diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f9e5afb09..c07d8bb45 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ benchmark: ## Run benchmarks
 help: ## Display this help screen
 	@grep -h -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
 
-goversion ?= "1.19"
-test_version: ## Run tests inside Docker with given version (defaults to 1.19 oldest supported). Example: make test_version goversion=1.19
+goversion ?= "1.20"
+test_version: ## Run tests inside Docker with given version (defaults to 1.20 oldest supported). Example: make test_version goversion=1.20
 	@docker run --rm -it -v $(shell pwd):/project golang:$(goversion) /bin/sh -c "cd /project && make init check"
diff --git a/middleware/cors.go b/middleware/cors.go
index 7af6a76f3..a1f445321 100644
--- a/middleware/cors.go
+++ b/middleware/cors.go
@@ -147,13 +147,25 @@ func CORSWithConfig(config CORSConfig) echo.MiddlewareFunc {
 		config.AllowMethods = DefaultCORSConfig.AllowMethods
 	}
 
-	allowOriginPatterns := []string{}
+	allowOriginPatterns := make([]*regexp.Regexp, 0, len(config.AllowOrigins))
 	for _, origin := range config.AllowOrigins {
+		if origin == "*" {
+			continue // "*" is handled differently and does not need regexp
+		}
 		pattern := regexp.QuoteMeta(origin)
 		pattern = strings.ReplaceAll(pattern, "\\*", ".*")
 		pattern = strings.ReplaceAll(pattern, "\\?", ".")
 		pattern = "^" + pattern + "$"
-		allowOriginPatterns = append(allowOriginPatterns, pattern)
+
+		re, err := regexp.Compile(pattern)
+		if err != nil {
+			// this is to preserve previous behaviour - invalid patterns were just ignored.
+			// If we would turn this to panic, users with invalid patterns
+			// would have applications crashing in production due unrecovered panic.
+			// TODO: this should be turned to error/panic in `v5`
+			continue
+		}
+		allowOriginPatterns = append(allowOriginPatterns, re)
 	}
 
 	allowMethods := strings.Join(config.AllowMethods, ",")
@@ -239,7 +251,7 @@ func CORSWithConfig(config CORSConfig) echo.MiddlewareFunc {
 				}
 				if checkPatterns {
 					for _, re := range allowOriginPatterns {
-						if match, _ := regexp.MatchString(re, origin); match {
+						if match := re.MatchString(origin); match {
 							allowOrigin = origin
 							break
 						}
diff --git a/middleware/cors_test.go b/middleware/cors_test.go
index 64e5c6542..5461e9362 100644
--- a/middleware/cors_test.go
+++ b/middleware/cors_test.go
@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ func TestCORS(t *testing.T) {
 			name:             "ok, wildcard AllowedOrigin with no Origin header in request",
 			notExpectHeaders: map[string]string{echo.HeaderAccessControlAllowOrigin: ""},
 		},
+		{
+			name: "ok, invalid pattern is ignored",
+			givenMW: CORSWithConfig(CORSConfig{
+				AllowOrigins: []string{
+					"\xff", // Invalid UTF-8 makes regexp.Compile to error
+					"*.example.com",
+				},
+			}),
+			whenMethod:    http.MethodOptions,
+			whenHeaders:   map[string]string{echo.HeaderOrigin: "http://aaa.example.com"},
+			expectHeaders: map[string]string{echo.HeaderAccessControlAllowOrigin: "http://aaa.example.com"},
+		},
 		{
 			name: "ok, specific AllowOrigins and AllowCredentials",
 			givenMW: CORSWithConfig(CORSConfig{