diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 63077523aaa..917f9ed3a87 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 
 v 8.8.0 (unreleased)
   - Assign labels and milestone to target project when moving issue. !3934 (Long Nguyen)
+  - Use a case-insensitive comparison in sanitizing URI schemes
   - Project#open_branches has been cleaned up and no longer loads entire records into memory.
   - Escape HTML in commit titles in system note messages
   - Improve multiple branch push performance by memoizing permission checking
diff --git a/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter.rb b/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter.rb
index 42dbab9d27e..ca80aac5a08 100644
--- a/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter.rb
+++ b/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter.rb
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ module Banzai
 
           begin
             uri = Addressable::URI.parse(node['href'])
-            uri.scheme.strip! if uri.scheme
+            uri.scheme = uri.scheme.strip.downcase if uri.scheme
 
             node.remove_attribute('href') if UNSAFE_PROTOCOLS.include?(uri.scheme)
           rescue Addressable::URI::InvalidURIError
diff --git a/spec/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter_spec.rb b/spec/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter_spec.rb
index 27ce312b11c..b38e3b17e64 100644
--- a/spec/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/banzai/filter/sanitization_filter_spec.rb
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ describe Banzai::Filter::SanitizationFilter, lib: true do
       expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq exp
     end
 
+    it 'sanitizes mixed-cased javascript in attributes' do
+      act = %q(<a href="javaScript:alert('foo')">Text</a>)
+      exp = '<a>Text</a>'
+      expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq exp
+    end
+
     it 'allows whitelisted HTML tags from the user' do
       exp = act = "<dl>\n<dt>Term</dt>\n<dd>Definition</dd>\n</dl>"
       expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq exp