diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 9419c1f3eb..a827292689 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 - issue #11752 Improve detection of privileges for privilege adjusting
 - issue #11854 Undefined property: stdClass::$releases at version check when disabled in config
 - issue #11814 SQL comment and variable stripped from bookmark on save
+- issue        Gracefully handle errors in regex based javascript search
 
 4.5.3.1 (2015-12-25)
 - issue #11774 Undefined offset 2
diff --git a/js/server_status_monitor.js b/js/server_status_monitor.js
index 14328a5975..55bc3b90ec 100644
--- a/js/server_status_monitor.js
+++ b/js/server_status_monitor.js
@@ -1695,7 +1695,15 @@ AJAX.registerOnload('server_status_monitor.js', function () {
             if (val.length === 0) {
                 textFilter = null;
             } else {
-                textFilter = new RegExp(val, 'i');
+                try {
+                    textFilter = new RegExp(val, 'i');
+                    $('#filterQueryText').removeClass('error');
+                } catch(e) {
+                    if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
+                        $('#filterQueryText').addClass('error');
+                        textFilter = null;
+                    }
+                }
             }
 
             var rowSum = 0, totalSum = 0, i = 0, q;
diff --git a/js/server_status_variables.js b/js/server_status_variables.js
index fa46f1fda9..47956f8464 100644
--- a/js/server_status_variables.js
+++ b/js/server_status_variables.js
@@ -48,7 +48,15 @@ AJAX.registerOnload('server_status_variables.js', function () {
         if (word.length === 0) {
             textFilter = null;
         } else {
-            textFilter = new RegExp("(^| )" + word, 'i');
+            try {
+                textFilter = new RegExp("(^| )" + word, 'i');
+                $(this).removeClass('error');
+            } catch(e) {
+                if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
+                    $(this).addClass('error');
+                    textFilter = null;
+                }
+            }
         }
         text = word;
         filterVariables();
diff --git a/js/server_variables.js b/js/server_variables.js
index 3b4dc11244..62f5ed7cf4 100644
--- a/js/server_variables.js
+++ b/js/server_variables.js
@@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ AJAX.registerOnload('server_variables.js', function () {
     $filterField.keyup(function () {
         var textFilter = null, val = $(this).val();
         if (val.length !== 0) {
-            textFilter = new RegExp("(^| )" + val.replace(/_/g, ' '), 'i');
+            try {
+                textFilter = new RegExp("(^| )" + val.replace(/_/g, ' '), 'i');
+                $(this).removeClass('error');
+            } catch(e) {
+                if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
+                    $(this).addClass('error');
+                    textFilter = null;
+                }
+            }
         }
         filterVariables(textFilter);
     });