Use Tag Manager with a Content Security Policy

Content Security Policy (CSP) is a widely supported Web security standard intended to prevent certain types of injection-based attacks by giving developers control over the resources loaded by their applications. Use this guide to understand how to deploy Google Tag Manager on sites that use a CSP.

Note: To ensure the CSP behaves as expected, it is best to use the report-uri and/or report-to directives to get reports of policy violations.

Enable the container tag to use CSP

To use Google Tag Manager on a page with a CSP, the CSP must allow for the execution of your Tag Manager container code. This code is built as inline JavaScript code that injects the gtm.js script. There are several ways to do this, such as the use of a nonce or a hash. The recommended method is to use a nonce, which should be an unguessable, random value that the server generates individually for each response. Supply the nonce value in the Content-Security- Policy script-src directive:

Content-Security-Policy:
script-src 'nonce-{SERVER-GENERATED-NONCE}';
img-src www.googletagmanager.com;
connect-src www.googletagmanager.com

Then use the nonce-aware version of the inline Tag Manager container code. Set the nonce attribute on the inline script element to this same value:

<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<script nonce='{SERVER-GENERATED-NONCE}'>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=
'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;var n=d.querySelector('[nonce]');
n&&j.setAttribute('nonce',n.nonce||n.getAttribute('nonce'));f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);
})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-XXXXXX');</script>
<!-- End Google Tag Manager -->

Tag Manager will then propagate the nonce to any scripts that it adds to the page.

There are other approaches to enabling the execution of an inline script, such as supplying the hash of the inline script in the CSP.

If the recommended nonce or hash approaches are not feasible, it is possible to enable the Tag Manager inline script by adding the 'unsafe-inline' directive to the CSP's script-src section.

The use of 'unsafe-inline' is discouraged. You should carefully consider the security ramifications of adding this directive to the CSP before using this approach.

The following directives are needed in the CSP to use this approach:

script-src 'unsafe-inline' https://www.googletagmanager.com
img-src www.googletagmanager.com
connect-src www.googletagmanager.com

Note: Certain tags load content from or make requests to other origins, so they require the use of additional CSP directives to function properly.

Custom JavaScript Variables

Due to how Custom JavaScript variables are implemented, they will evaluate to undefined in the presence of a CSP unless the 'unsafe-eval' directive is given in the script-src section of the CSP.

To avoid potential security vulnerabilities, use `'unsafe-eval'` only when absolutely necessary.

script-src 'unsafe-eval'

Note: Custom Templates are the recommended alternative to Custom JavaScript variables. They can be used to create custom tags and variables that do not require the use of 'unsafe-eval'.

Preview Mode

In order to use Google Tag Manager's Preview Mode, the CSP must include the following directives:

script-src https://googletagmanager.com https://tagmanager.google.com
style-src https://googletagmanager.com https://tagmanager.google.com https://fonts.googleapis.com
img-src https://googletagmanager.com https://ssl.gstatic.com https://www.gstatic.com
font-src https://fonts.gstatic.com data:

Note: If the page is served over a non-secure connection, the script-src directive should instead include the non-secure http://googletagmanager.com http://tagmanager.google.com URL.

Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics)

To use the Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics) tag, the CSP must include the following directives:

script-src  https://*.googletagmanager.com
img-src     https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.googletagmanager.com
connect-src https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.analytics.google.com https://*.googletagmanager.com

For Google Analytics 4 (Google Analytics) deployments using Google Signals, the CSP must include the following directives:

script-src  https://*.googletagmanager.com
img-src     https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.analytics.google.com https://*.googletagmanager.com
             https://*.g.doubleclick.net https://*.google.com https://*.google.<TLD>
connect-src https://*.google-analytics.com https://*.analytics.google.com
             https://*.googletagmanager.com https://*.g.doubleclick.net https://*.google.com https://*.google.<TLD>
frame-src   https://td.doubleclick.net

Note: Each Google top-level domain (TLD) must be specified individually, since CSP syntax does not allow the use of wildcards on the right side of the hostname. A list of all supported Google TLDs is available at: https://www.google.com/supported_domains.

Universal Analytics (Google Analytics)

To use the Universal Analytics (Google Analytics) tag, the CSP must include the following directives:

script-src https://www.google-analytics.com https://ssl.google-analytics.com
img-src https://www.google-analytics.com
connect-src https://www.google-analytics.com

Note: If the page is served over a non-secure connection, the script-src directive does not need to include https://ssl.google-analytics.com.

Google Ads conversions

To use a Google Ads conversion tag, the CSP must include the following directives:

For secure connections:

script-src https://www.googleadservices.com https://www.google.com https://www.googletagmanager.com
img-src https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.google.com https://google.com https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com
frame-src https://www.googletagmanager.com https://td.doubleclick.net
connect-src https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com

For non-secure connections:

script-src www.googleadservices.com www.google.com www.googletagmanager.com
img-src googleads.g.doubleclick.net www.google.com google.com pagead2.googlesyndication.com
connect-src pagead2.googlesyndication.com

Google Ads remarketing

To use a Google Ads remarketing tag, the CSP must include the following directives.

For secure connections:

script-src https://www.googleadservices.com https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net https://www.google.com
img-src https://www.google.com https://google.com
frame-src https://td.doubleclick.net

For non-secure connections:

script-src www.googleadservices.com googleads.g.doubleclick.net www.google.com
img-src www.google.com google.com
frame-src td.doubleclick.net

Google Ads User Data Beacon

To use the Google Ads user data beacons when running in secure contexts, the CSP must include the following directives:

script-src https://www.googletagmanager.com
frame-src https://www.googletagmanager.com

The Google ads user data beacon does not run in insecure contexts, so CSP configuration in those cases is not applicable.

Floodlight

Floodlight users can enable CSPs using the following configurations. Replace <FLOODLIGHT-CONFIG-ID> values with either a specific Floodlight advertiser ID, or * to allow any advertiser ID:

For all users:

img-src https://<FLOODLIGHT-CONFIG-ID>.fls.doubleclick.net
frame-src https://td.doubleclick.net

For "custom scripts" beacons in Tag Manager:

frame-src https://<FLOODLIGHT-CONFIG-ID>.fls.doubleclick.net

For image tags:

img-src https://ad.doubleclick.net

For consent mode:

img-src https://ade.googlesyndication.com