diff --git a/eslint.config.js b/eslint.config.js
index 0aa7ac6b79f191..5db3208a2e2a4c 100644
--- a/eslint.config.js
+++ b/eslint.config.js
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ export default tseslint.config(
       'no-debugger': ['error'],
       'no-empty': ['warn', { allowEmptyCatch: true }],
       'no-process-exit': 'off',
-      'no-useless-escape': 'off',
       'prefer-const': [
         'warn',
         {
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/__tests__/plugins/importGlob/parse.spec.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/__tests__/plugins/importGlob/parse.spec.ts
index de52b8eb1ae470..bb1304076661bc 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/__tests__/plugins/importGlob/parse.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/__tests__/plugins/importGlob/parse.spec.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ describe('parse positives', async () => {
   it('basic', async () => {
     expect(
       await run(`
-    import.meta.glob(\'./modules/*.ts\')
+    import.meta.glob('./modules/*.ts')
     `),
     ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
       [
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ describe('parse positives', async () => {
   it('array', async () => {
     expect(
       await run(`
-    import.meta.glob([\'./modules/*.ts\', './dir/*.{js,ts}\'])
+    import.meta.glob(['./modules/*.ts', './dir/*.{js,ts}'])
     `),
     ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
       [
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ describe('parse positives', async () => {
     expect(
       await run(`
     import.meta.glob([
-      \'./modules/*.ts\',
+      './modules/*.ts',
       "!./dir/*.{js,ts}"
     ], {
       eager: true,
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
index 4cbc1820295ca2..e653d43a7224ac 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/css.ts
@@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ export const cssDataUriRE =
 export const importCssRE = /@import ('[^']+\.css'|"[^"]+\.css"|[^'")]+\.css)/
 // Assuming a function name won't be longer than 256 chars
 // eslint-disable-next-line regexp/no-unused-capturing-group -- doesn't detect asyncReplace usage
-const cssImageSetRE = /(?<=image-set\()((?:[\w\-]{1,256}\([^)]*\)|[^)])*)(?=\))/
+const cssImageSetRE = /(?<=image-set\()((?:[\w-]{1,256}\([^)]*\)|[^)])*)(?=\))/
 
 const UrlRewritePostcssPlugin: PostCSS.PluginCreator<{
   replacer: CssUrlReplacer
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
index bcc5cd75acabff..daf706d1a3e336 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/utils.ts
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ interface ImageCandidate {
   descriptor: string
 }
 const escapedSpaceCharacters = /(?: |\\t|\\n|\\f|\\r)+/g
-const imageSetUrlRE = /^(?:[\w\-]+\(.*?\)|'.*?'|".*?"|\S*)/
+const imageSetUrlRE = /^(?:[\w-]+\(.*?\)|'.*?'|".*?"|\S*)/
 function joinSrcset(ret: ImageCandidate[]) {
   return ret
     .map(({ url, descriptor }) => url + (descriptor ? ` ${descriptor}` : ''))
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ export function processSrcSetSync(
 }
 
 const cleanSrcSetRE =
-  /(?:url|image|gradient|cross-fade)\([^)]*\)|"([^"]|(?<=\\)")*"|'([^']|(?<=\\)')*'|data:\w+\/[\w.+\-]+;base64,[\w+/=]+|\?\S+,/g
+  /(?:url|image|gradient|cross-fade)\([^)]*\)|"([^"]|(?<=\\)")*"|'([^']|(?<=\\)')*'|data:\w+\/[\w.+-]+;base64,[\w+/=]+|\?\S+,/g
 function splitSrcSet(srcs: string) {
   const parts: string[] = []
   /**