diff --git a/packages/config/src/options.js b/packages/config/src/options.js
index e5da7d33d6..fb8d5dd85d 100644
--- a/packages/config/src/options.js
+++ b/packages/config/src/options.js
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import fs from 'fs'
 import defaultsDeep from 'lodash/defaultsDeep'
 import defaults from 'lodash/defaults'
 import pick from 'lodash/pick'
-import isObject from 'lodash/isObject'
 import uniq from 'lodash/uniq'
 import consola from 'consola'
 import { guardDir, isNonEmptyString, isPureObject, isUrl, getMainModule } from '@nuxt/utils'
@@ -179,16 +178,14 @@ export function getNuxtConfig(_options) {
   }
 
   // Apply default hash to CSP option
-  const { csp } = options.render
-
-  const cspDefaults = {
-    hashAlgorithm: 'sha256',
-    allowedSources: undefined,
-    policies: undefined,
-    reportOnly: options.debug
-  }
-  if (csp) {
-    options.render.csp = defaults(isObject(csp) ? csp : {}, cspDefaults)
+  if (options.render.csp) {
+    options.render.csp = defaults({}, options.render.csp, {
+      hashAlgorithm: 'sha256',
+      allowedSources: undefined,
+      policies: undefined,
+      addMeta: Boolean(options._generate),
+      reportOnly: options.debug
+    })
   }
 
   // cssSourceMap
diff --git a/packages/config/test/options.test.js b/packages/config/test/options.test.js
index dc60fd2062..e744db32ea 100644
--- a/packages/config/test/options.test.js
+++ b/packages/config/test/options.test.js
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ describe('config: options', () => {
     const { render: { csp } } = getNuxtConfig({ render: { csp: { allowedSources: true, test: true } } })
     expect(csp).toEqual({
       hashAlgorithm: 'sha256',
+      addMeta: false,
       allowedSources: true,
       policies: undefined,
       reportOnly: false,
diff --git a/packages/vue-renderer/src/renderer.js b/packages/vue-renderer/src/renderer.js
index 6e41ef04ea..898c5a7f2d 100644
--- a/packages/vue-renderer/src/renderer.js
+++ b/packages/vue-renderer/src/renderer.js
@@ -407,21 +407,26 @@ export default class VueRenderer {
     APP += `<script>${serializedSession}</script>`
 
     // Calculate CSP hashes
+    const { csp } = this.context.options.render
     const cspScriptSrcHashes = []
-    const csp = this.context.options.render.csp
-    const containsUnsafeInlineScriptSrc = csp && csp.policies && csp.policies['script-src'] && csp.policies['script-src'].includes(`'unsafe-inline'`)
+    if (csp) {
+      // Only add the hash if 'unsafe-inline' rule isn't present to avoid conflicts (#5387)
+      const containsUnsafeInlineScriptSrc = csp.policies && csp.policies['script-src'] && csp.policies['script-src'].includes(`'unsafe-inline'`)
+      if (!containsUnsafeInlineScriptSrc) {
+        const hash = crypto.createHash(csp.hashAlgorithm)
+        hash.update(serializedSession)
+        cspScriptSrcHashes.push(`'${csp.hashAlgorithm}-${hash.digest('base64')}'`)
+      }
 
-    // Only add the hash if 'unsafe-inline' rule isn't present to avoid conflicts (#5387)
-    if (csp && !containsUnsafeInlineScriptSrc) {
-      const { hashAlgorithm } = this.context.options.render.csp
-      const hash = crypto.createHash(hashAlgorithm)
-      hash.update(serializedSession)
-      cspScriptSrcHashes.push(`'${hashAlgorithm}-${hash.digest('base64')}'`)
+      // Call ssr:csp hook
+      await this.context.nuxt.callHook('vue-renderer:ssr:csp', cspScriptSrcHashes)
+
+      // Add csp meta tags
+      if (csp.addMeta) {
+        HEAD += `<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="script-src ${cspScriptSrcHashes.join()}">`
+      }
     }
 
-    // Call ssr:csp hook
-    await this.context.nuxt.callHook('vue-renderer:ssr:csp', cspScriptSrcHashes)
-
     // Prepend scripts
     APP += this.renderScripts(context)
     APP += m.script.text({ body: true })