diff --git a/cgi.go b/cgi.go
index 427fcdab71..fedf1fe84f 100644
--- a/cgi.go
+++ b/cgi.go
@@ -322,17 +322,22 @@ func cleanRequestPath(reqPath string, windows bool) string {
 }
 
 // escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript reports whether cleaning the escaped path, as Caddy's path matchers do for patterns containing "%", leads to another script than cleaning the decoded one.
-func escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(u *url.URL, splitPath []string) bool {
-	if u.RawPath == "" {
+func escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(u *url.URL, splitPath []string, windows bool) bool {
+	// on Windows, those matchers read a backslash, escaped even without RawPath, as an escaped separator
+	backslash := windows && strings.Contains(u.Path, `\`)
+	if u.RawPath == "" && !backslash {
 		return false
 	}
 
-	windows := runtime.GOOS == "windows"
 	escaped, err := url.PathUnescape(cleanRequestPath(u.EscapedPath(), windows))
 	if err != nil {
 		return true
 	}
 
+	if backslash {
+		escaped = strings.ReplaceAll(escaped, `\`, "/")
+	}
+
 	if splitPath == nil {
 		splitPath = []string{".php"}
 	}
diff --git a/cgi_test.go b/cgi_test.go
index 21ecde7b22..a046952d04 100644
--- a/cgi_test.go
+++ b/cgi_test.go
@@ -277,7 +277,36 @@ func TestEscapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(t *testing.T) {
 			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
 				return
 			}
-			assert.Equal(t, tt.expected, escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(u, nil))
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.expected, escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(u, nil, false))
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEscapedPathSelectsAnotherScriptWindows(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		target   string
+		expected bool
+	}{
+		{`/dir\index.php`, false},
+		{`/dir\index.php\info`, false},
+		{"/dir%5Cindex.php/info", false},
+		{"/index.php/a%5C..%5Cb", false},
+		{`/public/tool.php\..\..\admin\tool.php`, true},
+		{"/public/tool.php%5C..%5C..%5Cadmin%5Ctool.php", true},
+		{"/public/tool.php%2f..%2f..%2fadmin%2ftool.php", true},
+	}
+
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.target, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			u, err := url.ParseRequestURI(tt.target)
+			if !assert.NoError(t, err) {
+				return
+			}
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.expected, escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(u, nil, true))
 		})
 	}
 }
diff --git a/context.go b/context.go
index b36e82a543..07f58ef599 100644
--- a/context.go
+++ b/context.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ func (fc *frankenPHPContext) closeContext() {
 
 // validate checks if the request should be outright rejected
 func (fc *frankenPHPContext) validate() error {
-	if strings.Contains(fc.request.URL.Path, "\x00") || escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(fc.request.URL, fc.splitPath) {
+	if strings.Contains(fc.request.URL.Path, "\x00") || escapedPathSelectsAnotherScript(fc.request.URL, fc.splitPath, runtime.GOOS == "windows") {
 		fc.reject(ErrInvalidRequestPath)
 
 		return ErrInvalidRequestPath