diff --git a/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/component/index.tsx b/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/component/index.tsx
index b231677d26..f6c59d1bd0 100644
--- a/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/component/index.tsx
+++ b/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/component/index.tsx
@@ -99,10 +99,16 @@ function MultiSelectComponent({
     [isSelectAll, options, loading],
   );
 
+  // Convert the values to string before searching.
+  // input is always a string.
   const filterOption = useCallback(
     (input, option) =>
-      option?.props.label.toLowerCase().indexOf(input.toLowerCase()) >= 0 ||
-      option?.props.value.toLowerCase().indexOf(input.toLowerCase()) >= 0,
+      String(option?.props.label)
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .indexOf(input.toLowerCase()) >= 0 ||
+      String(option?.props.value)
+        .toLowerCase()
+        .indexOf(input.toLowerCase()) >= 0,
     [],
   );
 
diff --git a/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/widget/index.tsx b/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/widget/index.tsx
index 00be5cf7ad..61766e2367 100644
--- a/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/widget/index.tsx
+++ b/app/client/src/widgets/MultiSelectWidget/widget/index.tsx
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ class MultiSelectWidget extends BaseWidget<
                         name: "label",
                         type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
                         params: {
+                          default: "",
                           required: true,
                         },
                       },
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ class MultiSelectWidget extends BaseWidget<
                         name: "value",
                         type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
                         params: {
+                          default: "",
                           required: true,
                         },
                       },
@@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ class MultiSelectWidget extends BaseWidget<
             propertyName: "defaultOptionValue",
             label: "Default Value",
             controlType: "INPUT_TEXT",
-            placeholderText: "GREEN",
+            placeholderText: "[GREEN]",
             isBindProperty: true,
             isTriggerProperty: false,
             validation: {
@@ -102,8 +104,8 @@ class MultiSelectWidget extends BaseWidget<
               params: {
                 fn: defaultOptionValueValidation,
                 expected: {
-                  type: "value or Array of values",
-                  example: `option1 | ['option1', 'option2']`,
+                  type: "Array of values",
+                  example: `['option1', 'option2']`,
                   autocompleteDataType: AutocompleteDataType.ARRAY,
                 },
               },
diff --git a/app/client/src/workers/validations.test.ts b/app/client/src/workers/validations.test.ts
index 6bcc6e1de7..6c26978b24 100644
--- a/app/client/src/workers/validations.test.ts
+++ b/app/client/src/workers/validations.test.ts
@@ -962,229 +962,6 @@ describe("Validate Validators", () => {
       expect(result).toStrictEqual(expected);
     });
   });
-  it("correctly validates objects", () => {
-    const inputs = [
-      {
-        label: true,
-        value: "true",
-      },
-      {
-        label: true,
-        value: "true",
-      },
-      {
-        paletteColors1: "#ffffff",
-        palettecolors2: "#ffffff",
-      },
-    ];
-    const config = [
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          required: true,
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "label",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "value",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-                unique: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          required: true,
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "label",
-              type: ValidationTypes.BOOLEAN,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "value",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-                unique: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "paletteColors1",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                strict: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "paletteColors2",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                strict: true,
-                ignoreCase: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-    ];
-    const expected = [
-      {
-        isValid: true,
-        parsed: {
-          label: "true",
-          value: "true",
-        },
-      },
-      {
-        isValid: true,
-        parsed: { label: true, value: "true" },
-      },
-      {
-        isValid: true,
-        parsed: {
-          paletteColors1: "#ffffff",
-          palettecolors2: "#ffffff",
-        },
-      },
-    ];
-    inputs.forEach((input, index) => {
-      const result = validate(config[index], input, DUMMY_WIDGET);
-      expect(result).toStrictEqual(expected[index]);
-    });
-  });
-  it("correctly validates objects to fail", () => {
-    const inputs = [
-      {
-        labels: true,
-        values: "true",
-      },
-      {
-        label: true,
-      },
-      {
-        paletteColors1: "#ffffff",
-        palettecolors2: 3,
-      },
-    ];
-    const config = [
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          required: true,
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "label",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "value",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-                unique: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          required: true,
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "label",
-              type: ValidationTypes.BOOLEAN,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "value",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                required: true,
-                unique: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-      {
-        type: ValidationTypes.OBJECT,
-        params: {
-          allowedKeys: [
-            {
-              name: "paletteColors1",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                strict: true,
-              },
-            },
-            {
-              name: "paletteColors2",
-              type: ValidationTypes.TEXT,
-              params: {
-                strict: true,
-                ignoreCase: true,
-              },
-            },
-          ],
-        },
-      },
-    ];
-    const expected = [
-      {
-        isValid: false,
-        parsed: {
-          labels: true,
-          values: "true",
-        },
-        message: "Missing required key: label Missing required key: value",
-      },
-      {
-        isValid: false,
-        message: "Missing required key: value",
-        parsed: { label: true },
-      },
-      {
-        isValid: false,
-        message:
-          "Value of key: palettecolors2 is invalid: This value does not evaluate to type string",
-        parsed: {
-          paletteColors1: "#ffffff",
-          palettecolors2: "",
-        },
-      },
-    ];
-    inputs.forEach((input, index) => {
-      const result = validate(config[index], input, DUMMY_WIDGET);
-      expect(result).toStrictEqual(expected[index]);
-    });
-  });
 });
 
 // describe("Color Picker Text validator", () => {
diff --git a/app/client/src/workers/validations.ts b/app/client/src/workers/validations.ts
index f2a8825128..9a7ef08732 100644
--- a/app/client/src/workers/validations.ts
+++ b/app/client/src/workers/validations.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ function validatePlainObject(
   if (config.params?.allowedKeys) {
     let _valid = true;
     const _messages: string[] = [];
-    const parsedValue: Record<string, unknown> = value;
     config.params.allowedKeys.forEach((entry) => {
       const ignoreCase = !!entry.params?.ignoreCase;
       const entryName = getPropertyEntry(value, entry.name, ignoreCase);
@@ -65,7 +64,6 @@ function validatePlainObject(
           value[entryName],
           props,
         );
-        parsedValue[entryName] = parsed;
         if (!isValid) {
           value[entryName] = parsed;
           _valid = isValid;
@@ -80,7 +78,7 @@ function validatePlainObject(
     if (_valid) {
       return {
         isValid: true,
-        parsed: parsedValue,
+        parsed: value,
       };
     }
     return {
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ function validateArray(
     config.params?.children?.type === ValidationTypes.OBJECT &&
     (config.params.children.params?.allowedKeys || []).length > 0
   ) {
-    const allowedKeysConfigArray =
+    const allowedKeysCofigArray =
       config.params.children.params?.allowedKeys || [];
 
     const allowedKeys = (config.params.children.params?.allowedKeys || []).map(
@@ -131,7 +129,7 @@ function validateArray(
     };
 
     const valueWithType = value as ItemType[];
-    allowedKeysConfigArray.forEach((allowedKeyConfig) => {
+    allowedKeysCofigArray.forEach((allowedKeyConfig) => {
       if (allowedKeyConfig.params?.unique) {
         const allowedKeyValues = valueWithType.map(
           (item) => item[allowedKeyConfig.name],
@@ -354,6 +352,7 @@ export const VALIDATORS: Record<ValidationTypes, Validator> = {
         isValid: false,
       };
     }
+
     return {
       isValid: true,
       parsed,