diff --git a/pygeoapi/api/stac.py b/pygeoapi/api/stac.py
index 5b5611d3a8..b9c6139c5c 100644
--- a/pygeoapi/api/stac.py
+++ b/pygeoapi/api/stac.py
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ def search(api: API, request: Union[APIRequest, Any]) -> Tuple[dict, int, str]:
     if request.data:
         LOGGER.debug('Intercepting STAC POST request into query args')
         request_data = json.loads(request.data)
-        request_params = deepcopy(dict(request.params))
+        request_params = deepcopy(dict(request.params.items()))
 
         for qp in ['bbox', 'datetime', 'limit', 'offset']:
             if qp in request_data:
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ def search(api: API, request: Union[APIRequest, Any]) -> Tuple[dict, int, str]:
 
     next_link = False
     prev_link = False
-    request_params = deepcopy(dict(request._args))
+    request_params = deepcopy(dict(request.params.items()))
     limit = itemtypes_api.evaluate_limit(
         request_params.get('limit'),
         api.config['server'].get('limits', {}), {})
diff --git a/tests/other/test_django.py b/tests/other/test_django.py
index 85c349e5d8..2f6b7f0fda 100644
--- a/tests/other/test_django.py
+++ b/tests/other/test_django.py
@@ -31,14 +31,21 @@
 
 
 from http import HTTPStatus
+import json
 import os
 import sys
 from unittest import mock
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from urllib.parse import parse_qs, urlsplit
 
 import django
 from django.test import Client
 import pytest
 
+from pygeoapi.api import API, APIRequest
+from pygeoapi.api.stac import search
+from pygeoapi.util import yaml_load
+
 from ..util import get_test_file_path
 
 
@@ -71,3 +78,37 @@ def test_django_edr_without_instance_id(django_):
     response_json = response.json()
     assert response_json["type"] == "Coverage"
     assert response_json["domain"]["domainType"] == "PointSeries"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def stac_api(openapi):
+    with open(get_test_file_path('pygeoapi-test-stac-api-config.yml')) as fh:
+        return API(yaml_load(fh), openapi)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('post_data,limit', [(None, 3), ({'limit': 2}, 2)])
+def test_search_django_query_params(stac_api, post_data, limit, monkeypatch):
+    """Django query values stay scalar in POST overrides and paging links."""
+    django_http = pytest.importorskip('django.http')
+    monkeypatch.setattr(django_http.request, 'settings', SimpleNamespace(
+        DATA_UPLOAD_MAX_NUMBER_FIELDS=1000))
+    params = django_http.QueryDict(
+        'limit=1&limit=3&offset=2&bbox=-180,-90,180,90', encoding='utf-8')
+    request = SimpleNamespace(
+        GET=params, headers={}, path_info='/stac-api/search',
+        body=json.dumps(post_data).encode() if post_data else b'')
+    req = APIRequest.from_django(request, stac_api.locales)
+
+    _, code, response = search(stac_api, req)
+    assert code == 200
+    response = json.loads(response)
+    assert response['numberMatched'] == 10
+    assert response['numberReturned'] == limit
+    links = {link['rel']: link['href'] for link in response['links']}
+    for rel, offset in [('prev', None), ('next', [str(2 + limit)])]:
+        query = parse_qs(urlsplit(links[rel]).query)
+        assert query['limit'] == [str(limit)]
+        assert query['bbox'] == ['-180,-90,180,90']
+        assert query.get('offset') == offset
+    assert params.getlist('limit') == ['1', '3']
+    assert params['offset'] == '2'