diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index bb6ea45632..cc5e76bdb5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ function wpautop($pee, $br = 1) {
 	$pee = str_replace('</blockquote></p>', '</p></blockquote>', $pee);
 	$pee = preg_replace('!<p>\s*(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|hr|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)!', "$1", $pee);
 	$pee = preg_replace('!(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|colgroup|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*</p>!', "$1", $pee); 
-	if ($br) $pee = preg_replace('|(?<!<br />)\s*\n|', "<br />\n", $pee); // optionally make line breaks
+	if ($br) {
+		$pee = preg_replace('/<(script|style).*?<\/\\1>/se', 'str_replace("\n", "<WPPreserveNewline />", "\\0")', $pee);
+		$pee = preg_replace('|(?<!<br />)\s*\n|', "<br />\n", $pee); // optionally make line breaks
+		$pee = str_replace('<WPPreserveNewline />', "\n", $pee);
+	}
 	$pee = preg_replace('!(</?(?:table|thead|tfoot|caption|tbody|tr|td|th|div|dl|dd|dt|ul|ol|li|pre|select|form|blockquote|address|math|p|h[1-6])[^>]*>)\s*<br />!', "$1", $pee);
 	$pee = preg_replace('!<br />(\s*</?(?:p|li|div|dl|dd|dt|th|pre|td|ul|ol)>)!', '$1', $pee);
 	$pee = preg_replace('!(<pre.*?>)(.*?)</pre>!ise', " stripslashes('$1') .  stripslashes(clean_pre('$2'))  . '</pre>' ", $pee);