diff --git a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
index 8f8ae56..7a4593e 100644
--- a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
@@ -120,11 +120,7 @@
                 break
 
         # find an explicit query string, if present.
-        i = rest.rfind('?')
-        if i >= 0:
-            rest, query = rest[:i], rest[i+1:]
-        else:
-            query = ''
+        rest, _, query = rest.partition('?')
 
         # dissect the part after the directory name into a script name &
         # a possible additional path, to be stored in PATH_INFO.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
index 706dfc7..023180e 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_httpservers.py
@@ -381,6 +381,16 @@
                           form.getfirst("bacon"))
 """
 
+cgi_file4 = """\
+#!%s
+import os
+
+print("Content-type: text/html")
+print()
+
+print(os.environ["%s"])
+"""
+
 
 @unittest.skipIf(hasattr(os, 'geteuid') and os.geteuid() == 0,
         "This test can't be run reliably as root (issue #13308).")
@@ -424,6 +434,11 @@
             file3.write(cgi_file1 % self.pythonexe)
         os.chmod(self.file3_path, 0777)
 
+        self.file4_path = os.path.join(self.cgi_dir, 'file4.py')
+        with open(self.file4_path, 'w') as file4:
+            file4.write(cgi_file4 % (self.pythonexe, 'QUERY_STRING'))
+        os.chmod(self.file4_path, 0o777)
+
         self.cwd = os.getcwd()
         os.chdir(self.parent_dir)
 
@@ -436,6 +451,7 @@
             os.remove(self.file1_path)
             os.remove(self.file2_path)
             os.remove(self.file3_path)
+            os.remove(self.file4_path)
             os.rmdir(self.cgi_child_dir)
             os.rmdir(self.cgi_dir)
             os.rmdir(self.parent_dir)
@@ -536,6 +552,12 @@
         self.assertEqual((b'Hello World\n', 'text/html', 200),
                 (res.read(), res.getheader('Content-type'), res.status))
 
+    def test_query_with_multiple_question_mark(self):
+        res = self.request('/cgi-bin/file4.py?a=b?c=d')
+        self.assertEqual(
+            (b'a=b?c=d\n', 'text/html', 200),
+            (res.read(), res.getheader('Content-type'), res.status))
+
 
 class SimpleHTTPRequestHandlerTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     """ Test url parsing """
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index bdbb802..34f0a0a 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1505,6 +1505,7 @@
 Daniel Wozniak
 Heiko Wundram
 Doug Wyatt
+Xiang Zhang
 Robert Xiao
 Florent Xicluna
 Hirokazu Yamamoto
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0494fd1..f6e29b6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the
+  first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
+
 - Issue #22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary
   now accept the self keyword argument.