diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dddcdeef8..9ab3b03cc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 - Tool string length validation counts Unicode characters correctly, including characters outside the basic multilingual plane.
 
 - Director timeline seeks cross the dateline along the short longitude arc.
-- Recent Imagery refuses missing bounding-box edges instead of interpreting them as zero coordinates.
 
 - Recent Imagery’s exported `setBox` and `searchHls` reject missing, blank or
   boolean programmatic box edges instead of interpreting them as zero coordinates.
diff --git a/src/layers/recentImagery/imagery-box-missing-edge.test.mjs b/src/layers/recentImagery/imagery-box-missing-edge.test.mjs
index 3e5a8e8a5..698bcaee5 100644
--- a/src/layers/recentImagery/imagery-box-missing-edge.test.mjs
+++ b/src/layers/recentImagery/imagery-box-missing-edge.test.mjs
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 import test from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
-import { validateBox, boxCentre } from './model.js';
+import {
+  boxCentre,
+  boxFromRectangle,
+  dequantizeBox,
+  validateBox,
+} from './model.js';
+import { searchHls } from './catalog.js';
+
 test('missing imagery edges do not turn into invented zero coordinates', () => {
   for (const value of [null, undefined, '', ' ', false, true]) {
     const box = { west: value, south: 0, east: 1, north: 1 };
@@ -14,3 +21,28 @@ test('missing imagery edges do not turn into invented zero coordinates', () => {
     true,
   );
 });
+
+test('every edge and every box entry point refuses a missing edge', async () => {
+  const blanks = [null, undefined, '', ' ', false, [], {}];
+  for (const edge of ['west', 'south', 'east', 'north']) {
+    for (const value of blanks) {
+      const box = { west: 1, south: 1, east: 2, north: 2, [edge]: value };
+      assert.equal(validateBox(box).ok, false, `${edge}=${String(value)}`);
+      // Share-link integers and Cesium radians are converted per edge.
+      assert.equal(dequantizeBox(box), null, `share ${edge}`);
+      assert.equal(boxFromRectangle(box), null, `radians ${edge}`);
+    }
+  }
+  let fetched = false;
+  await assert.rejects(
+    searchHls({
+      box: { west: ' ', south: 1, east: 2, north: 2 },
+      fetchImpl: async () => {
+        fetched = true;
+      },
+    }),
+    TypeError,
+  );
+  assert.equal(fetched, false);
+  assert.ok(dequantizeBox({ west: 0, south: 0, east: 100000, north: 100000 }));
+});
diff --git a/src/layers/recentImagery/model.js b/src/layers/recentImagery/model.js
index 63c5ec16c..24ef54fc6 100644
--- a/src/layers/recentImagery/model.js
+++ b/src/layers/recentImagery/model.js
@@ -75,20 +75,23 @@ const pad2 = (value) => String(value).padStart(2, '0');
  * east are not swapped: west > east crosses the dateline and `validateBox`
  * rejects it. Null when any edge is nonfinite.
  */
+/** A box edge as a number, or null when it is missing, blank or not numeric. */
+function edgeNumber(value) {
+  if (typeof value === 'number') return Number.isFinite(value) ? value : null;
+  if (typeof value !== 'string' || !value.trim()) return null;
+  const number = Number(value);
+  return Number.isFinite(number) ? number : null;
+}
+
 function normalizeBox(box) {
   if (!box || typeof box !== 'object') return null;
-  const edges = [box.west, box.south, box.east, box.north];
-  if (
-    edges.some(
-      (value) =>
-        value == null ||
-        typeof value === 'boolean' ||
-        (typeof value === 'string' && !value.trim()),
-    )
-  )
-    return null;
-  const [west, south, east, north] = edges.map(Number);
-  if (![west, south, east, north].every(Number.isFinite)) return null;
+  const [west, south, east, north] = [
+    box.west,
+    box.south,
+    box.east,
+    box.north,
+  ].map(edgeNumber);
+  if ([west, south, east, north].some((edge) => edge == null)) return null;
   return {
     west,
     south: Math.min(south, north),
@@ -216,11 +219,16 @@ export function boxFromPin(lon, lat, sideKm = PIN_BOX_SIDE_KM) {
 
 function mapBox(box, fn) {
   if (!box || typeof box !== 'object') return null;
+  // Converting first would turn a blank edge into 0 before normalizeBox sees it.
+  const edge = (value) => {
+    const number = edgeNumber(value);
+    return number == null ? null : fn(number);
+  };
   return normalizeBox({
-    west: fn(box.west),
-    south: fn(box.south),
-    east: fn(box.east),
-    north: fn(box.north),
+    west: edge(box.west),
+    south: edge(box.south),
+    east: edge(box.east),
+    north: edge(box.north),
   });
 }