diff --git a/.changeset/bright-pots-carry.md b/.changeset/bright-pots-carry.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f34a0186f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/bright-pots-carry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+"@pnpm/plugin-commands-publishing": patch
+"pnpm": patch
+---
+
+`pnpm publish` should be able to publish from a local tarball [#7950](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/issues/7950).
diff --git a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/src/publish.ts b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/src/publish.ts
index 9fad16460f..6825cb8a33 100644
--- a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/src/publish.ts
+++ b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/src/publish.ts
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Do you want to continue?`,
   }
 
   if (dirInParams?.endsWith('.tgz')) {
-    const { status } = runNpm(opts.npmPath, ['publish', ...args])
+    const { status } = runNpm(opts.npmPath, ['publish', dirInParams, ...args])
     return { exitCode: status ?? 0 }
   }
   const dir = dirInParams ?? opts.dir ?? process.cwd()
diff --git a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/publish.ts b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/publish.ts
index 8a1ca27378..30c893a1c4 100644
--- a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/publish.ts
+++ b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/publish.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT } from '@pnpm/registry-mock'
 import { createTestIpcServer } from '@pnpm/test-ipc-server'
 import crossSpawn from 'cross-spawn'
 import { sync as writeYamlFile } from 'write-yaml-file'
-import { DEFAULT_OPTS } from './utils'
+import { DEFAULT_OPTS, checkPkgExists } from './utils'
 
 const skipOnWindowsCI = isCI && isWindows() ? test.skip : test
 
@@ -912,3 +912,29 @@ test('publish: use bearer token helper for authentication', async () => {
     gitChecks: false,
   }, [])
 })
+
+test('publish from a tarball', async () => {
+  const pkg = {
+    name: 'test-publish-tarball',
+    version: '0.0.0',
+  }
+  prepare(pkg)
+
+  await pack.handler({
+    ...DEFAULT_OPTS,
+    argv: { original: [] },
+    dir: process.cwd(),
+    extraBinPaths: [],
+  })
+
+  fs.rmSync('package.json')
+
+  const tarballName = `${pkg.name}-${pkg.version}.tgz`
+  await publish.handler({
+    ...DEFAULT_OPTS,
+    argv: { original: ['publish', tarballName, ...CREDENTIALS] },
+    dir: process.cwd(),
+  }, [tarballName])
+
+  await checkPkgExists(pkg.name, pkg.version)
+})
diff --git a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/recursivePublish.ts b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/recursivePublish.ts
index 22584460a5..f4b039fbc1 100644
--- a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/recursivePublish.ts
+++ b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/recursivePublish.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import { type ProjectManifest } from '@pnpm/types'
 import execa from 'execa'
 import crossSpawn from 'cross-spawn'
 import loadJsonFile from 'load-json-file'
-import { DEFAULT_OPTS } from './utils'
+import { DEFAULT_OPTS, checkPkgExists } from './utils'
 
 const CREDENTIALS = `\
 registry=http://localhost:${REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT}/
@@ -97,16 +97,8 @@ test('recursive publish', async () => {
     recursive: true,
   }, [])
 
-  {
-    const { stdout } = await execa('npm', ['view', pkg1.name, 'versions', '--registry', `http://localhost:${REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT}`, '--json'])
-    const output = JSON.parse(stdout.toString())
-    expect(Array.isArray(output) ? output[0] : output).toStrictEqual(pkg1.version)
-  }
-  {
-    const { stdout } = await execa('npm', ['view', pkg2.name, 'versions', '--registry', `http://localhost:${REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT}`, '--json'])
-    const output = JSON.parse(stdout.toString())
-    expect(Array.isArray(output) ? output[0] : output).toStrictEqual(pkg2.version)
-  }
+  await checkPkgExists(pkg1.name, pkg1.version)
+  await checkPkgExists(pkg2.name, pkg2.version)
 
   projects[pkg1.name].writePackageJson({ ...pkg1, version: '2.0.0' })
 
diff --git a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/utils/index.ts b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/utils/index.ts
index 1ec75e1d85..fed4cce537 100644
--- a/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/utils/index.ts
+++ b/releasing/plugin-commands-publishing/test/utils/index.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT } from '@pnpm/registry-mock'
+import execa from 'execa'
 
 const REGISTRY = `http://localhost:${REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT}`
 
@@ -47,3 +48,9 @@ export const DEFAULT_OPTS = {
   workspaceConcurrency: 4,
   virtualStoreDirMaxLength: 120,
 }
+
+export async function checkPkgExists (packageName: string, expectedVersion: string): Promise<void> {
+  const { stdout } = await execa('npm', ['view', packageName, 'versions', '--registry', `http://localhost:${REGISTRY_MOCK_PORT}`, '--json'])
+  const output = JSON.parse(stdout.toString())
+  expect(Array.isArray(output) ? output[0] : output).toStrictEqual(expectedVersion)
+}