From bd00c3b27115685246cd7409d6872b5ceb7efbf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muhammad Arslan <arslan.abdulrauf@arbisoft.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 22:42:32 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: self-closing script tag fixed for TinyMceEditor (#2608)
 (backport)

---
 src/editors/sharedComponents/TinyMceWidget/hooks.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/editors/sharedComponents/TinyMceWidget/hooks.ts b/src/editors/sharedComponents/TinyMceWidget/hooks.ts
index f89f1320a..4355855f9 100644
--- a/src/editors/sharedComponents/TinyMceWidget/hooks.ts
+++ b/src/editors/sharedComponents/TinyMceWidget/hooks.ts
@@ -457,6 +457,9 @@ export const editorConfig = ({
       valid_elements: '*[*]',
       // FIXME: this is passing 'utf-8', which is not a valid entity_encoding value. It should be 'named' etc.
       entity_encoding: 'utf-8' as any,
+      // Protect self-closing <script /> tags from being mangled,
+      // to preserve backwards compatibility with content that relied on this behavior
+      protect: [/<script[^>]*\/>/g],
     },
   };
 };