diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelper.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelper.java
index 8fc2a44f22d..a7a32428213 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelper.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/main/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelper.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import static datadog.trace.api.gateway.Events.EVENTS;
 
 import datadog.appsec.api.blocking.BlockingException;
+import datadog.trace.api.Config;
 import datadog.trace.api.gateway.BlockResponseFunction;
 import datadog.trace.api.gateway.CallbackProvider;
 import datadog.trace.api.gateway.Flow;
@@ -107,14 +108,23 @@ public static List<String> extractFilenames(Collection<?> parts) {
 
   /**
    * Returns a name→values map of form-field parts (those without a {@code filename=} parameter).
-   * File-upload parts are skipped to avoid reading potentially large content.
+   * File-upload parts are skipped to avoid reading potentially large content. Reads up to {@link
+   * Config#getAppSecMaxFileContentBytes()} bytes per field, up to {@link
+   * Config#getAppSecMaxFileContentCount()} fields total — same knobs and cap pattern as {@code
+   * MultipartHelper#extractContents()} uses for file content (PR #11706), reused here since there
+   * is no dedicated "max form fields" config.
    */
   public static Map<String, List<String>> extractFormFields(Collection<?> parts) {
     if (parts == null || parts.isEmpty()) {
       return Collections.emptyMap();
     }
+    int maxFields = Config.get().getAppSecMaxFileContentCount();
     Map<String, List<String>> result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+    int count = 0;
     for (Object obj : parts) {
+      if (count >= maxFields) {
+        break;
+      }
       try {
         Part part = (Part) obj;
         if (filenameFromPart(part) != null) {
@@ -129,6 +139,7 @@ public static Map<String, List<String>> extractFormFields(Collection<?> parts) {
           continue;
         }
         result.computeIfAbsent(name, k -> new ArrayList<>()).add(value);
+        count++;
       } catch (Exception e) {
         log.debug("extractFormFields: skipping malformed part", e);
       }
@@ -259,12 +270,20 @@ public static BlockingException fireFilenamesEvent(Collection<?> parts, RequestC
 
   private static String readPartContent(Part part) {
     Charset charset = charsetFromContentType(part.getContentType());
+    // Bound the buffered form-field text by the file-content byte cap. There is no dedicated
+    // "max form-field bytes" config, so we intentionally reuse getAppSecMaxFileContentBytes():
+    // this is the only framework that must manually buffer form-field text (Servlet 3.0 has no
+    // container-side bound), and without a cap a single huge text field could exhaust the heap.
+    int maxBytes = Config.get().getAppSecMaxFileContentBytes();
     try (InputStream is = part.getInputStream()) {
       ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
       byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
+      int total = 0;
       int read;
-      while ((read = is.read(buf)) != -1) {
+      while (total < maxBytes
+          && (read = is.read(buf, 0, Math.min(buf.length, maxBytes - total))) != -1) {
         baos.write(buf, 0, read);
+        total += read;
       }
       return new String(baos.toByteArray(), charset);
     } catch (IOException e) {
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/test/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelperTest.java b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/test/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelperTest.java
index 03c1ae51827..ef7bbc516a3 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/test/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelperTest.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/jetty/jetty-appsec/jetty-appsec-8.1.3/src/test/java/datadog/trace/instrumentation/jetty8/PartHelperTest.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package datadog.trace.instrumentation.jetty8;
 
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
+import static java.util.Arrays.fill;
 import static java.util.Collections.emptyList;
 import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
+import datadog.trace.api.Config;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
@@ -236,6 +238,32 @@ void extractFormFieldsDecodesFieldUsingContentTypeCharset() throws IOException {
     assertEquals(singletonList("café"), result.get("drink"));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void extractFormFieldsTruncatesFieldExceedingMaxContentBytes() throws IOException {
+    int maxBytes = Config.get().getAppSecMaxFileContentBytes();
+    // ASCII value larger than the cap so byte length == char length and truncation is exact.
+    char[] chars = new char[maxBytes * 2 + 123];
+    fill(chars, 'a');
+    String oversized = new String(chars);
+    List<Part> parts = singletonList(field("big", oversized));
+    Map<String, List<String>> result = PartHelper.extractFormFields(parts);
+    List<String> values = result.get("big");
+    assertEquals(1, values.size());
+    assertEquals(maxBytes, values.get(0).length());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void extractFormFieldsCapsAtMaxFileContentCount() throws IOException {
+    int maxFields = Config.get().getAppSecMaxFileContentCount();
+    int count = maxFields + 1;
+    Part[] parts = new Part[count];
+    for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+      parts[i] = field("field" + i, "value" + i);
+    }
+    Map<String, List<String>> result = PartHelper.extractFormFields(asList(parts));
+    assertEquals(maxFields, result.size());
+  }
+
   // ── getAllParts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
   @Test