diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.txt b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5df6241a8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/expected/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+  PASS
diff --git a/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.html b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..46301fc433
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Tests/LibWeb/Text/input/HTML/set-innerHTML-with-script.html
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<script src="../include.js"></script>
+<div id=container></div>
+<script type="text/javascript">
+    test(() => {
+        let container = document.getElementById("container");
+        container.innerHTML = '<script><\/script>';
+        println("PASS");
+    });
+</script>
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLScriptElement.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLScriptElement.cpp
index 79b413e6e2..65b2f523c1 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLScriptElement.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLScriptElement.cpp
@@ -71,6 +71,11 @@ void HTMLScriptElement::begin_delaying_document_load_event(DOM::Document& docume
 // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#execute-the-script-block
 void HTMLScriptElement::execute_script()
 {
+    // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-lifecycle.html#read-html
+    // Before any script execution occurs, the user agent must wait for scripts may run for the newly-created document to be true for document.
+    if (!m_document->ready_to_run_scripts())
+        main_thread_event_loop().spin_until([&] { return m_document->ready_to_run_scripts(); });
+
     // 1. Let document be el's node document.
     JS::NonnullGCPtr<DOM::Document> document = this->document();
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLParser.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLParser.cpp
index b88ccca90b..19b0f8220c 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLParser.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/Parser/HTMLParser.cpp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2020-2022, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
  * Copyright (c) 2021, Luke Wilde <lukew@serenityos.org>
- * Copyright (c) 2023, Shannon Booth <shannon@serenityos.org>
+ * Copyright (c) 2023-2024, Shannon Booth <shannon@serenityos.org>
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
  */
@@ -2729,12 +2729,6 @@ void HTMLParser::handle_text(HTMLToken& token)
 
     // -> An end tag whose tag name is "script"
     if (token.is_end_tag() && token.tag_name() == HTML::TagNames::script) {
-        // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-lifecycle.html#read-html
-        // Before any script execution occurs, the user agent must wait for scripts may run for the newly-created document to be true for document.
-        if (!m_document->ready_to_run_scripts()) {
-            main_thread_event_loop().spin_until([&] { return m_document->ready_to_run_scripts(); });
-        }
-
         // FIXME: If the active speculative HTML parser is null and the JavaScript execution context stack is empty, then perform a microtask checkpoint.
 
         // Non-standard: Make sure the <script> element has up-to-date text content before preparing the script.