diff --git a/src/Formidable.js b/src/Formidable.js
index 5ea964e0..ce492c1c 100644
--- a/src/Formidable.js
+++ b/src/Formidable.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import dezalgo from 'dezalgo';
 import { EventEmitter } from 'node:events';
 import fsPromises from 'node:fs/promises';
 import os from 'node:os';
+import stream from 'node:stream';
 import path from 'node:path';
 import { StringDecoder } from 'node:string_decoder';
 import once from 'once';
@@ -201,8 +202,8 @@ class IncomingForm extends EventEmitter {
       }
     }
     const callback = once(dezalgo(cb));
-    this.fields = {};
-    const files = {};
+    this.fields = Object.create(null);
+    const files = Object.create(null);
 
     this.on('field', (name, value) => {
       if (this.type === 'multipart' || this.type === 'urlencoded') {
@@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ class IncomingForm extends EventEmitter {
         break;
       
       default: 
-        pipe = node_stream.Transform({
+        pipe = stream.Transform({
           transform: function (chunk, encoding, callback)  {
             callback(null, chunk);
           }
diff --git a/src/plugins/json.js b/src/plugins/json.js
index ca1e6f24..9503f0ac 100644
--- a/src/plugins/json.js
+++ b/src/plugins/json.js
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ function init(_self, _opts) {
   const parser = new JSONParser(this.options);
 
   parser.on('data', (fields) => {
-    this.fields = fields;
+    this.fields = Object.assign(Object.create(null), fields);
   });
 
   parser.once('end', () => {
diff --git a/test-node/standalone/prototype_contamination.test.js b/test-node/standalone/prototype_contamination.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3efdaf71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-node/standalone/prototype_contamination.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import { ok, strictEqual } from 'node:assert';
+import { createServer } from 'node:http';
+import test from 'node:test';
+import formidable, { errors } from '../../src/index.js';
+
+
+
+let server;
+let port = 13000;
+
+test.beforeEach(() => {
+    // Increment port to avoid conflicts between tests
+    port += 1;
+    server = createServer();
+});
+
+test('prototype contamination', async (t) => {
+    server.on('request', async (req, res) => {
+        const form = formidable();
+
+        const [fields, files] = await form.parse(req);
+
+        res.writeHead(200);
+        res.end("ok");
+
+        let a;
+        try {
+            a = typeof String(fields);
+        } catch {
+            ;
+        }
+        strictEqual(a, undefined, "the toString method should not be used directly");
+
+    });
+
+    await new Promise(resolve => server.listen(port, resolve));
+
+    const body = `{"toString":"x","hasOwnProperty":"x","a":5}`;
+
+    const resClient = await fetch(String(new URL(`http:localhost:${port}/`)), {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: {
+            'Content-Length': body.length,
+            Host: `localhost:${port}`,
+            'Content-Type': 'text/json;',
+        },
+        body
+    });
+
+    strictEqual(resClient.status, 200);
+
+    const text = await resClient.text();
+
+    ok(text);
+});
+
+test('should not use unsafe methods on user provided objects', async (t) => {
+    server.on('request', async (req, res) => {
+        const form = formidable();
+
+        const [fields, files] = await form.parse(req);
+
+        res.writeHead(200);
+        res.end("ok");
+
+        let a;
+        try {
+            a = typeof String(fields);
+        } catch {
+            ;
+        }
+        strictEqual(a, undefined, "the toString method should not be used directly");
+
+    });
+
+    await new Promise(resolve => server.listen(port, resolve));
+
+    const body = `{"a":"x","b":"x","z":5}`;
+
+    const resClient = await fetch(String(new URL(`http:localhost:${port}/`)), {
+        method: 'POST',
+        headers: {
+            'Content-Length': body.length,
+            Host: `localhost:${port}`,
+            'Content-Type': 'text/json;',
+        },
+        body
+    });
+
+    strictEqual(resClient.status, 200);
+
+    const text = await resClient.text();
+
+    ok(text);
+});
+
+
+
+test.afterEach(async () => {
+    await new Promise((resolve) => {
+        if (server.listening) {
+            server.close(() => resolve());
+        } else {
+            resolve();
+        }
+    });
+});