diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index eea9a1011..d2a4547f5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/), and this project adheres
 to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
-## Unreleased
+## [9.2.3] - 2024-10-09
 
 - Adds validation to firstFactors and requiredSecondaryFactors names while creating tenants/apps/etc. to not allow 
   special chars.
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/supertokens/webserver/api/multitenancy/BaseCreateOrUpdate.java b/src/main/java/io/supertokens/webserver/api/multitenancy/BaseCreateOrUpdate.java
index 52d96136d..1ae57140d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/supertokens/webserver/api/multitenancy/BaseCreateOrUpdate.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/supertokens/webserver/api/multitenancy/BaseCreateOrUpdate.java
@@ -941,16 +941,16 @@ private static TenantConfig applyTenantUpdates_5_0(TenantConfig tenantConfig, Js
 
     private static void validateFactorsName(TenantConfig tenantConfig) throws ServletException{
         if(!areFactorNamesValid(tenantConfig.firstFactors)){
-            throw new ServletException(new BadRequestException("firstFactors should contain only 0-9,a-z,A-Z,_,- characters"));
+            throw new ServletException(new BadRequestException("firstFactors should contain only 0-9,a-z,A-Z,_,.,- characters"));
         }
         if(!areFactorNamesValid(tenantConfig.requiredSecondaryFactors)){
-            throw new ServletException(new BadRequestException("requiredSecondaryFactors should contain only 0-9,a-z,A-Z,_,- characters"));
+            throw new ServletException(new BadRequestException("requiredSecondaryFactors should contain only 0-9,a-z,A-Z,_,.,- characters"));
         }
     }
 
     private static boolean areFactorNamesValid(String[] factors) {
         if(factors != null && factors.length > 0) {
-            String allowedPattern = "^[0-9a-zA-Z_-]+$";
+            String allowedPattern = "^[0-9a-zA-Z_(\\.)-]+$";
             for(String factor: factors){
                 if(factor != null && !factor.matches(allowedPattern)){
                     return false;