diff --git a/src/wp-includes/media.php b/src/wp-includes/media.php
index fd215c800f9dc..9bf36efae81f9 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/media.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/media.php
@@ -6558,14 +6558,7 @@ function wp_add_crossorigin_attributes( string $html ): string {
 	// See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/crossorigin.
 	$cross_origin_tag_attributes = array(
 		'AUDIO'  => array( 'src' => false ),
-		'IMG'    => array(
-			'src'    => false,
-			'srcset' => true,
-		),
-		'LINK'   => array(
-			'href'        => false,
-			'imagesrcset' => true,
-		),
+		'LINK'   => array( 'href' => false ),
 		'SCRIPT' => array( 'src' => false ),
 		'VIDEO'  => array(
 			'src'    => false,
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
index 4fe5723bdc426..3ec4231d5bede 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
@@ -186,28 +186,180 @@ public function test_client_side_processing_enabled_on_localhost() {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * This test must run in a separate process because the output buffer
-	 * callback sends HTTP headers via header(), which would fail in the
-	 * main PHPUnit process where output has already started.
+	 * Verifies that cross-origin elements get crossorigin="anonymous" added.
 	 *
 	 * @ticket 64766
 	 *
 	 * @runInSeparateProcess
 	 * @preserveGlobalState disabled
+	 *
+	 * @dataProvider data_elements_that_should_get_crossorigin
+	 *
+	 * @param string $html HTML input to process.
 	 */
-	public function test_output_buffer_adds_crossorigin_attributes() {
+	public function test_output_buffer_adds_crossorigin( $html ) {
 		$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
 
-		// Start an outer buffer to capture the callback-processed output.
 		ob_start();
 
 		wp_start_cross_origin_isolation_output_buffer();
-		echo '<img src="https://external.example.com/image.jpg" />';
+		echo $html;
 
-		// Flush the inner buffer to trigger the callback, sending processed output to the outer buffer.
 		ob_end_flush();
 		$output = ob_get_clean();
 
 		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'crossorigin="anonymous"', $output );
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Data provider for elements that should receive crossorigin="anonymous".
+	 *
+	 * @return array[]
+	 */
+	public function data_elements_that_should_get_crossorigin() {
+		return array(
+			'cross-origin script'              => array(
+				'<script src="https://external.example.com/script.js"></script>',
+			),
+			'cross-origin audio'               => array(
+				'<audio src="https://external.example.com/audio.mp3"></audio>',
+			),
+			'cross-origin video'               => array(
+				'<video src="https://external.example.com/video.mp4"></video>',
+			),
+			'cross-origin link stylesheet'     => array(
+				'<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://external.example.com/style.css" />',
+			),
+			'cross-origin source inside video' => array(
+				'<video><source src="https://external.example.com/video.mp4" type="video/mp4" /></video>',
+			),
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Verifies that certain elements do not get crossorigin="anonymous" added.
+	 *
+	 * Images are excluded because under Document-Isolation-Policy:
+	 * isolate-and-credentialless, the browser handles cross-origin images
+	 * in credentialless mode without needing explicit CORS headers.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 64766
+	 *
+	 * @runInSeparateProcess
+	 * @preserveGlobalState disabled
+	 *
+	 * @dataProvider data_elements_that_should_not_get_crossorigin
+	 *
+	 * @param string $html HTML input to process.
+	 */
+	public function test_output_buffer_does_not_add_crossorigin( $html ) {
+		$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+
+		ob_start();
+
+		wp_start_cross_origin_isolation_output_buffer();
+		echo $html;
+
+		ob_end_flush();
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( 'crossorigin="anonymous"', $output );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Data provider for elements that should not receive crossorigin="anonymous".
+	 *
+	 * @return array[]
+	 */
+	public function data_elements_that_should_not_get_crossorigin() {
+		return array(
+			'cross-origin img'                        => array(
+				'<img src="https://external.example.com/image.jpg" />',
+			),
+			'cross-origin img with srcset'            => array(
+				'<img src="https://external.example.com/image.jpg" srcset="https://external.example.com/image-2x.jpg 2x" />',
+			),
+			'link with cross-origin imagesrcset only' => array(
+				'<link rel="preload" as="image" imagesrcset="https://external.example.com/image.jpg 1x" href="/local-fallback.jpg" />',
+			),
+			'relative URL script'                     => array(
+				'<script src="/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js"></script>',
+			),
+		);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Same-origin URLs should not get crossorigin="anonymous".
+	 *
+	 * Uses site_url() at runtime since the test domain varies by CI config.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 64766
+	 *
+	 * @runInSeparateProcess
+	 * @preserveGlobalState disabled
+	 */
+	public function test_output_buffer_does_not_add_crossorigin_to_same_origin() {
+		$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+
+		ob_start();
+
+		wp_start_cross_origin_isolation_output_buffer();
+		echo '<script src="' . site_url( '/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js' ) . '"></script>';
+
+		ob_end_flush();
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( 'crossorigin="anonymous"', $output );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Elements that already have a crossorigin attribute should not be modified.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 64766
+	 *
+	 * @runInSeparateProcess
+	 * @preserveGlobalState disabled
+	 */
+	public function test_output_buffer_does_not_override_existing_crossorigin() {
+		$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+
+		ob_start();
+
+		wp_start_cross_origin_isolation_output_buffer();
+		echo '<script src="https://external.example.com/script.js" crossorigin="use-credentials"></script>';
+
+		ob_end_flush();
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( 'crossorigin="use-credentials"', $output, 'Existing crossorigin attribute should not be overridden.' );
+		$this->assertStringNotContainsString( 'crossorigin="anonymous"', $output );
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Multiple tags in the same output should each be handled correctly.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 64766
+	 *
+	 * @runInSeparateProcess
+	 * @preserveGlobalState disabled
+	 */
+	public function test_output_buffer_handles_mixed_tags() {
+		$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
+
+		ob_start();
+
+		wp_start_cross_origin_isolation_output_buffer();
+		echo '<img src="https://external.example.com/image.jpg" />';
+		echo '<script src="https://external.example.com/script.js"></script>';
+		echo '<audio src="https://external.example.com/audio.mp3"></audio>';
+
+		ob_end_flush();
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		// IMG should NOT have crossorigin.
+		$this->assertStringContainsString( '<img src="https://external.example.com/image.jpg" />', $output, 'IMG should not be modified.' );
+
+		// Script and audio should have crossorigin.
+		$this->assertSame( 2, substr_count( $output, 'crossorigin="anonymous"' ), 'Script and audio should both get crossorigin, but not img.' );
+	}
 }