Wordpress

Content Security Policy on WooCommerce sites is where good intentions go to die. I’ve seen teams turn on a “strict” CSP, feel great for five minutes, then realize checkout is broken, Stripe fields don’t load, product images disappear from the CDN, and marketing starts yelling because GA4 went dark. E-commerce is one of the hardest places to deploy CSP well because a store is never just your code. It’s your theme, plugins, payment providers, tag managers, fraud tools, cookie banners, live chat, analytics, A/B testing, and whatever one-off script someone added during Black Friday. ...

WordPress and Content Security Policy have a complicated relationship. WordPress was built in an era before CSP existed, and it shows. The admin panel injects inline scripts constantly. Plugins do whatever they want. Themes include jQuery from who-knows-where. But here’s the thing: your WordPress site is a target. It powers 43% of the web, which means attackers have spent years finding ways to exploit it. Adding CSP is one of the most impactful things you can do to protect it. ...