diff --git a/src/go/build/deps_test.go b/src/go/build/deps_test.go
index 2f335068b8..bea398fa95 100644
--- a/src/go/build/deps_test.go
+++ b/src/go/build/deps_test.go
@@ -245,15 +245,15 @@ var depsRules = `
 	< text/template
 	< internal/lazytemplate;
 
-	encoding/json, html, text/template
-	< html/template;
-
 	# regexp
 	FMT
 	< regexp/syntax
 	< regexp
 	< internal/lazyregexp;
 
+	encoding/json, html, text/template, regexp
+	< html/template;
+
 	# suffix array
 	encoding/binary, regexp
 	< index/suffixarray;
diff --git a/src/html/template/context.go b/src/html/template/context.go
index e07a0c4a02..7987713c65 100644
--- a/src/html/template/context.go
+++ b/src/html/template/context.go
@@ -174,6 +174,20 @@ func isInTag(s state) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// isInScriptLiteral returns true if s is one of the literal states within a
+// <script> tag, and as such occurances of "<!--", "<script", and "</script"
+// need to be treated specially.
+func isInScriptLiteral(s state) bool {
+	// Ignore the comment states (stateJSBlockCmt, stateJSLineCmt,
+	// stateJSHTMLOpenCmt, stateJSHTMLCloseCmt) because their content is already
+	// omitted from the output.
+	switch s {
+	case stateJSDqStr, stateJSSqStr, stateJSBqStr, stateJSRegexp:
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // delim is the delimiter that will end the current HTML attribute.
 type delim uint8
 
diff --git a/src/html/template/escape.go b/src/html/template/escape.go
index 473564c37a..01f6303a44 100644
--- a/src/html/template/escape.go
+++ b/src/html/template/escape.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"html"
 	"internal/godebug"
 	"io"
+	"regexp"
 	"text/template"
 	"text/template/parse"
 )
@@ -729,6 +730,26 @@ var delimEnds = [...]string{
 	delimSpaceOrTagEnd: " \t\n\f\r>",
 }
 
+var (
+	// Per WHATWG HTML specification, section 4.12.1.3, there are extremely
+	// complicated rules for how to handle the set of opening tags <!--,
+	// <script, and </script when they appear in JS literals (i.e. strings,
+	// regexs, and comments). The specification suggests a simple solution,
+	// rather than implementing the arcane ABNF, which involves simply escaping
+	// the opening bracket with \x3C. We use the below regex for this, since it
+	// makes doing the case-insensitive find-replace much simpler.
+	specialScriptTagRE          = regexp.MustCompile("(?i)<(script|/script|!--)")
+	specialScriptTagReplacement = []byte("\\x3C$1")
+)
+
+func containsSpecialScriptTag(s []byte) bool {
+	return specialScriptTagRE.Match(s)
+}
+
+func escapeSpecialScriptTags(s []byte) []byte {
+	return specialScriptTagRE.ReplaceAll(s, specialScriptTagReplacement)
+}
+
 var doctypeBytes = []byte("<!DOCTYPE")
 
 // escapeText escapes a text template node.
@@ -787,6 +808,11 @@ func (e *escaper) escapeText(c context, n *parse.TextNode) context {
 			b.Write(s[written:cs])
 			written = i1
 		}
+		if isInScriptLiteral(c.state) && containsSpecialScriptTag(s[i:i1]) {
+			b.Write(s[written:i])
+			b.Write(escapeSpecialScriptTags(s[i:i1]))
+			written = i1
+		}
 		if i == i1 && c.state == c1.state {
 			panic(fmt.Sprintf("infinite loop from %v to %v on %q..%q", c, c1, s[:i], s[i:]))
 		}
diff --git a/src/html/template/escape_test.go b/src/html/template/escape_test.go
index f60c875927..8a4f62e92f 100644
--- a/src/html/template/escape_test.go
+++ b/src/html/template/escape_test.go
@@ -513,6 +513,21 @@ func TestEscape(t *testing.T) {
 			"<script>#! beep\n</script>",
 			"<script>\n</script>",
 		},
+		{
+			"Special tags in <script> string literals",
+			`<script>var a = "asd < 123 <!-- 456 < fgh <script jkl < 789 </script"</script>`,
+			`<script>var a = "asd < 123 \x3C!-- 456 < fgh \x3Cscript jkl < 789 \x3C/script"</script>`,
+		},
+		{
+			"Special tags in <script> string literals (mixed case)",
+			`<script>var a = "<!-- <ScripT </ScripT"</script>`,
+			`<script>var a = "\x3C!-- \x3CScripT \x3C/ScripT"</script>`,
+		},
+		{
+			"Special tags in <script> regex literals (mixed case)",
+			`<script>var a = /<!-- <ScripT </ScripT/</script>`,
+			`<script>var a = /\x3C!-- \x3CScripT \x3C/ScripT/</script>`,
+		},
 		{
 			"CSS comments",
 			"<style>p// paragraph\n" +
@@ -1533,8 +1548,38 @@ func TestEscapeText(t *testing.T) {
 			context{state: stateJS, element: elementScript},
 		},
 		{
+			// <script and </script tags are escaped, so </script> should not
+			// cause us to exit the JS state.
 			`<script>document.write("<script>alert(1)</script>");`,
-			context{state: stateText},
+			context{state: stateJS, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>document.write("<script>`,
+			context{state: stateJSDqStr, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>document.write("<script>alert(1)</script>`,
+			context{state: stateJSDqStr, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>document.write("<script>alert(1)<!--`,
+			context{state: stateJSDqStr, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>document.write("<script>alert(1)</Script>");`,
+			context{state: stateJS, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>document.write("<!--");`,
+			context{state: stateJS, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>let a = /</script`,
+			context{state: stateJSRegexp, element: elementScript},
+		},
+		{
+			`<script>let a = /</script/`,
+			context{state: stateJS, element: elementScript, jsCtx: jsCtxDivOp},
 		},
 		{
 			`<script type="text/template">`,
diff --git a/src/html/template/transition.go b/src/html/template/transition.go
index d8ff18abb0..432c365d3c 100644
--- a/src/html/template/transition.go
+++ b/src/html/template/transition.go
@@ -214,6 +214,11 @@ var (
 // element states.
 func tSpecialTagEnd(c context, s []byte) (context, int) {
 	if c.element != elementNone {
+		// script end tags ("</script") within script literals are ignored, so that
+		// we can properly escape them.
+		if c.element == elementScript && (isInScriptLiteral(c.state) || isComment(c.state)) {
+			return c, len(s)
+		}
 		if i := indexTagEnd(s, specialTagEndMarkers[c.element]); i != -1 {
 			return context{}, i
 		}
@@ -353,6 +358,16 @@ func tJSDelimited(c context, s []byte) (context, int) {
 			inCharset = true
 		case ']':
 			inCharset = false
+		case '/':
+			// If "</script" appears in a regex literal, the '/' should not
+			// close the regex literal, and it will later be escaped to
+			// "\x3C/script" in escapeText.
+			if i > 0 && i+7 <= len(s) && bytes.Compare(bytes.ToLower(s[i-1:i+7]), []byte("</script")) == 0 {
+				i++
+			} else if !inCharset {
+				c.state, c.jsCtx = stateJS, jsCtxDivOp
+				return c, i + 1
+			}
 		default:
 			// end delimiter
 			if !inCharset {