# Content-Security-Policy: script-src directive — Unsafe eval expressions

> The 'unsafe-eval' source expression controls several script execution methods that create code from strings.

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The 'unsafe-eval' source expression controls several script execution methods that create code from strings. If a page has a CSP header and 'unsafe-eval' isn't specified with the script-src directive, the following methods are blocked and won't have any effect

{{jsxref("Global_Objects/eval", "eval()")}} {{jsxref("Function", "Function()")}} When passing a string literal like to methods like: setTimeout("alert(\"Hello World!\");", 500); {{domxref("Window.setTimeout", "setTimeout()")}} {{domxref("Window.setInterval", "setInterval()")}} {{domxref("Window.setImmediate", "setImmediate()")}}

window.execScript() {{non-standard_inline}} (IE &lt; 11 only)

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