diff --git a/gateway/mw_url_rewrite.go b/gateway/mw_url_rewrite.go
index b34b10be690..1966c0bcc9e 100644
--- a/gateway/mw_url_rewrite.go
+++ b/gateway/mw_url_rewrite.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package gateway
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
@@ -704,6 +705,7 @@ func checkPayload(r *http.Request, options apidef.StringRegexMap, triggernum int
 		log.WithError(err).Error("error reading request body")
 		return false
 	}
+	r.Body = io.NopCloser(bytes.NewBuffer(bodyBytes))
 
 	// Perform regex matching on the request body
 	matched, matches := options.FindAllStringSubmatch(string(bodyBytes), -1)
diff --git a/gateway/mw_validate_json.go b/gateway/mw_validate_json.go
index efcd50d034d..48773e79634 100644
--- a/gateway/mw_validate_json.go
+++ b/gateway/mw_validate_json.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package gateway
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@ func (k *ValidateJSON) ProcessRequest(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, _
 	if err != nil {
 		return err, http.StatusBadRequest
 	}
+	r.Body = io.NopCloser(bytes.NewBuffer(bodyBytes))
 	defer r.Body.Close()
 	inputLoader := gojsonschema.NewBytesLoader(bodyBytes)