diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
index 36ebffa44636..aeed55172daf 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters.nix
@@ -197,13 +197,17 @@ in
 
   config = mkMerge ([{
     assertions = [ {
-      assertion = (cfg.snmp.configurationPath == null) != (cfg.snmp.configuration == null);
+      assertion = cfg.snmp.enable -> (
+        (cfg.snmp.configurationPath == null) != (cfg.snmp.configuration == null)
+      );
       message = ''
         Please ensure you have either `services.prometheus.exporters.snmp.configuration'
           or `services.prometheus.exporters.snmp.configurationPath' set!
       '';
     } {
-      assertion = (cfg.mail.configFile == null) != (cfg.mail.configuration == {});
+      assertion = cfg.mail.enable -> (
+        (cfg.mail.configFile == null) != (cfg.mail.configuration == null)
+      );
       message = ''
         Please specify either 'services.prometheus.exporters.mail.configuration'
           or 'services.prometheus.exporters.mail.configFile'.
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/blackbox.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/blackbox.nix
index 8a90afa99842..fe8d905da3fe 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/blackbox.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/blackbox.nix
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ in {
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-blackbox-exporter}/bin/blackbox_exporter \
           --web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
-          --config.file ${adjustedConfigFile} \
+          --config.file ${escapeShellArg adjustedConfigFile} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
       ExecReload = "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID";
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/collectd.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/collectd.nix
index 1cc346418091..972104630275 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/collectd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/collectd.nix
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ in
     serviceConfig = {
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-collectd-exporter}/bin/collectd_exporter \
-          -log.format ${cfg.logFormat} \
+          -log.format ${escapeShellArg cfg.logFormat} \
           -log.level ${cfg.logLevel} \
           -web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           ${collectSettingsArgs} \
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dnsmasq.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dnsmasq.nix
index e9fa26cb1f5a..68afba21d64a 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dnsmasq.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dnsmasq.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-dnsmasq-exporter}/bin/dnsmasq_exporter \
           --listen ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           --dnsmasq ${cfg.dnsmasqListenAddress} \
-          --leases_path ${cfg.leasesPath} \
+          --leases_path ${escapeShellArg cfg.leasesPath} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
     };
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dovecot.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dovecot.nix
index a01074758ff8..aba3533e4395 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dovecot.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/dovecot.nix
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-dovecot-exporter}/bin/dovecot_exporter \
           --web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           --web.telemetry-path ${cfg.telemetryPath} \
-          --dovecot.socket-path ${cfg.socketPath} \
+          --dovecot.socket-path ${escapeShellArg cfg.socketPath} \
           --dovecot.scopes ${concatStringsSep "," cfg.scopes} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/json.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/json.nix
index 82a55bafc982..bd0026b55f72 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/json.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/json.nix
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ in
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-json-exporter}/bin/prometheus-json-exporter \
           --port ${toString cfg.port} \
-          ${cfg.url} ${cfg.configFile} \
+          ${cfg.url} ${escapeShellArg cfg.configFile} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
     };
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/mail.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/mail.nix
index 7d8c6fb61404..18c5c4dd1623 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/mail.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/mail.nix
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ let
         Timeout until mails are considered "didn't make it".
       '';
     };
-    disableFileDelition = mkOption {
+    disableFileDeletion = mkOption {
       type = types.bool;
       default = false;
       description = ''
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ in
       '';
     };
     configuration = mkOption {
-      type = types.submodule exporterOptions;
-      default = {};
+      type = types.nullOr (types.submodule exporterOptions);
+      default = null;
       description = ''
         Specify the mailexporter configuration file to use.
       '';
@@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ in
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-mail-exporter}/bin/mailexporter \
           --web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
+          --web.telemetry-path ${cfg.telemetryPath} \
           --config.file ${
-            if cfg.configuration != {} then configurationFile else cfg.configFile
+            if cfg.configuration != null then configurationFile else (escapeShellArg cfg.configFile)
           } \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/minio.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/minio.nix
index ab3e3d7d5d50..d6dd62f871bd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/minio.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/minio.nix
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-minio-exporter}/bin/minio-exporter \
           -web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           -minio.server ${cfg.minioAddress} \
-          -minio.access-key ${cfg.minioAccessKey} \
-          -minio.access-secret ${cfg.minioAccessSecret} \
+          -minio.access-key ${escapeShellArg cfg.minioAccessKey} \
+          -minio.access-secret ${escapeShellArg cfg.minioAccessSecret} \
           ${optionalString cfg.minioBucketStats "-minio.bucket-stats"} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nextcloud.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nextcloud.nix
index 5f9a52053f79..aee6bd5e66ce 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nextcloud.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/nextcloud.nix
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ in
           -u ${cfg.username} \
           -t ${cfg.timeout} \
           -l ${cfg.url} \
-          -p @${cfg.passwordFile} \
+          -p ${escapeShellArg "@${cfg.passwordFile}"} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
       '';
     };
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/postfix.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/postfix.nix
index d50564717eaf..3b6ef1631f89 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/postfix.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/postfix.nix
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-postfix-exporter}/bin/postfix_exporter \
           --web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           --web.telemetry-path ${cfg.telemetryPath} \
-          --postfix.showq_path ${cfg.showqPath} \
+          --postfix.showq_path ${escapeShellArg cfg.showqPath} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " (cfg.extraFlags
           ++ optional cfg.systemd.enable "--systemd.enable"
           ++ optional cfg.systemd.enable (if cfg.systemd.slice != null
                                           then "--systemd.slice ${cfg.systemd.slice}"
                                           else "--systemd.unit ${cfg.systemd.unit}")
           ++ optional (cfg.systemd.enable && (cfg.systemd.journalPath != null))
-                       "--systemd.journal_path ${cfg.systemd.journalPath}"
-          ++ optional (!cfg.systemd.enable) "--postfix.logfile_path ${cfg.logfilePath}")}
+                       "--systemd.journal_path ${escapeShellArg cfg.systemd.journalPath}"
+          ++ optional (!cfg.systemd.enable) "--postfix.logfile_path ${escapeShellArg cfg.logfilePath}")}
       '';
     };
   };
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/snmp.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/snmp.nix
index fe7ae8a8ac90..045e48a3d0f8 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/snmp.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/snmp.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ in
 
     configuration = mkOption {
       type = types.nullOr types.attrs;
-      default = {};
+      default = null;
       description = ''
         Snmp exporter configuration as nix attribute set. Mutually exclusive with 'configurationPath' option.
       '';
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ in
     };
 
     logFormat = mkOption {
-      type = types.str;
-      default = "logger:stderr";
+      type = types.enum ["logfmt" "json"];
+      default = "logfmt";
       description = ''
-        Set the log target and format.
+        Output format of log messages.
       '';
     };
 
     logLevel = mkOption {
-      type = types.enum ["debug" "info" "warn" "error" "fatal"];
+      type = types.enum ["debug" "info" "warn" "error"];
       default = "info";
       description = ''
         Only log messages with the given severity or above.
@@ -54,13 +54,13 @@ in
   serviceOpts = let
     configFile = if cfg.configurationPath != null
                  then cfg.configurationPath
-                 else "${pkgs.writeText "snmp-eporter-conf.yml" (builtins.toJSON cfg.configuration)}";
+                 else "${pkgs.writeText "snmp-exporter-conf.yml" (builtins.toJSON cfg.configuration)}";
     in {
     serviceConfig = {
       ExecStart = ''
         ${pkgs.prometheus-snmp-exporter.bin}/bin/snmp_exporter \
-          --config.file=${configFile} \
-          --log.format=${cfg.logFormat} \
+          --config.file=${escapeShellArg configFile} \
+          --log.format=${escapeShellArg cfg.logFormat} \
           --log.level=${cfg.logLevel} \
           --web.listen-address=${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/unifi.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/unifi.nix
index 9aa0f1b85aac..8d0e8764001c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/unifi.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/unifi.nix
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-unifi-exporter}/bin/unifi_exporter \
           -telemetry.addr ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           -unifi.addr ${cfg.unifiAddress} \
-          -unifi.username ${cfg.unifiUsername} \
-          -unifi.password ${cfg.unifiPassword} \
+          -unifi.username ${escapeShellArg cfg.unifiUsername} \
+          -unifi.password ${escapeShellArg cfg.unifiPassword} \
           -unifi.timeout ${cfg.unifiTimeout} \
           ${optionalString cfg.unifiInsecure "-unifi.insecure" } \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " cfg.extraFlags}
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/varnish.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/varnish.nix
index 12153fa021ec..5b5a6e18fcd6 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/varnish.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/varnish.nix
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ in
         ${pkgs.prometheus-varnish-exporter}/bin/prometheus_varnish_exporter \
           --web.listen-address ${cfg.listenAddress}:${toString cfg.port} \
           --web.telemetry-path ${cfg.telemetryPath} \
-          --varnishstat-path ${cfg.varnishStatPath} \
+          --varnishstat-path ${escapeShellArg cfg.varnishStatPath} \
           ${concatStringsSep " \\\n  " (cfg.extraFlags
             ++ optional (cfg.healthPath != null) "--web.health-path ${cfg.healthPath}"
-            ++ optional (cfg.instance != null) "-n ${cfg.instance}"
+            ++ optional (cfg.instance != null) "-n ${escapeShellArg cfg.instance}"
             ++ optional cfg.noExit "--no-exit"
             ++ optional cfg.withGoMetrics "--with-go-metrics"
             ++ optional cfg.verbose "--verbose"
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/wireguard.nix b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/wireguard.nix
index 374f83a2939d..04421fc2d25a 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/wireguard.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/monitoring/prometheus/exporters/wireguard.nix
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ in {
           ${optionalString cfg.verbose "-v"} \
           ${optionalString cfg.singleSubnetPerField "-s"} \
           ${optionalString cfg.withRemoteIp "-r"} \
-          ${optionalString (cfg.wireguardConfig != null) "-n ${cfg.wireguardConfig}"}
+          ${optionalString (cfg.wireguardConfig != null) "-n ${escapeShellArg cfg.wireguardConfig}"}
       '';
     };
   };
diff --git a/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix b/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
index 3d0d00bfbe63..b84e589e84cb 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/prometheus-exporters.nix
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ let
           after = [ "postfix.service" ];
           requires = [ "postfix.service" ];
           preStart = ''
-            mkdir -p 0600 mail-exporter/new
+            mkdir -p -m 0700 mail-exporter/new
           '';
           serviceConfig = {
             ProtectHome = true;