Content Security Policy Builder

Easily integrate Content-Security-Policy headers into your web application, either from a JSON configuration file, or programatically.

CSP Builder was created by Paragon Initiative Enterprises as part of our effort to encourage better application security practices.

Check out our other open source projects too.

Build a Content Security Policy header from a JSON configuration file

<?php

use \ParagonIE\CSPBuilder\CSPBuilder;

$csp = CSPBuilder::fromFile('/path/to/source.json');
$csp->sendCSPHeader();

Example

{
    "report-only": false,
    "report-uri": "/csp_violation_reporting_endpoint",
    "base-uri": [],
    "default-src": [],    
    "child-src": {
        "allow": [
            "https://www.youtube.com",
            "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com"
        ],
        "self": false
    },
    "connect-uri": [],
    "font-uri": {
        "self": true
    },
    "form-action": {
        "allow": [
            "https://example.com"
        ],
        "self": true
    },
    "frame-ancestors": [],
    "img-src": {
        "self": true,
        "data": true
    },
    "media-src": [],
    "object-src": [],
    "plugin-types": [],
    "script-src": {
        "allow": [
            "https://www.google-analytics.com"
        ],
        "self": true,
        "unsafe-inline": false,
        "unsafe-eval": false
    },
    "style-src": {
        "self": true
    },
    "upgrade-insecure-requests": true
}

Build a Content Security Policy, programmatically

<?php

use \ParagonIE\CSPBuilder\CSPBuilder;

$csp = CSPBuilder::fromFile('/path/to/source.json');

// Let's add a nonce for inline JS
$nonce = $csp->nonce('script-src');
$body .= "<script nonce={$nonce}>";
    $body .= $desiredJavascriptCode;
$body .= "</script>";

// Let's add a hash to the CSP header for $someScript
$hash = $csp->hash('script-src', $someScript, 'sha256');

// Add a new source domain to the whitelist
$csp->addSource('image', 'https://ytimg.com');

// Let's turn on HTTPS enforcement
$csp->addDirective('upgrade-insecure-requests', true);

$csp->sendCSPHeader();

Note that many of these methods can be chained together:

$csp = CSPBuilder::fromFile('/path/to/source.json');
$csp->addSource('image', 'https://ytimg.com')
    ->addSource('frame', 'https://youtube.com')
    ->addDirective('upgrade-insecure-requests', true)
    ->sendCSPHeader();

• addSource()
• addDirective()
• disableOldBrowserSupport()
• enableOldBrowserSupport()
• hash()
• setDirective()

Inject a CSP header into a PSR-7 message

Instead of invoking sendCSPHeader(), you can instead inject the headers into your PSR-7 message object by calling it like so:

$csp->injectCSPHeader($yourMessageHere);

Save a CSP header for configuring Apache/nginx

Instead of calling sendCSPHeader() on every request, you can build the CSP once and save it to a snippet for including in your server configuration:

$policy = CSPBuilder::fromFile('/path/to/source.json');
$policy->saveSnippet(
    '/etc/nginx/snippets/my-csp.conf',
    CSPBuilder::FORMAT_NGINX
);

Make sure you reload your webserver afterwards.