq!(js::escape_script_end_tag("var a = 1;"), "var a = 1;");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn lowercase_end_tag() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(r#"s = "<script></script>";"#),
+            r#"s = "<script><\/script>";"#,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn uppercase_end_tag() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(r#"s = "</SCRIPT>";"#),
+            r#"s = "<\/SCRIPT>";"#,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn mixed_case_end_tag() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(r#"s = "</ScRiPt>";"#),
+            r#"s = "<\/ScRiPt>";"#,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn end_tag_with_trailing_whitespace() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(
+                "s = \"</script >\"; s = \"</script\t>\"; s = \"</script\n>\";"
+            ),
+            "s = \"<\\/script >\"; s = \"<\\/script\t>\"; s = \"<\\/script\n>\";",
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn end_tag_with_solidus() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(r#"s = "</script/>";"#),
+            r#"s = "<\/script/>";"#,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn end_tag_at_eof() {
+        assert_eq!(js::escape_script_end_tag("a</script"), "a<\\/script");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn multiple_end_tags() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag("</script></SCRIPT>"),
+            "<\\/script><\\/SCRIPT>",
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn multibyte_chars_before_end_tag() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag("let s = \"\u{2715}</script>\";"),
+            "let s = \"\u{2715}<\\/script>\";",
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn longer_tag_name_stays_untouched() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag(r#"s = "</scripts>"; t = "</scriptx>";"#),
+            r#"s = "</scripts>"; t = "</scriptx>";"#,
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn lone_less_than_and_open_tag_stay_untouched() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            js::escape_script_end_tag("a < b; s = \"<script>\"; t = \"</scr\";"),
+            "a < b; s = \"<script>\"; t = \"</scr\";",
+        );
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/js/mod.rs b/tests/js/mod.rs
index 46bcf249..9375c615 100644
--- a/tests/js/mod.rs
+++ b/tests/js/mod.rs
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 mod attr_is_event_handler;
+mod escape_script_end_tag;