# User can bypass category minimum required tags validation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-bypass-category-minimum-required-tags-validation/85337
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 11, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-bypass-category-minimum-required-tags-validation/85337 "2018-04-11T19:04:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@BlackKnob](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BlackKnob)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-bypass-category-minimum-required-tags-validation/85337/1 "2018-04-11T19:04:18Z")
here’s how to go around it:
conditions: A category allows only tag from a specific tag group and requires applying at least 1 tag.
steps:
- create a new topic
- instead of selecting a tag from available options, type a new name and create a tag
- save the topic
result: the new topic has no tags
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-bypass-category-minimum-required-tags-validation/85337/2 "2018-04-14T17:55:42Z")
Fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0183656631e86ecb8eb6b443a15ea52a9d1acbd9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/0183656631e86ecb8eb6b443a15ea52a9d1acbd9)
Thanks for reporting this issue @BlackKnob. 👍
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-can-bypass-category-minimum-required-tags-validation/85337/3 "2018-04-15T12:30:21Z")
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