diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 58d73ee798..7d30f99fb8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 * (types) [\#11004](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/11004) Added mutable versions of many of the sdk.Dec types operations.  This improves performance when used by avoiding reallocating a new bigint for each operation.
 * (x/auth) [\#10880](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/10880) Added a new query to the tx query service that returns a block with transactions fully decoded.
 * (types) [\#11200](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/11200) Added `Min()` and `Max()` operations on sdk.Coins.
+* (gov) [\#11287](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/11287) Fix error message when no flags are provided while executing `submit-legacy-proposal` transaction.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/x/gov/client/cli/parse.go b/x/gov/client/cli/parse.go
index 306b4b10dd..91736f9853 100644
--- a/x/gov/client/cli/parse.go
+++ b/x/gov/client/cli/parse.go
@@ -19,17 +19,41 @@ type legacyProposal struct {
 	Deposit     string
 }
 
+func (p legacyProposal) validate() error {
+	if p.Type == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("proposal type is required")
+	}
+
+	if p.Title == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("proposal title is required")
+	}
+
+	if p.Description == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("proposal description is required")
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func parseSubmitLegacyProposalFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) (*legacyProposal, error) {
 	proposal := &legacyProposal{}
 	proposalFile, _ := fs.GetString(FlagProposal)
 
 	if proposalFile == "" {
 		proposalType, _ := fs.GetString(FlagProposalType)
+		title, _ := fs.GetString(FlagTitle)
+		description, _ := fs.GetString(FlagDescription)
+		if proposalType == "" && title == "" && description == "" {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("one of the --proposal or (--title, --description and --type) flags are required")
+		}
 
 		proposal.Title, _ = fs.GetString(FlagTitle)
 		proposal.Description, _ = fs.GetString(FlagDescription)
 		proposal.Type = govutils.NormalizeProposalType(proposalType)
 		proposal.Deposit, _ = fs.GetString(FlagDeposit)
+		if err := proposal.validate(); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
 		return proposal, nil
 	}
 
@@ -49,6 +73,10 @@ func parseSubmitLegacyProposalFlags(fs *pflag.FlagSet) (*legacyProposal, error)
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	if err := proposal.validate(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
 	return proposal, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/x/gov/client/cli/tx.go b/x/gov/client/cli/tx.go
index 17c3db75e4..d23d717fd9 100644
--- a/x/gov/client/cli/tx.go
+++ b/x/gov/client/cli/tx.go
@@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ const (
 	// Deprecated: only used for v1beta1 legacy proposals.
 	FlagProposalType = "type"
 	// Deprecated: only used for v1beta1 legacy proposals.
-	FlagDeposit      = "deposit"
-	flagVoter        = "voter"
-	flagDepositor    = "depositor"
-	flagStatus       = "status"
+	FlagDeposit   = "deposit"
+	flagVoter     = "voter"
+	flagDepositor = "depositor"
+	flagStatus    = "status"
 	// Deprecated: only used for v1beta1 legacy proposals.
 	FlagProposal = "proposal"
 )