diff --git a/detekt-core/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProvider.kt b/detekt-core/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProvider.kt
index bb48079f18ac..05ee388ab229 100644
--- a/detekt-core/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProvider.kt
+++ b/detekt-core/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProvider.kt
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ package io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.core.tooling
 
 import io.github.detekt.tooling.api.DefaultConfigurationProvider
 import io.github.detekt.tooling.api.spec.ProcessingSpec
-import io.github.detekt.tooling.internal.getSafeResourceAsStream
-import io.github.detekt.tooling.internal.openSafeStream
 import io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.api.Config
 import io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.core.config.YamlConfig
+import io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.core.settings.ExtensionFacade
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream
+import java.io.InputStream
 import java.nio.file.Files
 import java.nio.file.Path
 import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption
@@ -20,15 +22,32 @@ class DefaultConfigProvider : DefaultConfigurationProvider {
     override fun get(): Config = spec.getDefaultConfiguration()
 
     override fun copy(targetLocation: Path) {
-        val configUrl = javaClass.getResource(DEFAULT_CONFIG_RESOURCES_PATH)!!
-        Files.copy(configUrl.openSafeStream(), targetLocation, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING)
+        Files.copy(configInputStream(spec), targetLocation, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING)
     }
 }
 
-fun ProcessingSpec.getDefaultConfiguration(): Config {
-    return requireNotNull(javaClass.getSafeResourceAsStream(DEFAULT_CONFIG_RESOURCES_PATH))
-        .reader()
-        .use(YamlConfig::load)
+private fun configInputStream(spec: ProcessingSpec): InputStream {
+    val outputStream = ByteArrayOutputStream()
+
+    requireNotNull(spec.javaClass.getResourceAsStream("/default-detekt-config.yml"))
+        .use { it.copyTo(outputStream) }
+
+    ExtensionFacade(spec.extensionsSpec).pluginLoader
+        .getResourcesAsStream("config/config.yml")
+        .forEach { inputStream ->
+            outputStream.bufferedWriter().append('\n').flush()
+            inputStream.use { it.copyTo(outputStream) }
+        }
+
+    return ByteArrayInputStream(outputStream.toByteArray())
 }
 
-private const val DEFAULT_CONFIG_RESOURCES_PATH = "/default-detekt-config.yml"
+private fun ClassLoader.getResourcesAsStream(name: String): Sequence<InputStream> {
+    return getResources(name)
+        .asSequence()
+        .map { it.openStream() }
+}
+
+fun ProcessingSpec.getDefaultConfiguration(): Config {
+    return YamlConfig.load(configInputStream(this).reader())
+}
diff --git a/detekt-core/src/test/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProviderTest.kt b/detekt-core/src/test/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProviderTest.kt
index e9d032c53aec..c59c0cc4e6bf 100644
--- a/detekt-core/src/test/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProviderTest.kt
+++ b/detekt-core/src/test/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/tooling/DefaultConfigProviderTest.kt
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.core.createNullLoggingSpec
 import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat
 import org.spekframework.spek2.Spek
 import org.spekframework.spek2.style.specification.describe
+import java.nio.file.Files
 
 internal class DefaultConfigProviderSpec : Spek({
-
-    describe("defaultConfigProvider") {
+    describe("defaultConfigProvider without plugins") {
         val spec by memoized {
             createNullLoggingSpec {}
         }
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ internal class DefaultConfigProviderSpec : Spek({
 
             assertThat(config.parentPath).isNull()
             assertThat(config.subConfig("build").valueOrNull<Int>("maxIssues")).isEqualTo(0)
+            assertThat(config.valueOrNull<Any>("sample")).isNull()
         }
 
         it("copy") {
@@ -29,4 +30,41 @@ internal class DefaultConfigProviderSpec : Spek({
                 .hasSameTextualContentAs(resourceAsPath("default-detekt-config.yml"))
         }
     }
+
+    describe("defaultConfigProvider without plugins") {
+        val spec by memoized {
+            createNullLoggingSpec {
+                extensions {
+                    fromPaths { listOf(resourceAsPath("sample-rule-set.jar")) }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        it("get") {
+            val config = DefaultConfigProvider().apply { init(spec) }.get()
+
+            assertThat(config.parentPath).isNull()
+            assertThat(config.subConfig("build").valueOrNull<Int>("maxIssues")).isEqualTo(0)
+            assertThat(config.valueOrNull<Any>("sample")).isNotNull()
+        }
+
+        it("copy") {
+            val path = createTempFileForTest("test", "test")
+            DefaultConfigProvider().apply { init(spec) }.copy(path)
+
+            val actual = String(Files.readAllBytes(path), Charsets.UTF_8)
+            val expected = String(Files.readAllBytes(resourceAsPath("default-detekt-config.yml")), Charsets.UTF_8) +
+                """
+                    |
+                    |sample:
+                    |  TooManyFunctions:
+                    |    active: true
+                    |  TooManyFunctionsTwo:
+                    |    active: true
+                    |
+                """.trimMargin()
+
+            assertThat(actual).isEqualTo(expected)
+        }
+    }
 })
diff --git a/detekt-core/src/test/resources/sample-rule-set.jar b/detekt-core/src/test/resources/sample-rule-set.jar
index 335faf48280a..4a0859cbd439 100644
Binary files a/detekt-core/src/test/resources/sample-rule-set.jar and b/detekt-core/src/test/resources/sample-rule-set.jar differ
diff --git a/detekt-sample-extensions/src/main/resources/config/config.yml b/detekt-sample-extensions/src/main/resources/config/config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7b42d0fe2884
--- /dev/null
+++ b/detekt-sample-extensions/src/main/resources/config/config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+sample:
+  TooManyFunctions:
+    active: true
+  TooManyFunctionsTwo:
+    active: true