diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9ed1a97b476..409bfdd5f3a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4574,6 +4574,10 @@
                 <param>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.filters.SuppressWithPlainTextCommentFilterTest</param>
                 <param>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.whitespace.FileTabCharacterCheckTest</param>
                 <param>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.NewlineAtEndOfFileCheckTest</param>
+                <!-- kills mutation in AutomaticBean -->
+                <param>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming.ParameterNameCheckTest</param>
+                <!-- kills mutation in AutomaticBean -->
+                <param>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.IllegalTypeCheckTest</param>
               </targetTests>
               <excludedTestClasses>
                 <param>*.Input*</param>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
index c9a23ef4b33..31df6e3eddb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/AutomaticBean.java
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ private static class RelaxedStringArrayConverter implements Converter {
         @Override
         public Object convert(Class type, Object value) {
             final StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(
-                value.toString(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
+                value.toString().trim(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
             final List<String> result = new ArrayList<>();
 
             while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ private static class RelaxedAccessModifierArrayConverter implements Converter {
         public Object convert(Class type, Object value) {
             // Converts to a String and trims it for the tokenizer.
             final StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(
-                value.toString(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
+                value.toString().trim(), COMMA_SEPARATOR);
             final List<AccessModifierOption> result = new ArrayList<>();
 
             while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/IllegalTypeCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/IllegalTypeCheckTest.java
index 7951296047d..f006b0e72ce 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/IllegalTypeCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/IllegalTypeCheckTest.java
@@ -389,6 +389,14 @@ public void testRecordComponentsPublicProtectedStatic() throws Exception {
                 expected);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testTrailingWhitespaceInConfig() throws Exception {
+        final String[] expected = CommonUtil.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
+        verifyWithInlineConfigParser(
+                getPath("InputIllegalTypeWhitespaceInConfig.java"),
+                expected);
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testTokensNotNull() {
         final IllegalTypeCheck check = new IllegalTypeCheck();
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/ParameterNameCheckTest.java b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/ParameterNameCheckTest.java
index bcc678dc2db..42bd84853ad 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/ParameterNameCheckTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/ParameterNameCheckTest.java
@@ -178,4 +178,11 @@ public void testLambdaParameterNoViolationAtAll() throws Exception {
                 getPath("InputParameterNameLambda.java"), expected);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testWhitespaceInConfig() throws Exception {
+        final String[] expected = CommonUtil.EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
+        verifyWithInlineConfigParser(
+                getPath("InputParameterNameWhitespaceInConfig.java"), expected);
+    }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/illegaltype/InputIllegalTypeWhitespaceInConfig.java b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/illegaltype/InputIllegalTypeWhitespaceInConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31fd6334b24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/illegaltype/InputIllegalTypeWhitespaceInConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/*
+IllegalType
+validateAbstractClassNames = (default)false
+illegalClassNames = java.lang.StringBuffer,\t
+legalAbstractClassNames = (default)
+ignoredMethodNames = (default)getEnvironment, getInitialContext
+illegalAbstractClassNameFormat = (default)^(.*[.])?Abstract.*$
+memberModifiers = (default)
+tokens = (default)ANNOTATION_FIELD_DEF, CLASS_DEF, INTERFACE_DEF, METHOD_CALL, METHOD_DEF, \
+         METHOD_REF, PARAMETER_DEF, VARIABLE_DEF, PATTERN_VARIABLE_DEF, RECORD_DEF, \
+         RECORD_COMPONENT_DEF
+
+
+*/
+package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.illegaltype;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class InputIllegalTypeWhitespaceInConfig {
+    public void example(List<@MyPattern String> strings) { // ok
+    }
+
+    @Target(ElementType.TYPE_USE)
+    public @interface MyPattern {}
+}
+
diff --git a/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/parametername/InputParameterNameWhitespaceInConfig.java b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/parametername/InputParameterNameWhitespaceInConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0397160fbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/naming/parametername/InputParameterNameWhitespaceInConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/*
+ParameterName
+format = (default)^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*$
+ignoreOverridden = (default)false
+accessModifiers = public\t,\t
+
+
+*/
+
+package com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.naming.parametername;
+
+public class InputParameterNameWhitespaceInConfig {
+    int method(){return 1;} // ok
+}