diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/__fixtures__/website/src/pages/hello/index.md b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/__fixtures__/website/src/pages/hello/index.md
index 3d83ddb74e..eb1ef1c7cb 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/__fixtures__/website/src/pages/hello/index.md
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/__fixtures__/website/src/pages/hello/index.md
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+# Index
 
-Markdown index page
\ No newline at end of file
+Markdown index page
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/index.test.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
index 6b2dd03b0f..db1979436e 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/__tests__/index.test.ts
@@ -39,11 +39,20 @@ describe('docusaurus-plugin-content-pages', () => {
         type: 'mdx',
         permalink: '/hello/',
         source: path.posix.join('@site', pluginPath, 'hello', 'index.md'),
+        description: 'Markdown index page',
+        frontMatter: {},
+        title: 'Index',
       },
       {
         type: 'mdx',
         permalink: '/hello/mdxPage',
         source: path.posix.join('@site', pluginPath, 'hello', 'mdxPage.mdx'),
+        description: 'my mdx page',
+        title: 'mdx page',
+        frontMatter: {
+          description: 'my mdx page',
+          title: 'mdx page',
+        },
       },
       {
         type: 'jsx',
@@ -64,6 +73,9 @@ describe('docusaurus-plugin-content-pages', () => {
           'hello',
           'translatedMd.md',
         ),
+        description: 'translated markdown page',
+        frontMatter: {},
+        title: undefined,
       },
       {
         type: 'jsx',
@@ -113,11 +125,20 @@ describe('docusaurus-plugin-content-pages', () => {
         type: 'mdx',
         permalink: '/hello/',
         source: path.posix.join('@site', pluginPath, 'hello', 'index.md'),
+        description: 'Markdown index page',
+        frontMatter: {},
+        title: 'Index',
       },
       {
         type: 'mdx',
         permalink: '/hello/mdxPage',
         source: path.posix.join('@site', pluginPath, 'hello', 'mdxPage.mdx'),
+        description: 'my mdx page',
+        title: 'mdx page',
+        frontMatter: {
+          description: 'my mdx page',
+          title: 'mdx page',
+        },
       },
       {
         type: 'jsx',
@@ -128,6 +149,9 @@ describe('docusaurus-plugin-content-pages', () => {
         type: 'mdx',
         permalink: '/hello/translatedMd',
         source: path.posix.join(frTranslationsPath, 'hello', 'translatedMd.md'),
+        description: 'translated markdown page (fr)',
+        frontMatter: {},
+        title: undefined,
       },
       {
         type: 'jsx',
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
index caa99d00ff..c553d08444 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/index.ts
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   createAbsoluteFilePathMatcher,
   normalizeUrl,
   DEFAULT_PLUGIN_ID,
+  parseMarkdownString,
 } from '@docusaurus/utils';
 import type {
   LoadContext,
@@ -30,9 +31,10 @@ import type {
 import type {Configuration} from 'webpack';
 import admonitions from 'remark-admonitions';
 import {PluginOptionSchema} from './pluginOptionSchema';
+import {validatePageFrontMatter} from './pageFrontMatter';
 
-import type {LoadedContent, Metadata, PagesContentPaths} from './types';
-import type {PluginOptions} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
+import type {LoadedContent, PagesContentPaths} from './types';
+import type {PluginOptions, Metadata} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
 
 export function getContentPathList(contentPaths: PagesContentPaths): string[] {
   return [contentPaths.contentPathLocalized, contentPaths.contentPath];
@@ -111,11 +113,20 @@ export default async function pluginContentPages(
           encodePath(fileToPath(relativeSource)),
         ]);
         if (isMarkdownSource(relativeSource)) {
-          // TODO: missing frontmatter validation/normalization here
+          const content = await fs.readFile(source, 'utf-8');
+          const {
+            frontMatter: unsafeFrontMatter,
+            contentTitle,
+            excerpt,
+          } = parseMarkdownString(content);
+          const frontMatter = validatePageFrontMatter(unsafeFrontMatter);
           return {
             type: 'mdx',
             permalink,
             source: aliasedSourcePath,
+            title: frontMatter.title ?? contentTitle,
+            description: frontMatter.description ?? excerpt,
+            frontMatter,
           };
         } else {
           return {
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/pageFrontMatter.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/pageFrontMatter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef03c3d00d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/pageFrontMatter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+import {
+  Joi,
+  validateFrontMatter,
+  FrontMatterTOCHeadingLevels,
+} from '@docusaurus/utils-validation';
+import type {FrontMatter} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
+
+const PageFrontMatterSchema = Joi.object<FrontMatter>({
+  title: Joi.string(),
+  description: Joi.string(),
+  wrapperClassName: Joi.string(),
+  hide_table_of_contents: Joi.string(),
+  ...FrontMatterTOCHeadingLevels,
+});
+
+export function validatePageFrontMatter(
+  frontMatter: Record<string, unknown>,
+): FrontMatter {
+  return validateFrontMatter(frontMatter, PageFrontMatterSchema);
+}
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
index 47caf52b63..e4991dea76 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/plugin-content-pages.d.ts
@@ -19,22 +19,45 @@ declare module '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages' {
   };
 
   export type Options = Partial<PluginOptions>;
+
+  export type FrontMatter = {
+    readonly title?: string;
+    readonly description?: string;
+    readonly wrapperClassName?: string;
+    readonly hide_table_of_contents?: string;
+    readonly toc_min_heading_level?: number;
+    readonly toc_max_heading_level?: number;
+  };
+
+  export type JSXPageMetadata = {
+    type: 'jsx';
+    permalink: string;
+    source: string;
+  };
+
+  export type MDXPageMetadata = {
+    type: 'mdx';
+    permalink: string;
+    source: string;
+    frontMatter: FrontMatter & Record<string, unknown>;
+    title?: string;
+    description?: string;
+  };
+
+  export type Metadata = JSXPageMetadata | MDXPageMetadata;
 }
 
 declare module '@theme/MDXPage' {
   import type {TOCItem} from '@docusaurus/types';
+  import type {
+    MDXPageMetadata,
+    FrontMatter,
+  } from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
 
   export interface Props {
     readonly content: {
-      readonly frontMatter: {
-        readonly title: string;
-        readonly description: string;
-        readonly wrapperClassName?: string;
-        readonly hide_table_of_contents?: string;
-        readonly toc_min_heading_level?: number;
-        readonly toc_max_heading_level?: number;
-      };
-      readonly metadata: {readonly permalink: string};
+      readonly frontMatter: FrontMatter;
+      readonly metadata: MDXPageMetadata;
       readonly toc: readonly TOCItem[];
       (): JSX.Element;
     };
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/types.ts b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/types.ts
index 70873ac56b..e2833c5692 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/types.ts
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages/src/types.ts
@@ -5,19 +5,7 @@
  * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
  */
 
-export type JSXPageMetadata = {
-  type: 'jsx';
-  permalink: string;
-  source: string;
-};
-
-export type MDXPageMetadata = {
-  type: 'mdx';
-  permalink: string;
-  source: string;
-};
-
-export type Metadata = JSXPageMetadata | MDXPageMetadata;
+import type {Metadata} from '@docusaurus/plugin-content-pages';
 
 export type LoadedContent = Metadata[];
 
diff --git a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/MDXPage/index.tsx b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/MDXPage/index.tsx
index 5cb38278fb..ccd233a092 100644
--- a/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/MDXPage/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/docusaurus-theme-classic/src/theme/MDXPage/index.tsx
@@ -19,18 +19,10 @@ import styles from './styles.module.css';
 function MDXPage(props: Props): JSX.Element {
   const {content: MDXPageContent} = props;
   const {
-    // TODO this frontmatter is not validated/normalized, it's the raw user-provided one. We should expose normalized one too!
-    frontMatter,
-    metadata,
+    metadata: {title, description, permalink, frontMatter},
   } = MDXPageContent;
-
-  const {
-    title,
-    description,
-    wrapperClassName,
-    hide_table_of_contents: hideTableOfContents,
-  } = frontMatter;
-  const {permalink} = metadata;
+  const {wrapperClassName, hide_table_of_contents: hideTableOfContents} =
+    frontMatter;
 
   return (
     <Layout