diff --git a/lib/yrewrite/forward.php b/lib/yrewrite/forward.php
index c601995..c0372ec 100644
--- a/lib/yrewrite/forward.php
+++ b/lib/yrewrite/forward.php
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 
 /**
  * YREWRITE Addon.
- *
- * @author jan.kristinus@yakamara.de
- *
+ * 
  * @package redaxo\yrewrite
  */
 
@@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ public static function init(): void
     public static function getForward($params)
     {
         // Url wurde von einer anderen Extension bereits gesetzt
-        if (isset($params['subject']) && '' != $params['subject']) {
+        if (isset($params['subject']) && $params['subject'] != '') {
             return $params['subject'];
         }
 
@@ -52,8 +50,13 @@ public static function getForward($params)
             }
 
             $pUrl = urldecode($p['url']);
-            /** @psalm-suppress RedundantCondition https://github.com/vimeo/psalm/issues/8125 */
-            if ($pUrl !== $url && $pUrl . '/' !== $url) {
+            $wildcardPos = strpos($pUrl, '*');
+            if ($wildcardPos !== false) {
+                $baseUrl = substr($pUrl, 0, $wildcardPos);
+                if (substr($url, 0, $wildcardPos) !== $baseUrl) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+            } elseif ($pUrl !== $url && $pUrl . '/' !== $url) {
                 continue;
             }
 
@@ -67,20 +70,20 @@ public static function getForward($params)
                 }
             }
 
-            if ('article' == $p['type'] && ($art = rex_article::get($p['article_id'], $p['clang']))) {
+            if ($p['type'] == 'article' && ($art = rex_article::get($p['article_id'], $p['clang']))) {
                 $forward_url = rex_getUrl($p['article_id'], $p['clang']);
-            } elseif ('media' == $p['type'] && ($media = rex_media::get($p['media']))) {
+            } elseif ($p['type'] == 'media' && ($media = rex_media::get($p['media']))) {
                 $forward_url = rex_url::media($p['media']);
-            } elseif ('extern' == $p['type'] && '' != $p['extern']) {
+            } elseif ($p['type'] == 'extern' && $p['extern'] != '') {
                 $forward_url = $p['extern'];
             }
 
-            if ('' != $forward_url) {
+            if ($forward_url != '') {
                 $matchingParams = count($p['params'] ?? []);
             }
         }
 
-        if ('' != $forward_url) {
+        if ($forward_url != '') {
             header('HTTP/1.1 '.self::$movetypes[$p['movetype']]);
             header('Location: ' . $forward_url);
             exit;
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ public static function generatePathFile(): void
             $row['url'] = mb_strtolower($url[0]);
 
             if (isset($url[1])) {
-                /** @phpstan-ignore-next-line */
+                /** @psalm-suppress RedundantCondition https://github.com/vimeo/psalm/issues/8125 */
                 parse_str($url[1], $row['params']);
             }
         }
diff --git a/pages/forward.php b/pages/forward.php
index 112f9ef..6e734a8 100644
--- a/pages/forward.php
+++ b/pages/forward.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     $yform->setValueField('choice', ['status', $this->i18n('forward_status'), $this->i18n('forward_active').'=1,'.$this->i18n('forward_inactive').'=0']);
     $yform->setValueField('choice', ['domain_id', $this->i18n('domain'), 'select id,domain as name from '.rex::getTable('yrewrite_domain') . ' ORDER BY name']);
     $yform->setValueField('text', ['url', $this->i18n('forward_url'), 'notice' => '<small>'.$this->i18n('forward_url_info').'</small>']);
-    $yform->setValidateField('preg_match', ['url', '@^[%_\.+\-\w]+[/%_\.+\,\-\w]*(?<!\/)(?:\?.+)?$@u', $this->i18n('warning_chars')]);
+    $yform->setValidateField('preg_match', ['url', '@^[%_\.+\-\w]+[/%_\.+\,\-\w]*(?<!\/)(?:\?.+)?\*?$@u', $this->i18n('warning_chars')]);
     // $this->i18n('warning_noslash')
     $yform->setValidateField('size_range', ['url', 1, 255, $this->i18n('warning_nottolong')]);
     $yform->setValidateField('empty', ['url', $this->i18n('forward_enter_url')]);