diff --git a/DEVELOPERS b/DEVELOPERS
index fea3311076..28fe821a6a 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS
+++ b/DEVELOPERS
@@ -3437,6 +3437,7 @@ F:	package/evilwm/
 F:	package/fbv/
 F:	package/libpam-pkcs11/
 F:	package/mksh/
+F:	package/perl-cgi/
 F:	package/ruby/
 F:	package/uclibc/
 F:	package/uclibc-ng-test/
diff --git a/package/Config.in b/package/Config.in
index 1c0f6d8a29..c4f279efbb 100644
--- a/package/Config.in
+++ b/package/Config.in
@@ -814,6 +814,7 @@ menu "Perl libraries/modules"
 	source "package/perl-apache-logformat-compiler/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-appconfig/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-astro-suntime/Config.in"
+	source "package/perl-cgi/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-class-inspector/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-class-load/Config.in"
 	source "package/perl-class-method-modifiers/Config.in"
diff --git a/package/perl-cgi/Config.in b/package/perl-cgi/Config.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1c4292483c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-cgi/Config.in
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_CGI
+	bool "perl-cgi"
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_HTML_PARSER # runtime
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_URI # runtime
+	help
+	  Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses.
+
+	  https://metacpan.org/module/CGI
+
+comment "perl-cgi needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library"
+	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS
diff --git a/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.hash b/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa4544493c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# retrieved by scancpan from http://cpan.metacpan.org/
+md5  ea0c7b5b002f100f23b11ac9487088a9  CGI-4.72.tar.gz
+sha256  babc1ca72db188083a1c3812debe88c4473b943b1f7c662281cd57c580a8bdd9  CGI-4.72.tar.gz
+
+# computed by scancpan
+sha256  55a4d9005df91f82cd19aab29c3ad64c1a2e2d69a069f76570ee679bedd6b351  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.mk b/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca6968125c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/perl-cgi/perl-cgi.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# perl-cgi
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PERL_CGI_VERSION = 4.72
+PERL_CGI_SOURCE = CGI-$(PERL_CGI_VERSION).tar.gz
+PERL_CGI_SITE = $(BR2_CPAN_MIRROR)/authors/id/L/LE/LEEJO
+PERL_CGI_LICENSE = Artistic-2.0
+PERL_CGI_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+PERL_CGI_DISTNAME = CGI
+
+$(eval $(perl-package))
diff --git a/support/testing/tests/package/test_perl_cgi.py b/support/testing/tests/package/test_perl_cgi.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a6657ba78d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support/testing/tests/package/test_perl_cgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+from tests.package.test_perl import TestPerlBase
+
+
+class TestPerlCGI(TestPerlBase):
+    """
+    package:
+        CGI
+    direct dependencies:
+        HTML-Parser   XS
+        URI
+    indirect dependencies:
+        Clone   XS
+        Encode-Locale
+        HTML-Tagset
+        HTTP-Date
+        HTTP-Message
+        IO-HTML
+        LWP-MediaTypes
+        MIME-Base32
+        TimeDate
+    """
+
+    config = TestPerlBase.config + \
+        """
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PERL=y
+        BR2_PACKAGE_PERL_CGI=y
+        """
+
+    def test_run(self):
+        self.login()
+        self.module_test("Clone")
+        self.module_test("HTML::Parser")
+        self.module_test("CGI")