diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/ColumnValidator.java b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/ColumnValidator.java
index 18a563b47..18d833a95 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/ColumnValidator.java
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/ColumnValidator.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.service.RoutingDataSource;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -91,6 +92,9 @@ public class ColumnValidator {
 
     public void validateSqlInjection(String schema, String... conditions) {
         for (String condition : conditions) {
+            if (StringUtils.isBlank(condition)) {
+                continue;
+            }
             SQLInjectionValidator.validateSQLInput(condition);
             List<String> operator = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("=", ">", "<", "> =", "< =", "! =", "!=", ">=", "<="));
             condition = condition.trim().replace("( ", "(").replace(" )", ")").toLowerCase();
diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/SQLInjectionValidator.java b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/SQLInjectionValidator.java
index 60ff8e367..ce0c85d78 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/SQLInjectionValidator.java
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/security/utils/SQLInjectionValidator.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ package org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.security.utils;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 public class SQLInjectionValidator {
 
@@ -33,6 +34,9 @@ public class SQLInjectionValidator {
     private static final String SQL_PATTERN = "[a-zA-Z_=,\\-'!><.?\"`% ()0-9*\n\r]*";
 
     public static final void validateSQLInput(final String sqlSearch) {
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(sqlSearch)) {
+            return;
+        }
         String lowerCaseSQL = sqlSearch.toLowerCase();
         for (String ddl : DDL_COMMANDS) {
             if (lowerCaseSQL.contains(ddl)) {
@@ -118,6 +122,9 @@ public class SQLInjectionValidator {
     }
 
     public static final void validateAdhocQuery(final String sqlSearch) {
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(sqlSearch)) {
+            return;
+        }
         String lowerCaseSQL = sqlSearch.toLowerCase().trim();
         for (String ddl : DDL_COMMANDS) {
             if (lowerCaseSQL.startsWith(ddl)) {