diff --git a/benchmark/url/url-searchparams-percent-scan.js b/benchmark/url/url-searchparams-percent-scan.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..03a6abe2a85f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmark/url/url-searchparams-percent-scan.js
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common.js');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+
+const bench = common.createBenchmark(main, {
+  n: [1e5],
+  length: [32, 1024],
+  position: ['start', 'end'],
+  encoding: ['valid', 'invalid', 'unicode', 'plain'],
+});
+
+function main({ n, length, position, encoding }) {
+  const prefix = 'a'.repeat(length);
+  const [encoded, decoded] = {
+    valid: ['%20', ' '],
+    invalid: ['%zz', '%zz'],
+    unicode: ['%E2%82%AC', '\u20ac'],
+    plain: ['text', 'text'],
+  }[encoding];
+  const input = position === 'start' ? encoded + prefix : prefix + encoded;
+  const expected = position === 'start' ? decoded + prefix : prefix + decoded;
+  const query = `key=${input}`;
+  for (let index = 0; index < 1000; index++) {
+    new URLSearchParams(query);
+  }
+
+  let result;
+  bench.start();
+  for (let index = 0; index < n; index++) {
+    result = new URLSearchParams(query);
+  }
+  bench.end(n);
+  assert.deepStrictEqual([...result], [['key', expected]]);
+}
diff --git a/lib/internal/url.js b/lib/internal/url.js
index 471df4db439e..86bd6ce5c221 100644
--- a/lib/internal/url.js
+++ b/lib/internal/url.js
@@ -1322,11 +1322,11 @@ function unescapeFormComponent(s) {
   }
 }
 
-function hasPercentHex(s) {
+function hasPercentHex(s, start) {
   const end = s.length - 2;
-  for (let i = 0; i < end; i++) {
-    if (StringPrototypeCharCodeAt(s, i) === 37 && // '%'
-        isHexTable[StringPrototypeCharCodeAt(s, i + 1)] === 1 &&
+  for (let i = start; i !== -1 && i < end;
+    i = StringPrototypeIndexOf(s, '%', i + 1)) {
+    if (isHexTable[StringPrototypeCharCodeAt(s, i + 1)] === 1 &&
         isHexTable[StringPrototypeCharCodeAt(s, i + 2)] === 1) {
       return true;
     }
@@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ function decodeFormComponent(qs, start, end) {
   // Only percent-decode when a complete %HH sequence exists. A lone '%' or
   // a '%' followed by a non-hex character must be left intact so later
   // serialization can encode the raw bytes.
-  if (pct === -1 || !hasPercentHex(replaced)) {
+  if (pct === -1 || !hasPercentHex(replaced, pct)) {
     return replaced;
   }
   return unescapeFormComponent(replaced);
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-searchparams-percent-scan.js b/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-searchparams-percent-scan.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9b8b2d8c0851
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-whatwg-url-searchparams-percent-scan.js
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+'use strict';
+
+require('../common');
+const assert = require('node:assert');
+
+const cases = [
+  ['%41', 'A'],
+  ['%zz', '%zz'],
+  ['%zz%41', '%zzA'],
+  ['%', '%'],
+  ['%A', '%A'],
+  ['%C3%A9', '\u00e9'],
+  ['%F0%9F%98%80', '\ud83d\ude00'],
+  ['%FF', '\ufffd'],
+  ['%E2%82', '\ufffd'],
+];
+
+for (const prefix of ['', 'k'.repeat(32), 'k'.repeat(1024), 'k+'.repeat(64)]) {
+  const decodedPrefix = prefix.replaceAll('+', ' ');
+  for (const [encoded, decoded] of cases) {
+    for (const position of ['start', 'end']) {
+      const input = position === 'start' ? encoded + prefix : prefix + encoded;
+      const expected = position === 'start' ?
+        decoded + decodedPrefix : decodedPrefix + decoded;
+      const query = `${input}=${input}`;
+      assert.deepStrictEqual([...new URLSearchParams(query)], [[expected, expected]]);
+      const url = new URL(`https://example.org/?${query}`);
+      assert.deepStrictEqual([...url.searchParams], [[expected, expected]]);
+    }
+  }
+}