From 728e82276c4c7deb07819decf99925787e6122a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rishabh Negi <rishabhnegi175@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:05:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] fix(api): add anchors to username validation regex

---
 packages/api/src/EmbeddedChatApi.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/api/src/EmbeddedChatApi.ts b/packages/api/src/EmbeddedChatApi.ts
index 72e25a046..9db4a6dfe 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/EmbeddedChatApi.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/EmbeddedChatApi.ts
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ export default class EmbeddedChatApi {
   async updateUserUsername(userid: string, username: string) {
     const newUserName = username.replace(/\s/g, ".").toLowerCase();
 
-    const usernameRegExp = /[0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+/;
+    const usernameRegExp = /^[0-9a-zA-Z-_.]+$/;
 
     if (usernameRegExp.test(newUserName)) {
       try {