diff --git a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Browser/MqttBrowseSession.cs b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Browser/MqttBrowseSession.cs
index 2e37d579..1c563e83 100644
--- a/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Browser/MqttBrowseSession.cs
+++ b/src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Browser/MqttBrowseSession.cs
@@ -720,6 +720,19 @@ internal sealed class MqttBrowseSession : IRebirthCapableBrowseSession
         return true;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>
+    ///     Whether an operator-supplied scope segment may be used to <b>address</b> an NCMD. Everything
+    ///     <see cref="IsUsableLabel"/> requires, plus no MQTT wildcard: a group/edge-node id becomes a
+    ///     topic segment of the published command, and MQTT-3.3.2-2 forbids a wildcard in a PUBLISH
+    ///     topic. Kept separate from <see cref="IsUsableLabel"/> on purpose — that one also judges
+    ///     Sparkplug <i>metric</i> names, which are arbitrary publisher-chosen UTF-8 and are never part
+    ///     of a topic, so tightening it there would drop legitimate metrics from the tree.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="segment">The candidate scope segment.</param>
+    /// <returns><see langword="true"/> when an NCMD may be addressed with it.</returns>
+    private static bool IsUsableRebirthSegment(string segment) =>
+        IsUsableLabel(segment) && segment.IndexOf('+') < 0 && segment.IndexOf('#') < 0;
+
     /// <summary>Test seam over <see cref="Observe"/> that takes the payload as text.</summary>
     /// <param name="topic">The observed topic.</param>
     /// <param name="payload">The message body as text, or <see langword="null"/> for an empty payload.</param>
@@ -895,7 +908,14 @@ internal sealed class MqttBrowseSession : IRebirthCapableBrowseSession
         }
 
         // 3. A bare {group}/{edgeNode} the window has never seen — the prime rebirth target.
-        if (segments.Length == 2 && IsUsableLabel(segments[0]) && IsUsableLabel(segments[1]))
+        //    ⚠ This is the ONE path that takes an id the session never parsed off the wire, so it is the
+        //    one that must check for a wildcard. IsUsableLabel deliberately permits '+'/'#' (a Sparkplug
+        //    METRIC name is arbitrary UTF-8 and could legitimately contain either), so it is not enough
+        //    here: `Plant1/#` would have assembled `spBv1.0/Plant1/NCMD/#`, a PUBLISH the MQTT spec
+        //    forbids, which a conformant broker answers by closing the browse connection — while `+`
+        //    would fan one operator click across every matching edge node. Cases 1 and 2 above cannot
+        //    reach this shape: their ids come off SparkplugTopic.TryParse, which rejects both characters.
+        if (segments.Length == 2 && IsUsableRebirthSegment(segments[0]) && IsUsableRebirthSegment(segments[1]))
         {
             return [(segments[0], segments[1])];
         }
diff --git a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttBrowseSessionTests.cs b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttBrowseSessionTests.cs
index 5427e985..b84fdb7d 100644
--- a/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttBrowseSessionTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Mqtt.Tests/MqttBrowseSessionTests.cs
@@ -854,6 +854,27 @@ public sealed class MqttBrowseSessionTests
         s.PublishCountForTest.ShouldBe(0);
     }
 
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("Plant1/#")]
+    [InlineData("Plant1/+")]
+    [InlineData("+/EdgeA")]
+    [InlineData("#/EdgeA")]
+    public async Task RequestRebirthAsync_WildcardScope_PublishesNothing(string scope)
+    {
+        // SparkplugRebirthScope (the AdminUI's typed input) rejects a wildcard and its own remarks say
+        // it is "advisory, not the gate" because ResolveRebirthTargets "refuses an unusable one BEFORE
+        // any message leaves". That claim has to be true here: an unobserved `{group}/{edgeNode}` scope
+        // is honoured on purpose (a node that has not birthed is the prime rebirth target), and the
+        // label check behind it looked only at length and control characters. A wildcard segment would
+        // therefore have published `spBv1.0/Plant1/NCMD/#` — a PUBLISH the MQTT spec forbids, which a
+        // conformant broker answers by closing the browse connection.
+        await using var s = new MqttBrowseSession(MqttMode.SparkplugB);
+
+        await Should.ThrowAsync<ArgumentException>(
+            async () => await s.RequestRebirthAsync(scope, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+        s.PublishCountForTest.ShouldBe(0);
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public async Task RequestRebirthAsync_InPlainMode_IsRefused()
     {