diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/editor.js b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/editor.js
index 2ba04ed890..fb4a56f5c6 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/editor.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/editor.js
@@ -788,6 +788,14 @@ export default class EditorController extends Controller {
             this._koenig.cleanup();
         }
 
+        // user can enter the slug name and then leave the post page,
+        // in such case we should wait until the slug would be saved on backend
+        if (this.updateSlugTask.isRunning) {
+            transition.abort();
+            await this.updateSlugTask.last;
+            return transition.retry();
+        }
+
         let hasDirtyAttributes = this.hasDirtyAttributes;
         let state = post.getProperties('isDeleted', 'isSaving', 'hasDirtyAttributes', 'isNew');
 
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
index 2e113d078e..d4fcb6304e 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
@@ -791,6 +791,14 @@ export default class LexicalEditorController extends Controller {
         //     this._koenig.cleanup();
         // }
 
+        // user can enter the slug name and then leave the post page,
+        // in such case we should wait until the slug would be saved on backend
+        if (this.updateSlugTask.isRunning) {
+            transition.abort();
+            await this.updateSlugTask.last;
+            return transition.retry();
+        }
+
         let hasDirtyAttributes = this.hasDirtyAttributes;
         let state = post.getProperties('isDeleted', 'isSaving', 'hasDirtyAttributes', 'isNew');