diff --git a/src/validation.cpp b/src/validation.cpp
index 621077bcba..463c16c11f 100644
--- a/src/validation.cpp
+++ b/src/validation.cpp
@@ -399,6 +399,42 @@ void UpdateMempoolForReorg(DisconnectedBlockTransactions &disconnectpool, bool f
     LimitMempoolSize(mempool, GetArg("-maxmempool", DEFAULT_MAX_MEMPOOL_SIZE) * 1000000, GetArg("-mempoolexpiry", DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_EXPIRY) * 60 * 60);
 }
 
+// Used to avoid mempool polluting consensus critical paths if CCoinsViewMempool
+// were somehow broken and returning the wrong scriptPubKeys
+static bool CheckInputsFromMempoolAndCache(const CTransaction& tx, CValidationState &state, const CCoinsViewCache &view, CTxMemPool& pool,
+                 unsigned int flags, bool cacheSigStore, PrecomputedTransactionData& txdata) {
+    AssertLockHeld(cs_main);
+
+    // pool.cs should be locked already, but go ahead and re-take the lock here
+    // to enforce that mempool doesn't change between when we check the view
+    // and when we actually call through to CheckInputs
+    LOCK(pool.cs);
+
+    assert(!tx.IsCoinBase());
+    for (const CTxIn& txin : tx.vin) {
+        const Coin& coin = view.AccessCoin(txin.prevout);
+
+        // At this point we haven't actually checked if the coins are all
+        // available (or shouldn't assume we have, since CheckInputs does).
+        // So we just return failure if the inputs are not available here,
+        // and then only have to check equivalence for available inputs.
+        if (coin.IsSpent()) return false;
+
+        const CTransactionRef& txFrom = pool.get(txin.prevout.hash);
+        if (txFrom) {
+            assert(txFrom->GetHash() == txin.prevout.hash);
+            assert(txFrom->vout.size() > txin.prevout.n);
+            assert(txFrom->vout[txin.prevout.n] == coin.out);
+        } else {
+            const Coin& coinFromDisk = pcoinsTip->AccessCoin(txin.prevout);
+            assert(!coinFromDisk.IsSpent());
+            assert(coinFromDisk.out == coin.out);
+        }
+    }
+
+    return CheckInputs(tx, state, view, true, flags, cacheSigStore, true, txdata);
+}
+
 static bool AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker(const CChainParams& chainparams, CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState& state, const CTransactionRef& ptx, bool fLimitFree,
                               bool* pfMissingInputs, int64_t nAcceptTime, std::list<CTransactionRef>* plTxnReplaced,
                               bool fOverrideMempoolLimit, const CAmount& nAbsurdFee, std::vector<COutPoint>& coins_to_uncache)
@@ -782,7 +818,7 @@ static bool AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker(const CChainParams& chainparams, CTxMemPool
         // invalid blocks (using TestBlockValidity), however allowing such
         // transactions into the mempool can be exploited as a DoS attack.
         unsigned int currentBlockScriptVerifyFlags = GetBlockScriptFlags(chainActive.Tip(), Params().GetConsensus());
-        if (!CheckInputs(tx, state, view, true, currentBlockScriptVerifyFlags, true, true, txdata))
+        if (!CheckInputsFromMempoolAndCache(tx, state, view, pool, currentBlockScriptVerifyFlags, true, txdata))
         {
             // If we're using promiscuousmempoolflags, we may hit this normally
             // Check if current block has some flags that scriptVerifyFlags