diff --git a/docs/design.md b/docs/design.md
index 77b0a18..fb71957 100644
--- a/docs/design.md
+++ b/docs/design.md
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ there.
 - An opaque-origin `srcdoc` document carrying its own `<meta>` CSP
   (`default-src 'none'`; `script-src` the loader's hash plus
   `'wasm-unsafe-eval'`; `style-src`/`img-src`/`font-src`/`media-src
-  blob:` — the asset stylesheet is a `blob:`). CSP
+  blob:` — the asset stylesheet is a `blob:`; `img-src` also `data:`, for
+  the stylesheet's inline SVG backgrounds, which fetch nothing). CSP
   policies compose with the embedder's header policy, so the frame is
   network-dead regardless. `sandbox="allow-scripts allow-forms"`;
   `form-action 'none'`. The loader is a constant; everything variable
diff --git a/e2e/run.ts b/e2e/run.ts
index e4adc75..2fa4efd 100644
--- a/e2e/run.ts
+++ b/e2e/run.ts
@@ -1260,6 +1260,22 @@ const scenarios: Scenario[] = [
       const background = await todoFrame(page).locator("section.todoapp")
         .evaluate((el) => getComputedStyle(el).backgroundColor);
       eq(background, "rgb(255, 255, 255)", "the stylesheet did not apply");
+
+      // The checkboxes are `data:` SVG background images in that stylesheet
+      // (todomvc-app.css `.toggle + label`), which `img-src` must admit. A
+      // computed `background-image` reads the same whether or not CSP let
+      // the image load, so load a `data:` image in the frame and see.
+      const dataImageLoads = await todoFrame(page).locator("body").evaluate(
+        () =>
+          new Promise<boolean>((resolve) => {
+            const img = new Image();
+            img.onload = () => resolve(true);
+            img.onerror = () => resolve(false);
+            img.src =
+              "data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='1' height='1'/>";
+          }),
+      );
+      check(dataImageLoads, "the frame's CSP blocks data: images");
     },
   },
 
diff --git a/web/boot.ts b/web/boot.ts
index 331a936..73c7f31 100644
--- a/web/boot.ts
+++ b/web/boot.ts
@@ -343,7 +343,12 @@ function base64(bytes: ArrayBuffer): string {
  * cannot reach the network at all. Everything it renders comes down the
  * mutation stream or out of a `blob:` the parent minted, which is why
  * `style-src` allows `blob:` (the app bundle's stylesheet is an asset, so
- * `<link href>` resolves to a blob URL).
+ * `<link href>` resolves to a blob URL). `img-src` also allows `data:`: the
+ * bytes of a `data:` URL are inline in whatever names it — here, the
+ * stylesheet's `background-image` SVGs — so nothing leaves the frame. An
+ * `<img src="data:...">` from the app is still refused, by the receiver
+ * policy (web/policy.ts: URL-kind attributes take asset handles only), not
+ * by this CSP.
  *
  * The hash covers the exact text between the tags INCLUDING the two
  * newlines, because that is what the browser hashes.
@@ -358,7 +363,7 @@ async function frameSrcdoc(frameJs: string): Promise<string> {
     "default-src 'none'",
     `script-src 'sha256-${base64(digest)}' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'`,
     "style-src blob:",
-    "img-src blob:",
+    "img-src blob: data:",
     "font-src blob:",
     "media-src blob:",
     "form-action 'none'",