diff --git a/pkg/config/config.go b/pkg/config/config.go
index ede5b4102..ed701d8ac 100644
--- a/pkg/config/config.go
+++ b/pkg/config/config.go
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ const (
 	// UserAgentFormat is a formatted string used to generate user agent string.
 	UserAgentFormat = UserAgentWrapper + UserAgentPrefix + "%s" + UserAgentWrapper
 	// DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems is the default upper bound of traversed
-	// iterator items per JSON-RPC response.
+	// iterator items per JSON-RPC response. It covers both session-based and
+	// naive iterators.
 	DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems = 100
 	// DefaultMaxFindStorageResultItems is the default maximum number of resulting
 	// contract storage items that can be retrieved by `findstorge` JSON-RPC handler.
@@ -74,7 +75,6 @@ func LoadFile(configPath string) (Config, error) {
 				PingTimeout:  90 * time.Second,
 			},
 			RPC: RPC{
-				MaxIteratorResultItems:    DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems,
 				MaxFindResultItems:        100,
 				MaxFindStorageResultItems: DefaultMaxFindStorageResultItems,
 				MaxNEP11Tokens:            100,
diff --git a/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server.go b/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server.go
index a8bd13c45..9c588c3de 100644
--- a/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server.go
+++ b/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server.go
@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@ func New(chain Ledger, conf config.RPC, coreServer *network.Server,
 			log.Info("SessionPoolSize is not set or wrong, setting default value", zap.Int("SessionPoolSize", defaultSessionPoolSize))
 		}
 	}
+	if conf.MaxIteratorResultItems <= 0 {
+		conf.MaxIteratorResultItems = config.DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems
+		log.Info("MaxIteratorResultItems is not set or wrong, setting default value", zap.Int("MaxIteratorResultItems", config.DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems))
+	}
 	if conf.MaxWebSocketClients == 0 {
 		conf.MaxWebSocketClients = defaultMaxWebSocketClients
 		log.Info("MaxWebSocketClients is not set or wrong, setting default value", zap.Int("MaxWebSocketClients", defaultMaxWebSocketClients))
diff --git a/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server_test.go b/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server_test.go
index b85640d25..81c542e5c 100644
--- a/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server_test.go
+++ b/pkg/services/rpcsrv/server_test.go
@@ -2973,9 +2973,9 @@ func testRPCProtocol(t *testing.T, doRPCCall func(string, string, *testing.T) []
 		})
 		t.Run("count is out of range", func(t *testing.T) {
 			sID, iID := prepareIteratorSession(t)
-			rpc := fmt.Sprintf(`{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "traverseiterator", "params": ["%s", "%s", %d]}"`, sID.String(), iID.String(), rpcSrv.config.MaxIteratorResultItems+1)
+			rpc := fmt.Sprintf(`{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "traverseiterator", "params": ["%s", "%s", %d]}"`, sID.String(), iID.String(), config.DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems+1)
 			body := doRPCCall(rpc, httpSrv.URL, t)
-			checkErrGetResult(t, body, true, neorpc.InvalidParamsCode, fmt.Sprintf("iterator items count is out of range (%d at max)", rpcSrv.config.MaxIteratorResultItems))
+			checkErrGetResult(t, body, true, neorpc.InvalidParamsCode, fmt.Sprintf("iterator items count is out of range (%d at max)", config.DefaultMaxIteratorResultItems))
 		})
 		t.Run("unknown session", func(t *testing.T) {
 			_, iID := prepareIteratorSession(t)