diff --git a/crates/codecs/src/resolution.rs b/crates/codecs/src/resolution.rs
index cb86001ac9..a787cacbc3 100644
--- a/crates/codecs/src/resolution.rs
+++ b/crates/codecs/src/resolution.rs
@@ -429,8 +429,14 @@ fn xmp_values(xmp: &str, key: &str) -> Vec<(usize, usize)> {
             continue;
         };
         let start = xmp.len() - value.len();
-        let Some(len) = value.find(close) else { continue };
+        // Advance past this value before searching for the next key. Without this, `from`
+        // only moved past the key text, so property-like text repeated inside an unrelated
+        // attribute re-ran this full-suffix `find(close)` for every occurrence, which is
+        // quadratic in the packet size. A missing close means the value is unterminated, so
+        // no later value can parse either; stop scanning in that case.
+        let Some(len) = value.find(close) else { break };
         out.push((start, start + len));
+        from = start + len + close.len_utf8();
     }
     out
 }
diff --git a/crates/codecs/tests/resolution.rs b/crates/codecs/tests/resolution.rs
index 15ddc95749..28c8203c96 100644
--- a/crates/codecs/tests/resolution.rs
+++ b/crates/codecs/tests/resolution.rs
@@ -284,6 +284,17 @@ fn truncated_metadata_never_panics_and_falls_back() {
         assert_eq!(xmp_resolution(x), None, "{x}");
         let _ = xmp_with_resolution(x, (1.0, 1.0));
     }
+
+    // Property-like text repeated inside the packet must not trigger a full-suffix rescan
+    // per occurrence (it used to be quadratic). With the cursor advancing past each located
+    // value, this completes well under a second even with many decoys; a timeout here would
+    // indicate the quadratic scan returned. A clean packet still extracts correctly.
+    let start = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let decoys = " tiff:ResolutionUnit>".repeat(50_000);
+    let _ = xmp_resolution(&decoys);
+    assert!(start.elapsed() < std::time::Duration::from_secs(2), "xmp scan took too long: {:?}", start.elapsed());
+    let clean = "<tiff:XResolution>300/1</tiff:XResolution><tiff:YResolution>300/1</tiff:YResolution><tiff:ResolutionUnit>2</tiff:ResolutionUnit>";
+    near(xmp_resolution(clean), 300.0);
 }
 
 proptest! {