diff --git a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
index e63d388..68ff2c5 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/standardfilters.rb
@@ -11,6 +11,12 @@ module Liquid
       "'".freeze => '''.freeze
     }.freeze
     HTML_ESCAPE_ONCE_REGEXP = /["><']|&(?!([a-zA-Z]+|(#\d+));)/
+    STRIP_HTML_BLOCKS = Regexp.union(
+      /<script.*?<\/script>/m,
+      /<!--.*?-->/m,
+      /<style.*?<\/style>/m
+    )
+    STRIP_HTML_TAGS = /<.*?>/m
 
     # Return the size of an array or of an string
     def size(input)
@@ -103,7 +109,9 @@ module Liquid
 
     def strip_html(input)
       empty = ''.freeze
-      input.to_s.gsub(/<script.*?<\/script>/m, empty).gsub(/<!--.*?-->/m, empty).gsub(/<style.*?<\/style>/m, empty).gsub(/<.*?>/m, empty)
+      result = input.to_s.gsub(STRIP_HTML_BLOCKS, empty)
+      result.gsub!(STRIP_HTML_TAGS, empty)
+      result
     end
 
     # Remove all newlines from the string
diff --git a/test/integration/standard_filter_test.rb b/test/integration/standard_filter_test.rb
index 0aa8bbf..98818eb 100644
--- a/test/integration/standard_filter_test.rb
+++ b/test/integration/standard_filter_test.rb
@@ -177,6 +177,9 @@ class StandardFiltersTest < Minitest::Test
     assert_equal 'test', @filters.strip_html("<div\nclass='multiline'>test</div>")
     assert_equal 'test', @filters.strip_html("<!-- foo bar \n test -->test")
     assert_equal '', @filters.strip_html(nil)
+
+    # Quirk of the existing implementation
+    assert_equal 'foo;', @filters.strip_html("<<<script </script>script>foo;</script>")
   end
 
   def test_join