diff --git a/src/wp-includes/media-template.php b/src/wp-includes/media-template.php
index 20f485b5416e5..460cf3b3020e5 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/media-template.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/media-template.php
@@ -1619,11 +1619,17 @@ function wp_print_media_templates() {
 			 * The crossorigin attribute is added unconditionally to all relevant
 			 * media tags to ensure cross-origin isolation works regardless of
 			 * the final URL value at render time.
+			 *
+			 * IMG is intentionally excluded, matching wp_add_crossorigin_attributes().
+			 * Under Document-Isolation-Policy: isolate-and-credentialless the browser
+			 * loads cross-origin images in credentialless mode without CORS headers,
+			 * so adding crossorigin="anonymous" would force a CORS request and break
+			 * previews of images served without Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers.
 			 */
 			$template_processor = new WP_HTML_Tag_Processor( $script_processor->get_modifiable_text() );
 			while ( $template_processor->next_tag() ) {
 				if (
-					in_array( $template_processor->get_tag(), array( 'AUDIO', 'IMG', 'VIDEO' ), true )
+					in_array( $template_processor->get_tag(), array( 'AUDIO', 'VIDEO' ), true )
 					&& ! is_string( $template_processor->get_attribute( 'crossorigin' ) )
 				) {
 					$template_processor->set_attribute( 'crossorigin', 'anonymous' );
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
index 1275ed21c3bc8..b1c40e8596780 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/media/wpCrossOriginIsolation.php
@@ -538,4 +538,30 @@ public function test_output_buffer_handles_mixed_tags() {
 		// Script and audio should have crossorigin.
 		$this->assertSame( 2, substr_count( $output, 'crossorigin="anonymous"' ), 'Script and audio should both get crossorigin, but not img.' );
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * IMG tags in the media manager templates must not receive
+	 * crossorigin="anonymous", matching wp_add_crossorigin_attributes().
+	 *
+	 * Adding the attribute forces a CORS request that breaks previews of
+	 * images served without Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers, such as
+	 * media offloaded to a CDN.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 65673
+	 *
+	 * @covers ::wp_print_media_templates
+	 */
+	public function test_print_media_templates_does_not_add_crossorigin_to_img() {
+		require_once ABSPATH . WPINC . '/media-template.php';
+
+		add_filter( 'wp_client_side_media_processing_enabled', '__return_true' );
+
+		ob_start();
+		wp_print_media_templates();
+		$output = ob_get_clean();
+
+		$this->assertMatchesRegularExpression( '/<img\b/i', $output, 'Expected the media templates to contain IMG tags.' );
+		$this->assertDoesNotMatchRegularExpression( '/<img\b[^>]*\bcrossorigin\b/i', $output, 'IMG tags in the media templates must not receive a crossorigin attribute.' );
+		$this->assertMatchesRegularExpression( '/<(?:audio|video)\b[^>]*crossorigin="anonymous"/i', $output, 'AUDIO and VIDEO tags in the media templates should still receive crossorigin="anonymous".' );
+	}
 }