diff --git a/core/app/sitemap.xml/route.ts b/core/app/sitemap.xml/route.ts
index 4054284e6c..0d188a4784 100644
--- a/core/app/sitemap.xml/route.ts
+++ b/core/app/sitemap.xml/route.ts
@@ -7,10 +7,77 @@ import { getChannelIdFromLocale } from '~/channels.config';
 import { client } from '~/client';
 import { defaultLocale } from '~/i18n/locales';
 
-export const GET = async () => {
+export const GET = async (request: Request) => {
+  const url = new URL(request.url);
+  const incomingHost = request.headers.get('host') ?? url.host;
+  const incomingProto = request.headers.get('x-forwarded-proto') ?? url.protocol.replace(':', '');
+
+  const type = url.searchParams.get('type');
+  const page = url.searchParams.get('page');
+
+  // If a specific sitemap within the index is requested, require both params
+  if (type !== null || page !== null) {
+    if (!type || !page) {
+      return new Response('Both "type" and "page" query params are required', {
+        status: 400,
+        headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' },
+      });
+    }
+
+    const upstream = await client.fetchSitemapResponse(
+      { type, page },
+      getChannelIdFromLocale(defaultLocale),
+    );
+
+    // Pass-through upstream status/body but enforce XML content-type
+    const body = await upstream.text();
+
+    return new Response(body, {
+      status: upstream.status,
+      statusText: upstream.statusText,
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/xml' },
+    });
+  }
+
+  // Otherwise, return the sitemap index with normalized internal links
   const sitemapIndex = await client.fetchSitemapIndex(getChannelIdFromLocale(defaultLocale));
 
-  return new Response(sitemapIndex, {
+  const rewritten = sitemapIndex.replace(
+    /<loc>([^<]+)<\/loc>/g,
+    (match: string, locUrlStr: string) => {
+      try {
+        // Decode XML entities for '&' so URL parsing works
+        const decoded: string = locUrlStr.replace(/&amp;/g, '&');
+        const original = new URL(decoded);
+
+        if (!original.pathname.endsWith('/xmlsitemap.php')) {
+          return match;
+        }
+
+        const normalized = new URL(`${incomingProto}://${incomingHost}/sitemap.xml`);
+
+        const t = original.searchParams.get('type');
+        const p = original.searchParams.get('page');
+
+        // Only rewrite entries that include both type and page; otherwise leave untouched
+        if (!t || !p) {
+          return match;
+        }
+
+        normalized.searchParams.set('type', t);
+        normalized.searchParams.set('page', p);
+
+        // Re-encode '&' for XML output
+        const normalizedXml: string = normalized.toString().replace(/&/g, '&amp;');
+
+        return `<loc>${normalizedXml}</loc>`;
+      } catch {
+        return match;
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
+  return new Response(rewritten, {
     headers: {
       'Content-Type': 'application/xml',
     },
diff --git a/packages/client/src/client.ts b/packages/client/src/client.ts
index dd25618110..7acf61a156 100644
--- a/packages/client/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/client/src/client.ts
@@ -210,6 +210,43 @@ class Client<FetcherRequestInit extends RequestInit = RequestInit> {
     return response.text();
   }
 
+  async fetchSitemap(
+    params: { type?: string | null; page?: string | number | null },
+    channelId?: string,
+  ): Promise<string> {
+    const response = await this.fetchSitemapResponse(params, channelId);
+
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      throw new Error(`Unable to get Sitemap: ${response.statusText}`);
+    }
+
+    return response.text();
+  }
+
+  async fetchSitemapResponse(
+    params: { type?: string | null; page?: string | number | null },
+    channelId?: string,
+  ): Promise<Response> {
+    const baseUrl = new URL(`${await this.getCanonicalUrl(channelId)}/xmlsitemap.php`);
+
+    // Only forward well-known params
+    if (params.type) baseUrl.searchParams.set('type', String(params.type));
+    if (params.page !== undefined && params.page !== null)
+      baseUrl.searchParams.set('page', String(params.page));
+
+    const response = await fetch(baseUrl.toString(), {
+      method: 'GET',
+      headers: {
+        Accept: 'application/xml',
+        'Content-Type': 'application/xml',
+        'User-Agent': this.backendUserAgent,
+        ...(this.trustedProxySecret && { 'X-BC-Trusted-Proxy-Secret': this.trustedProxySecret }),
+      },
+    });
+
+    return response;
+  }
+
   private async getCanonicalUrl(channelId?: string) {
     const resolvedChannelId = channelId ?? (await this.getChannelId(this.defaultChannelId));