diff --git a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
index 50536dc1a5..0c718757b7 100644
--- a/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
+++ b/src/Content/Text/BBCode.php
@@ -2163,4 +2163,22 @@ class BBCode
 
 		return $ret;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Perform a custom function on a text after having escaped blocks enclosed in the provided tag list.
+	 *
+	 * @param string   $text
+	 * @param array    $tagList A list of tag names, e.g ['noparse', 'nobb', 'pre']
+	 * @param callable $callback
+	 * @return string
+	 * @throws Exception
+	 *@see Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks
+	 *
+	 */
+	public static function performWithEscapedTags(string $text, array $tagList, callable $callback)
+	{
+		$tagList = array_map('preg_quote', $tagList);
+
+		return Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks($text, '#\[(?:' . implode('|', $tagList) . ').*?\[/(?:' . implode('|', $tagList) . ')]#ism', $callback);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/Util/Strings.php b/src/Util/Strings.php
index 04d676ef57..35e7ebe151 100644
--- a/src/Util/Strings.php
+++ b/src/Util/Strings.php
@@ -472,4 +472,52 @@ class Strings
 
 		return mb_substr($string, 0, $start) . $replacement . mb_substr($string, $start + $length, $string_length - $start - $length);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Perform a custom function on a text after having escaped blocks matched by the provided regular expressions.
+	 * Only full matches are used, capturing group are ignored.
+	 *
+	 * To change the provided text, the callback function needs to return it and this function will return the modified
+	 * version as well after having restored the escaped blocks.
+	 *
+	 * @param string   $text
+	 * @param string   $regex
+	 * @param callable $callback
+	 * @return string
+	 * @throws \Exception
+	 */
+	public static function performWithEscapedBlocks(string $text, string $regex, callable $callback)
+	{
+		// Enables nested use
+		$executionId = random_int(PHP_INT_MAX / 10, PHP_INT_MAX);
+
+		$blocks = [];
+
+		$text = preg_replace_callback($regex,
+			function ($matches) use ($executionId, &$blocks) {
+				$return = '«block-' . $executionId . '-' . count($blocks) . '»';
+
+				$blocks[] = $matches[0];
+
+				return $return;
+			},
+			$text
+		);
+
+		$text = $callback($text) ?? '';
+
+		// Restore code blocks
+		$text = preg_replace_callback('/«block-' . $executionId . '-([0-9]+)»/iU',
+			function ($matches) use ($blocks) {
+				$return = $matches[0];
+				if (isset($blocks[intval($matches[1])])) {
+					$return = $blocks[$matches[1]];
+				}
+				return $return;
+			},
+			$text
+		);
+
+		return $text;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/src/Util/StringsTest.php b/tests/src/Util/StringsTest.php
index 66fb2f0f53..611d72fe7c 100644
--- a/tests/src/Util/StringsTest.php
+++ b/tests/src/Util/StringsTest.php
@@ -194,4 +194,30 @@ class StringsTest extends TestCase
 			)
 		);
 	}
+
+	public function testPerformWithEscapedBlocks()
+	{
+		$originalText = '[noparse][/noparse][nobb]nobb[/nobb][noparse]noparse[/noparse]';
+
+		$text = Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks($originalText, '#[(?:noparse|nobb)].*?\[/(?:noparse|nobb)]#is', function ($text) {
+			return $text;
+		});
+
+		$this->assertEquals($originalText, $text);
+	}
+
+	public function testPerformWithEscapedBlocksNested()
+	{
+		$originalText = '[noparse][/noparse][nobb]nobb[/nobb][noparse]noparse[/noparse]';
+
+		$text = Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks($originalText, '#[nobb].*?\[/nobb]#is', function ($text) {
+			$text = Strings::performWithEscapedBlocks($text, '#[noparse].*?\[/noparse]#is', function ($text) {
+				return $text;
+			});
+
+			return $text;
+		});
+
+		$this->assertEquals($originalText, $text);
+	}
 }