diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfiguration.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfiguration.cs
index 709fb3ce9f..4000af6b82 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfiguration.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfiguration.cs
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ public class SliderConfiguration
     [ConfigurationField("initVal2", "Initial value 2", "number", Description = "Used when range is enabled")]
     public decimal InitialValue2 { get; set; }
 
-    [ConfigurationField("minVal", "Minimum value", "number")]
+    [ConfigurationField("minVal", "Minimum value", "number", Description = "Must be smaller than the Maximum value")]
     public decimal MinimumValue { get; set; }
 
-    [ConfigurationField("maxVal", "Maximum value", "number")]
+    [ConfigurationField("maxVal", "Maximum value", "number", Description = "Must be larger than the Minimum value")]
     public decimal MaximumValue { get; set; }
 
-    [ConfigurationField("step", "Step increments", "number")]
+    [ConfigurationField("step", "Step increments", "number", Description = "Must be a positive value")]
     public decimal StepIncrements { get; set; }
 }
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfigurationEditor.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfigurationEditor.cs
index 915e92d709..fbf45a9c41 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfigurationEditor.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/PropertyEditors/SliderConfigurationEditor.cs
@@ -25,4 +25,19 @@ public class SliderConfigurationEditor : ConfigurationEditor<SliderConfiguration
         ioHelper, editorConfigurationParser)
     {
     }
+
+    public override Dictionary<string, object> ToConfigurationEditor(SliderConfiguration? configuration)
+    {
+        // negative step increments can be configured in the back-office. they will cause the slider to
+        // crash the entire back-office. as we can't configure min and max values for the number prevalue
+        // editor, we have to this instead to limit the damage.
+        // logically, the step increments should be inverted instead of hardcoding them to 1, but the
+        // latter might point people in the direction of their misconfiguration.
+        if (configuration?.StepIncrements <= 0)
+        {
+            configuration.StepIncrements = 1;
+        }
+
+        return base.ToConfigurationEditor(configuration);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/GridPropertyIndexValueFactory.cs b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/GridPropertyIndexValueFactory.cs
index cc3c912f4a..c190a7b6a8 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/GridPropertyIndexValueFactory.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/GridPropertyIndexValueFactory.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Copyright (c) Umbraco.
+// Copyright (c) Umbraco.
 // See LICENSE for more details.
 
 using System.Text;
@@ -92,6 +92,6 @@ namespace Umbraco.Cms.Core.PropertyEditors
 
         [Obsolete("Use the overload that specifies availableCultures, scheduled for removal in v14")]
         public IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, IEnumerable<object?>>> GetIndexValues(IProperty property, string? culture, string? segment, bool published)
-            => GetIndexValues(property, culture, segment, published);
+            => GetIndexValues(property, culture, segment, published, Enumerable.Empty<string>());
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/RichTextPropertyEditor.cs b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/RichTextPropertyEditor.cs
index 8f59681afc..053e98d9cb 100644
--- a/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/RichTextPropertyEditor.cs
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Infrastructure/PropertyEditors/RichTextPropertyEditor.cs
@@ -328,6 +328,6 @@ public class RichTextPropertyEditor : DataEditor
 
         [Obsolete("Use the overload with the 'availableCultures' parameter instead, scheduled for removal in v14")]
         public IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, IEnumerable<object?>>> GetIndexValues(IProperty property, string? culture, string? segment, bool published)
-            => GetIndexValues(property, culture, segment, published);
+            => GetIndexValues(property, culture, segment, published, Enumerable.Empty<string>());
     }
 }