diff --git a/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts b/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
index ff896bf22..ca4313114 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
@@ -2114,16 +2114,26 @@ export const secretV2BridgeServiceFactory = ({
         [`${TableName.SecretV2}.id` as "id"]: secretIds
       }
     });
+
+    const sourceActions = [
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Delete,
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.ReadValue,
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.DescribeSecret
+    ] as const;
+    const destinationActions = [ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Create, ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Edit] as const;
+
     sourceSecrets.forEach((secret) => {
-      ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
-        ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Delete,
-        subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
-          environment: sourceEnvironment,
-          secretPath: sourceSecretPath,
-          secretName: secret.key,
-          secretTags: secret.tags.map((el) => el.slug)
-        })
-      );
+      for (const sourceAction of sourceActions) {
+        ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
+          sourceAction,
+          subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
+            environment: sourceEnvironment,
+            secretPath: sourceSecretPath,
+            secretName: secret.key,
+            secretTags: secret.tags.map((el) => el.slug)
+          })
+        );
+      }
     });
 
     if (sourceSecrets.length !== secretIds.length) {
@@ -2198,27 +2208,17 @@ export const secretV2BridgeServiceFactory = ({
 
       // permission check whether can create or edit the ones in the destination folder
       locallyCreatedSecrets.forEach((secret) => {
-        ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
-          ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Create,
-          subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
-            environment: destinationEnvironment,
-            secretPath: destinationEnvironment,
-            secretName: secret.key,
-            secretTags: secret.tags.map((el) => el.slug)
-          })
-        );
-      });
-
-      locallyUpdatedSecrets.forEach((secret) => {
-        ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
-          ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Edit,
-          subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
-            environment: destinationEnvironment,
-            secretPath: destinationEnvironment,
-            secretName: secret.key,
-            secretTags: secret.tags.map((el) => el.slug)
-          })
-        );
+        for (const destinationAction of destinationActions) {
+          ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
+            destinationAction,
+            subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
+              environment: destinationEnvironment,
+              secretPath: destinationFolder.path,
+              secretName: secret.key,
+              secretTags: secret.tags.map((el) => el.slug)
+            })
+          );
+        }
       });
 
       const destinationFolderPolicy = await secretApprovalPolicyService.getSecretApprovalPolicy(
diff --git a/backend/src/services/secret/secret-dal.ts b/backend/src/services/secret/secret-dal.ts
index cbaf7ddcd..dc41d129f 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/secret/secret-dal.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/secret/secret-dal.ts
@@ -169,6 +169,48 @@ export const secretDALFactory = (db: TDbClient) => {
     }
   };
 
+  const findManySecretsWithTags = async (
+    filter: {
+      secretIds: string[];
+      type: SecretType;
+    },
+    tx?: Knex
+  ) => {
+    try {
+      const secrets = await (tx || db.replicaNode())(TableName.Secret)
+        .whereIn(`${TableName.Secret}.id` as "id", filter.secretIds)
+        .where("type", filter.type)
+        .leftJoin(TableName.JnSecretTag, `${TableName.Secret}.id`, `${TableName.JnSecretTag}.${TableName.Secret}Id`)
+        .leftJoin(TableName.SecretTag, `${TableName.JnSecretTag}.${TableName.SecretTag}Id`, `${TableName.SecretTag}.id`)
+        .select(selectAllTableCols(TableName.Secret))
+        .select(db.ref("id").withSchema(TableName.SecretTag).as("tagId"))
+        .select(db.ref("color").withSchema(TableName.SecretTag).as("tagColor"))
+        .select(db.ref("slug").withSchema(TableName.SecretTag).as("tagSlug"));
+
+      const data = sqlNestRelationships({
+        data: secrets,
+        key: "id",
+        parentMapper: (el) => ({ _id: el.id, ...SecretsSchema.parse(el) }),
+        childrenMapper: [
+          {
+            key: "tagId",
+            label: "tags" as const,
+            mapper: ({ tagId: id, tagColor: color, tagSlug: slug }) => ({
+              id,
+              color,
+              slug,
+              name: slug
+            })
+          }
+        ]
+      });
+
+      return data;
+    } catch (error) {
+      throw new DatabaseError({ error, name: "get many secrets with tags" });
+    }
+  };
+
   const findByFolderIds = async (folderIds: string[], userId?: string, tx?: Knex) => {
     try {
       // check if not uui then userId id is null (corner case because service token's ID is not UUI in effort to keep backwards compatibility from mongo)
@@ -443,6 +485,7 @@ export const secretDALFactory = (db: TDbClient) => {
     upsertSecretReferences,
     findReferencedSecretReferences,
     findAllProjectSecretValues,
-    pruneSecretReminders
+    pruneSecretReminders,
+    findManySecretsWithTags
   };
 };
diff --git a/backend/src/services/secret/secret-service.ts b/backend/src/services/secret/secret-service.ts
index 66f1e4eaa..787dfde56 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/secret/secret-service.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/secret/secret-service.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   ActionProjectType,
   ProjectMembershipRole,
   ProjectUpgradeStatus,
+  ProjectVersion,
   SecretEncryptionAlgo,
   SecretKeyEncoding,
   SecretsSchema,
@@ -2730,7 +2731,7 @@ export const secretServiceFactory = ({
         message: `Project with slug '${projectSlug}' not found`
       });
     }
-    if (project.version === 3) {
+    if (project.version === ProjectVersion.V3) {
       return secretV2BridgeService.moveSecrets({
         sourceEnvironment,
         sourceSecretPath,
@@ -2755,34 +2756,6 @@ export const secretServiceFactory = ({
       actionProjectType: ActionProjectType.SecretManager
     });
 
-    const permissionChecks = [
-      {
-        action: ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Delete,
-        subject: {
-          environment: sourceEnvironment,
-          secretPath: sourceSecretPath
-        }
-      },
-      {
-        action: ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Create,
-        subject: {
-          environment: destinationEnvironment,
-          secretPath: destinationSecretPath
-        }
-      },
-      {
-        action: ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Edit,
-        subject: {
-          environment: destinationEnvironment,
-          secretPath: destinationSecretPath
-        }
-      }
-    ] as const;
-
-    for (const { action, subject: permissionSubject } of permissionChecks) {
-      ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(action, subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, permissionSubject));
-    }
-
     const { botKey } = await projectBotService.getBotKey(project.id);
     if (!botKey) {
       throw new NotFoundError({
@@ -2810,11 +2783,9 @@ export const secretServiceFactory = ({
       });
     }
 
-    const sourceSecrets = await secretDAL.find({
+    const sourceSecrets = await secretDAL.findManySecretsWithTags({
       type: SecretType.Shared,
-      $in: {
-        id: secretIds
-      }
+      secretIds
     });
 
     if (sourceSecrets.length !== secretIds.length) {
@@ -2823,21 +2794,60 @@ export const secretServiceFactory = ({
       });
     }
 
-    const decryptedSourceSecrets = sourceSecrets.map((secret) => ({
-      ...secret,
-      secretKey: decryptSymmetric128BitHexKeyUTF8({
+    const sourceActions = [
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Delete,
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.DescribeSecret,
+      ProjectPermissionSecretActions.ReadValue
+    ] as const;
+    const destinationActions = [ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Create, ProjectPermissionSecretActions.Edit] as const;
+
+    const decryptedSourceSecrets = sourceSecrets.map((secret) => {
+      const secretKey = decryptSymmetric128BitHexKeyUTF8({
         ciphertext: secret.secretKeyCiphertext,
         iv: secret.secretKeyIV,
         tag: secret.secretKeyTag,
         key: botKey
-      }),
-      secretValue: decryptSymmetric128BitHexKeyUTF8({
-        ciphertext: secret.secretValueCiphertext,
-        iv: secret.secretValueIV,
-        tag: secret.secretValueTag,
-        key: botKey
-      })
-    }));
+      });
+
+      for (const destinationAction of destinationActions) {
+        ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
+          destinationAction,
+          subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
+            environment: destinationEnvironment,
+            secretPath: destinationSecretPath,
+            secretName: secretKey,
+            ...(secret.tags.length && {
+              secretTags: secret.tags.map((t) => t.id)
+            })
+          })
+        );
+      }
+
+      for (const sourceAction of sourceActions) {
+        ForbiddenError.from(permission).throwUnlessCan(
+          sourceAction,
+          subject(ProjectPermissionSub.Secrets, {
+            environment: sourceEnvironment,
+            secretPath: sourceSecretPath,
+            secretName: secretKey,
+            ...(secret.tags.length && {
+              secretTags: secret.tags.map((t) => t.id)
+            })
+          })
+        );
+      }
+
+      return {
+        ...secret,
+        secretKey,
+        secretValue: decryptSymmetric128BitHexKeyUTF8({
+          ciphertext: secret.secretValueCiphertext,
+          iv: secret.secretValueIV,
+          tag: secret.secretValueTag,
+          key: botKey
+        })
+      };
+    });
 
     let isSourceUpdated = false;
     let isDestinationUpdated = false;