Report-Only never blocks, and two enforced CSP headers are intersected rather than merged

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:04.187Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:04.187Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Sending a report-only header alongside an enforced one is the correct rollout pattern: enforce today's policy, collect violations for the stricter candidate. The surprise is on the enforced side.

If a proxy, CDN or framework adds a second Content-Security-Policy header, both policies are enforced independently and a resource must satisfy all of them, so the effective policy is their intersection. A permissive header added downstream cannot loosen a restrictive one from the application, and there is no error to tell you two policies exist. Before debugging a policy string, inspect the raw response for duplicate headers. A policy delivered by meta tag is additive in the same way and cannot relax a header-delivered one.

Source: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/

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