diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index e18d3c923a2..2825f91b2d6 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ New Features
 * LUCENE-5680: Add ability to atomically update a set of DocValues
   fields. (Shai Erera)
 
+* LUCENE-5717: Add support for multiterm queries nested inside
+  filtered and constant-score queries to postings highlighter.
+  (Luca Cavanna via Robert Muir)
+
 Changes in Backwards Compatibility Policy
 
 * LUCENE-5634: Add reuse argument to IndexableField.tokenStream. This
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/MultiTermHighlighting.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/MultiTermHighlighting.java
index c5e14f572ce..a06102578b1 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/MultiTermHighlighting.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/MultiTermHighlighting.java
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.AutomatonQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.ConstantScoreQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.DisjunctionMaxQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.FilteredQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.FuzzyQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.PrefixQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
@@ -68,6 +70,10 @@ class MultiTermHighlighting {
           list.addAll(Arrays.asList(extractAutomata(clause.getQuery(), field)));
         }
       }
+    } else if (query instanceof FilteredQuery) {
+      list.addAll(Arrays.asList(extractAutomata(((FilteredQuery) query).getQuery(), field)));
+    } else if (query instanceof ConstantScoreQuery) {
+      list.addAll(Arrays.asList(extractAutomata(((ConstantScoreQuery) query).getQuery(), field)));
     } else if (query instanceof DisjunctionMaxQuery) {
       for (Query sub : ((DisjunctionMaxQuery) query).getDisjuncts()) {
         list.addAll(Arrays.asList(extractAutomata(sub, field)));
diff --git a/lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestMultiTermHighlighting.java b/lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestMultiTermHighlighting.java
index 3aa7dd47158..11c9457595b 100644
--- a/lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestMultiTermHighlighting.java
+++ b/lucene/highlighter/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/postingshighlight/TestMultiTermHighlighting.java
@@ -29,9 +29,12 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriterConfig;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.RandomIndexWriter;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo.IndexOptions;
+import org.apache.lucene.queries.TermFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.ConstantScoreQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.DisjunctionMaxQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.FilteredQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.FuzzyQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
@@ -437,6 +440,90 @@ public class TestMultiTermHighlighting extends LuceneTestCase {
     ir.close();
     dir.close();
   }
+
+  public void testWildcardInFiltered() throws Exception {
+    Directory dir = newDirectory();
+    // use simpleanalyzer for more natural tokenization (else "test." is a token)
+    final Analyzer analyzer = new MockAnalyzer(random(), MockTokenizer.SIMPLE, true);
+    IndexWriterConfig iwc = newIndexWriterConfig(TEST_VERSION_CURRENT, analyzer);
+    iwc.setMergePolicy(newLogMergePolicy());
+    RandomIndexWriter iw = new RandomIndexWriter(random(), dir, iwc);
+
+    FieldType offsetsType = new FieldType(TextField.TYPE_STORED);
+    offsetsType.setIndexOptions(IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS);
+    Field body = new Field("body", "", offsetsType);
+    Document doc = new Document();
+    doc.add(body);
+
+    body.setStringValue("This is a test.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+    body.setStringValue("Test a one sentence document.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+
+    IndexReader ir = iw.getReader();
+    iw.shutdown();
+
+    IndexSearcher searcher = newSearcher(ir);
+    PostingsHighlighter highlighter = new PostingsHighlighter() {
+      @Override
+      protected Analyzer getIndexAnalyzer(String field) {
+        return analyzer;
+      }
+    };
+    FilteredQuery query = new FilteredQuery(
+        new WildcardQuery(new Term("body", "te*")),
+        new TermFilter(new Term("body", "test")));
+    TopDocs topDocs = searcher.search(query, null, 10, Sort.INDEXORDER);
+    assertEquals(2, topDocs.totalHits);
+    String snippets[] = highlighter.highlight("body", query, searcher, topDocs);
+    assertEquals(2, snippets.length);
+    assertEquals("This is a <b>test</b>.", snippets[0]);
+    assertEquals("<b>Test</b> a one sentence document.", snippets[1]);
+
+    ir.close();
+    dir.close();
+  }
+
+  public void testWildcardInConstantScore() throws Exception {
+    Directory dir = newDirectory();
+    // use simpleanalyzer for more natural tokenization (else "test." is a token)
+    final Analyzer analyzer = new MockAnalyzer(random(), MockTokenizer.SIMPLE, true);
+    IndexWriterConfig iwc = newIndexWriterConfig(TEST_VERSION_CURRENT, analyzer);
+    iwc.setMergePolicy(newLogMergePolicy());
+    RandomIndexWriter iw = new RandomIndexWriter(random(), dir, iwc);
+
+    FieldType offsetsType = new FieldType(TextField.TYPE_STORED);
+    offsetsType.setIndexOptions(IndexOptions.DOCS_AND_FREQS_AND_POSITIONS_AND_OFFSETS);
+    Field body = new Field("body", "", offsetsType);
+    Document doc = new Document();
+    doc.add(body);
+
+    body.setStringValue("This is a test.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+    body.setStringValue("Test a one sentence document.");
+    iw.addDocument(doc);
+
+    IndexReader ir = iw.getReader();
+    iw.shutdown();
+
+    IndexSearcher searcher = newSearcher(ir);
+    PostingsHighlighter highlighter = new PostingsHighlighter() {
+      @Override
+      protected Analyzer getIndexAnalyzer(String field) {
+        return analyzer;
+      }
+    };
+    ConstantScoreQuery query = new ConstantScoreQuery(new WildcardQuery(new Term("body", "te*")));
+    TopDocs topDocs = searcher.search(query, null, 10, Sort.INDEXORDER);
+    assertEquals(2, topDocs.totalHits);
+    String snippets[] = highlighter.highlight("body", query, searcher, topDocs);
+    assertEquals(2, snippets.length);
+    assertEquals("This is a <b>test</b>.", snippets[0]);
+    assertEquals("<b>Test</b> a one sentence document.", snippets[1]);
+
+    ir.close();
+    dir.close();
+  }
   
   public void testWildcardInDisjunctionMax() throws Exception {
     Directory dir = newDirectory();