diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ccfef70786b..850cc1bcffb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ To learn more about active deprecations, we recommend checking [GitHub Discussio
 ### New
 
 -**General**: Add scaleTargetRef exists check in webhook and revise some variable name ([#6350](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/6350))
+- **General**: Introduce new NSQ scaler ([#3281](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/3281))
 
 #### Experimental
 
diff --git a/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_types.go b/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_types.go
index 6cc6e97add3..e10982c4e69 100644
--- a/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_types.go
+++ b/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_types.go
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ func (so *ScaledObject) CheckScaleTargetRefIfExist(ctx context.Context) error {
 	gvkString := soGvkr.GVKString()
 	unstruct := &unstructured.Unstructured{}
 	unstruct.SetGroupVersionKind(soGvkr.GroupVersionKind())
-	if err := kc.Get(ctx, client.ObjectKey{Namespace: so.Namespace, Name: so.Spec.ScaleTargetRef.Name}, unstruct); err != nil {
+	if err := getFromCacheOrDirect(ctx, client.ObjectKey{Namespace: so.Namespace, Name: so.Spec.ScaleTargetRef.Name}, unstruct); err != nil {
 		// resource doesn't exist
 		scaledobjectlog.Error(err, message.ScaleTargetNotFoundMsg, "resource", gvkString, "name", so.Spec.ScaleTargetRef.Name)
 		return err
diff --git a/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_webhook_test.go b/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_webhook_test.go
index 75edace5250..04d10695116 100644
--- a/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_webhook_test.go
+++ b/apis/keda/v1alpha1/scaledobject_webhook_test.go
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ var _ = It("shouldn't validate the so creation with cpu and memory when stateful
 	}).Should(HaveOccurred())
 })
 
-var _ = It("shouldn't validate the so creation without cpu and memory when custom resources without real StatefulSet", func() {
+var _ = It("shouldn't validate the so creation without cpu and memory when custom resources and real StatefulSet not found", func() {
 
 	namespaceName := "crd-not-resources"
 	namespace := createNamespace(namespaceName)