diff --git a/.changes/validate-region-urls b/.changes/validate-region-urls
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e5288bc6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/validate-region-urls
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+patch type="fixed" "Region URLs returned by region discovery are now validated before the SDK fails over to them. Only encrypted (`wss`/`https`) LiveKit Cloud URLs are accepted, and the check is applied to both sources of a region list: the `/settings/regions` response and the regions the server reports over signalling. `isCloudUrl` also now matches the Cloud domains on the host suffix rather than with `contains`, so a host such as `project.livekit.cloud.example.com` is no longer treated as LiveKit Cloud"
diff --git a/lib/src/support/region_url_provider.dart b/lib/src/support/region_url_provider.dart
index 5e44d6c33..cf5b28178 100644
--- a/lib/src/support/region_url_provider.dart
+++ b/lib/src/support/region_url_provider.dart
@@ -85,11 +85,10 @@ class RegionUrlProvider {
             ),
           )
           .toList();
-      final regionSettings = lk_models.RegionSettings(
-        regions: regions,
-      );
       lastUpdateAt = DateTime.timestamp().millisecondsSinceEpoch;
-      return regionSettings;
+      return lk_models.RegionSettings(
+        regions: _trustedRegions(regions),
+      );
     } else {
       throw ConnectException(
         'Could not fetch region settings: ${regionSettingsResponse.body}, status: ${regionSettingsResponse.statusCode}',
@@ -102,10 +101,25 @@ class RegionUrlProvider {
   }
 
   void setServerReportedRegions(lk_models.RegionSettings regions) {
-    regionSettings = regions;
+    regionSettings = lk_models.RegionSettings(
+      regions: _trustedRegions(regions.regions),
+    );
     lastUpdateAt = DateTime.timestamp().millisecondsSinceEpoch;
   }
 
+  /// Keeps only the regions this SDK may fail over to, reporting what it dropped.
+  ///
+  /// Both sources of a region list are network input, and every URL kept here is later connected
+  /// to with the participant token. See [isTrustedRegionUrl].
+  List<lk_models.RegionInfo> _trustedRegions(List<lk_models.RegionInfo> regions) {
+    final trusted = regions.where((region) => isTrustedRegionUrl(region.url)).toList();
+    final rejected = regions.length - trusted.length;
+    if (rejected > 0) {
+      logger.warning('ignoring $rejected of ${regions.length} regions: not an encrypted LiveKit Cloud URL');
+    }
+    return trusted;
+  }
+
   String getCloudConfigUrl(Uri serverUrl) {
     return '${serverUrl.scheme.replaceAll('ws', 'http')}://${serverUrl.host}/settings';
   }
@@ -125,8 +139,30 @@ extension RegionSettingsExtension on lk_models.RegionSettings {
   );
 }
 
+/// Whether [uri] names a LiveKit Cloud project.
+///
+/// Matched on the suffix, not with `contains`: a host only belongs to LiveKit Cloud when it ends
+/// in one of these domains. `project.livekit.cloud.example.com` contains `.livekit.cloud` but is
+/// someone else's host, and treating it as Cloud would send it the region request — with the
+/// participant token attached.
 bool isCloudUrl(Uri uri) {
-  return uri.host.contains('.livekit.cloud') || uri.host.contains('.livekit.run');
+  final host = uri.host.toLowerCase();
+  return host.endsWith('.livekit.cloud') || host.endsWith('.livekit.run');
+}
+
+/// Whether [url] is a region URL the SDK may fail over to.
+///
+/// A region list arrives over the network — from `/settings/regions` and from the regions the
+/// server reports over signalling — and the SDK authenticates to whatever it names, sending the
+/// participant token as a bearer header. Each entry is therefore checked on its own merits rather
+/// than inheriting trust from the server URL the application supplied, and `ws`/`http` entries are
+/// refused so a region list cannot move that exchange onto cleartext.
+bool isTrustedRegionUrl(String url) {
+  final uri = Uri.tryParse(url);
+  if (uri == null || uri.host.isEmpty) return false;
+  final scheme = uri.scheme.toLowerCase();
+  if (scheme != 'wss' && scheme != 'https') return false;
+  return isCloudUrl(uri);
 }
 
 /// Whether a failed connection attempt may be retried against a different LiveKit Cloud region.
diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index bd89e4b8a..bd1e56c22 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -468,10 +468,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: matcher
-      sha256: "31bd099b47c10cd1aeb55146a2d46ce0277630ecef3f7dae54ad7873f36696cd"
+      sha256: dc0b7dc7651697ea4ff3e69ef44b0407ea32c487a39fff6a4004fa585e901861
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "0.12.20"
+    version: "0.12.19"
   material_color_utilities:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
@@ -484,10 +484,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: "direct main"
     description:
       name: meta
-      sha256: "307249ce4ff29d58a18e97f6345f539382eb9c9c29ecda628900f31de0443dd9"
+      sha256: "1741988757a65eb6b36abe716829688cf01910bbf91c34354ff7ec1c3de2b349"
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "1.19.0"
+    version: "1.18.0"
   mime:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
@@ -777,10 +777,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: test_api
-      sha256: "2a122cbe059f8b610d3a5415f42e255b6c17b1f21eee1d960f31080237fb4f11"
+      sha256: "949a932224383300f01be9221c39180316445ecb8e7547f70a41a35bf421fb9e"
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "0.7.12"
+    version: "0.7.11"
   tint:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
@@ -809,10 +809,10 @@ packages:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: vector_math
-      sha256: f36f9f3be64c6198714492bb455c11056e33e2f85d9a0b676a48301e44fdcf47
+      sha256: d530bd74fea330e6e364cda7a85019c434070188383e1cd8d9777ee586914c5b
       url: "https://pub.dev"
     source: hosted
-    version: "2.4.2"
+    version: "2.2.0"
   vm_service:
     dependency: transitive
     description:
diff --git a/test/support/region_failover_test.dart b/test/support/region_failover_test.dart
index 04f8aac60..74515278e 100644
--- a/test/support/region_failover_test.dart
+++ b/test/support/region_failover_test.dart
@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
+import 'package:fixnum/fixnum.dart';
 import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
 
 import 'package:livekit_client/src/exceptions.dart';
+import 'package:livekit_client/src/proto/livekit_rtc.pb.dart' as lk_models;
 import 'package:livekit_client/src/support/region_url_provider.dart';
 import 'package:livekit_client/src/support/websocket.dart' show WebSocketException;
 
@@ -67,4 +69,94 @@ void main() {
       expect(canFailOverToAnotherRegion(StateError('boom')), isFalse);
     });
   });
+
+  group('isCloudUrl', () {
+    test('accepts LiveKit Cloud hosts', () {
+      for (final url in [
+        'wss://project.livekit.cloud',
+        'wss://project.otokyo1a.production.livekit.cloud',
+        'wss://project.livekit.run',
+        'wss://PROJECT.LIVEKIT.CLOUD',
+      ]) {
+        expect(isCloudUrl(Uri.parse(url)), isTrue, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('matches the suffix, not a substring anywhere in the host', () {
+      // `project.livekit.cloud.example.com` contains `.livekit.cloud` but belongs to someone
+      // else; treating it as Cloud would send it the region request with the token attached.
+      for (final url in [
+        'wss://project.livekit.cloud.example.com',
+        'wss://livekit.run.example.com',
+        'wss://not-livekit.cloud',
+        'wss://self-hosted.example.com',
+        'ws://localhost:7880',
+      ]) {
+        expect(isCloudUrl(Uri.parse(url)), isFalse, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  group('isTrustedRegionUrl', () {
+    test('accepts encrypted LiveKit Cloud urls', () {
+      for (final url in [
+        'wss://eu.livekit.cloud',
+        'https://eu.livekit.cloud',
+        'https://eu.livekit.cloud:443/rtc',
+        'wss://staging.livekit.run',
+      ]) {
+        expect(isTrustedRegionUrl(url), isTrue, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('rejects cleartext schemes even for a real cloud host', () {
+      for (final url in ['ws://eu.livekit.cloud', 'http://eu.livekit.cloud']) {
+        expect(isTrustedRegionUrl(url), isFalse, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('rejects foreign hosts and suffix near-misses', () {
+      for (final url in [
+        'https://other.example.com',
+        'wss://other.example.com/rtc',
+        'https://not-livekit.cloud',
+        'https://livekit.cloud.example.com',
+        // The one a `contains` match would wrongly accept: the dot-prefixed domain appears in
+        // the middle of someone else's host.
+        'https://project.livekit.cloud.example.com',
+      ]) {
+        expect(isTrustedRegionUrl(url), isFalse, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+
+    test('rejects malformed and hostless urls', () {
+      for (final url in ['', 'eu.livekit.cloud', 'file:///etc/passwd', '::::']) {
+        expect(isTrustedRegionUrl(url), isFalse, reason: url);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  group('region ingestion', () {
+    lk_models.RegionInfo region(String name, String url) =>
+        lk_models.RegionInfo(region: name, url: url, distance: Int64(1));
+
+    test('server reported regions drop entries the SDK must not fail over to', () async {
+      final provider = RegionUrlProvider(url: 'wss://project.livekit.cloud', token: 'token');
+
+      provider.setServerReportedRegions(
+        lk_models.RegionSettings(
+          regions: [
+            region('foreign', 'https://other.example.com'),
+            region('cleartext', 'ws://cleartext.livekit.cloud'),
+            region('near-miss', 'https://livekit.cloud.example.com'),
+            region('good', 'https://good.livekit.cloud'),
+          ],
+        ),
+      );
+
+      expect(provider.regionSettings!.regions.map((r) => r.url), ['https://good.livekit.cloud']);
+      expect(await provider.getNextBestRegionUrl(), 'https://good.livekit.cloud');
+      expect(await provider.getNextBestRegionUrl(), isNull);
+    });
+  });
 }