diff --git a/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/Help/PublicLinkHelp.php b/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/Help/PublicLinkHelp.php
index 3881c11e3..7572ec6ea 100644
--- a/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/Help/PublicLinkHelp.php
+++ b/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/Help/PublicLinkHelp.php
@@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ public static function create(): array
     {
         return [
             self::getItem('itemId', __('Account Id'), true),
-            self::getItem('notify', __('Notify when the link is used')),
-            self::getItem('dateExpire', __('Expiry date')),
-            self::getItem('maxCountViews', __('Maximum views'))
+            self::getItem('notify', __('Notify when the link is used'))
+            // No expiry or view limit: both come from the configuration, which is where the
+            // maximum lives, and a caller who could set them could outlive it.
         ];
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLink/CreateController.php b/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLink/CreateController.php
index 8868fdbdf..8c1f236cf 100644
--- a/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLink/CreateController.php
+++ b/src/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLink/CreateController.php
@@ -24,12 +24,25 @@ public function createAction(): ApiResponse
             // call fail on the insert.
             'typeId'        => PublicLinkType::Account->value,
             'notify'        => (bool) $this->apiService->getParamInt('notify'),
-            'dateExpire'    => $this->apiService->getParamInt('dateExpire'),
-            'maxCountViews' => $this->apiService->getParamInt('maxCountViews'),
         ]);
 
         $id = $this->publicLinkService->create($linkData);
-        $linkData = $linkData->mutate(['id' => $id]);
+
+        // When the link expires and how often it may be opened are the administrator's
+        // configuration — `getPublinksMaxTime()` is a maximum, and neither web path lets anyone
+        // choose either. The service sets both, so the `dateExpire` and `maxCountViews` this
+        // endpoint used to accept were discarded on the way to the database. What made that
+        // costly rather than merely useless is that the response echoed the request back, so a
+        // caller was told a link would expire when they asked, and it did not.
+        $stored = $this->publicLinkService->getById($id);
+
+        $linkData = $linkData->mutate(
+            [
+                'id' => $id,
+                'dateExpire' => $stored->getDateExpire(),
+                'maxCountViews' => $stored->getMaxCountViews(),
+            ]
+        );
 
         $this->eventDispatcher->notify(new Event(
             'create.publicLink',
diff --git a/tests/Integration/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLinkControllerTest.php b/tests/Integration/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLinkControllerTest.php
index 1b9d46d97..7e97964d5 100644
--- a/tests/Integration/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLinkControllerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Integration/Infrastructure/Adapter/In/Api/Controllers/PublicLinkControllerTest.php
@@ -26,11 +26,14 @@
 
 namespace SP\Tests\Integration\Infrastructure\Adapter\In\Api\Controllers;
 
+use PDO;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\Group;
 use SP\Domain\Core\Acl\AclActionsInterface;
 use SP\Tests\Integration\Infrastructure\Adapter\In\Api\ApiTestCase;
 use stdClass;
 
+use function SP\Tests\getDbHandler;
+
 /**
  * Covers the public-link endpoints over the REST API. None of them had tests.
  *
@@ -59,6 +62,67 @@ public function testCreateAction(): void
         $this->assertGreaterThan(0, $r->body->itemId);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A caller cannot choose when a link expires, or how many times it may be opened.
+     *
+     * `getPublinksMaxTime()` and `getPublinksMaxViews()` are the administrator's configuration —
+     * a maximum — and neither web path offers a way to set either. The endpoint nonetheless
+     * accepted `dateExpire` and `maxCountViews`, advertised them in its own help, and discarded
+     * them on the way to the database.
+     *
+     * What made that costly rather than merely useless is the response: it echoed the request
+     * back, so a caller asking for a link that expired at a particular time was told it would,
+     * while the stored link expired at whatever the configuration said. For a feature that hands
+     * out credentials, being wrong about the expiry in the safe direction is luck, not design.
+     */
+    public function testTheExpiryAndViewLimitComeFromTheConfigurationNotTheCaller(): void
+    {
+        $wanted = time() + 12345;
+
+        $r = $this->callApi(AclActionsInterface::PUBLICLINK_CREATE, [
+            'itemId' => $this->accountId(),
+            'dateExpire' => $wanted,
+            'maxCountViews' => 7,
+        ]);
+
+        $this->assertSame(201, $r->status);
+
+        [$storedExpiry, $storedViews] = $this->storedLimitsFor($r->body->itemId);
+
+        $this->assertNotSame($wanted, $storedExpiry, 'the caller must not be able to set the expiry');
+        $this->assertNotSame(7, $storedViews, 'nor the view limit');
+
+        // The half that actually misled anyone: the answer has to describe the link that exists.
+        $this->assertSame(
+            $storedExpiry,
+            $r->body->data->dateExpire,
+            'the response reported an expiry the link does not have'
+        );
+        $this->assertSame(
+            $storedViews,
+            $r->body->data->maxCountViews,
+            'the response reported a view limit the link does not have'
+        );
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The expiry and the view limit as the row holds them.
+     *
+     * @return array{int, int}
+     */
+    private function storedLimitsFor(int $id): array
+    {
+        $statement = getDbHandler()->getConnection()
+                                   ->prepare('SELECT `dateExpire`, `maxCountViews` FROM `PublicLink` WHERE `id` = :id');
+        $statement->execute(['id' => $id]);
+
+        $row = $statement->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
+
+        $this->assertNotFalse($row, sprintf('No PublicLink row with id %d', $id));
+
+        return [(int)$row['dateExpire'], (int)$row['maxCountViews']];
+    }
+
     /**
      * A link with no account behind it would hand out nothing, so the account is required.
      */