diff --git a/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php b/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php
index 39196499fa..4bdb75fcac 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ class WP_HTML_Processor extends WP_HTML_Tag_Processor {
 	 * @return static|null The created processor if successful, otherwise null.
 	 */
 	public function create_fragment_at_current_node( string $html ) {
-		if ( $this->get_token_type() !== '#tag' ) {
+		if ( $this->get_token_type() !== '#tag' || $this->is_tag_closer() ) {
 			return null;
 		}
 
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessor.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessor.php
index a19af13c78..f80260cbc1 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessor.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/html-api/wpHtmlProcessor.php
@@ -1103,6 +1103,23 @@ class Tests_HtmlApi_WpHtmlProcessor extends WP_UnitTestCase {
 		$this->assertTrue( $fragment->expects_closer() );
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @ticket 62357
+	 */
+	public function test_prevent_fragment_creation_on_closers() {
+		$processor = WP_HTML_Processor::create_full_parser( '<p></p>' );
+		$processor->next_tag( 'P' );
+		$processor->next_tag(
+			array(
+				'tag_name'    => 'P',
+				'tag_closers' => 'visit',
+			)
+		);
+		$this->assertSame( 'P', $processor->get_tag() );
+		$this->assertTrue( $processor->is_tag_closer() );
+		$this->assertNull( $processor->create_fragment_at_current_node( '<i>fragment HTML</i>' ) );
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Ensure that lowercased tag_name query matches tags case-insensitively.
 	 *