@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import {
   WritableSerializableRouteTreeNode,
 } from './models';
 import type { RenderResult, RenderWorkerData } from './render-worker';
-import { generateRedirectStaticPage } from './utils';
+import { generateRedirectStaticPage, validateStaticRedirectUrl } from './utils';
 
 type PrerenderOptions = NormalizedApplicationBuildOptions['prerenderOptions'];
 type AppShellOptions = NormalizedApplicationBuildOptions['appShellOptions'];
@@ -137,6 +137,14 @@ export async function prerenderPages(
 
   const serializableRouteTreeNodeForPrerender: WritableSerializableRouteTreeNode = [];
   for (const metadata of serializableRouteTreeNode) {
+    if (outputMode === OutputMode.Static) {
+      const invalidStaticRedirect = validateExtractedStaticRedirect(metadata);
+      if (invalidStaticRedirect) {
+        errors.push(invalidStaticRedirect);
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
+
     if (outputMode !== OutputMode.Static && metadata.redirectTo) {
       // Skip redirects if output mode is not static.
       continue;
@@ -345,6 +353,37 @@ async function renderPages(
   };
 }
 
+function validateExtractedStaticRedirect({
+  route,
+  redirectTo,
+  headers,
+}: SerializableRouteTreeNode[number]): string | undefined {
+  if (redirectTo !== undefined) {
+    const invalidRedirectReason = validateStaticRedirectUrl(redirectTo);
+    if (invalidRedirectReason) {
+      return (
+        `Invalid 'redirectTo' for route '${stripLeadingSlash(route)}': ${invalidRedirectReason} ` +
+        `Such values would be embedded verbatim in the generated static redirect page, ` +
+        `which can lead to HTML injection. Percent-encode the value or sanitize the source.`
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  const location = headers?.['Location'] ?? headers?.['location'];
+  if (location !== undefined) {
+    const invalidLocationReason = validateStaticRedirectUrl(location);
+    if (invalidLocationReason) {
+      return (
+        `Invalid 'headers.Location' for route '${stripLeadingSlash(route)}': ${invalidLocationReason} ` +
+        `Such values would be embedded verbatim in the generated static redirect page, ` +
+        `which can lead to HTML injection. Percent-encode the value or sanitize the source.`
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 async function getAllRoutes(
   workspaceRoot: string,
   baseHref: string,
 
@@ -22,26 +22,90 @@ export function isSsrRequestHandler(
   return typeof value === 'function' && '__ng_request_handler__' in value;
 }
 
+const htmlEscapeCharacters: Record<string, string> = {
+  '&': '&amp;',
+  '<': '&lt;',
+  '>': '&gt;',
+  '"': '&quot;',
+  "'": '&#39;',
+};
+
+function escapeHtml(text: string): string {
+  return text.replace(/[&<>"']/g, (character) => htmlEscapeCharacters[character]);
+}
+
+const unsafeStaticRedirectCharacters = /[\\<>"'`]/;
+const allowedStaticRedirectProtocols = new Set(['http:', 'https:']);
+
+function hasUnsafeStaticRedirectCharacters(value: string): boolean {
+  for (let index = 0; index < value.length; index++) {
+    const characterCode = value.charCodeAt(index);
+    if (characterCode <= 0x20 || characterCode === 0x7f) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return unsafeStaticRedirectCharacters.test(value);
+}
+
+export function validateStaticRedirectUrl(url: string): string | undefined {
+  if (hasUnsafeStaticRedirectCharacters(url)) {
+    return (
+      `the value '${url}' contains characters that are not allowed in a statically ` +
+      `emitted URL (control characters, whitespace, backslash, or HTML-significant characters).`
+    );
+  }
+
+  if (url.startsWith('/')) {
+    return url.startsWith('//')
+      ? 'protocol-relative URLs are not supported for statically emitted redirects. ' +
+          'Only HTTP(S) URLs and same-origin absolute paths are supported.'
+      : undefined;
+  }
+
+  const schemeMatch = /^([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9+\-.]*):/.exec(url);
+  if (!schemeMatch) {
+    return (
+      `the value '${url}' is not a valid absolute URL or same-origin absolute path. ` +
+      `Only HTTP(S) URLs and same-origin absolute paths are supported.`
+    );
+  }
+
+  const protocol = `${schemeMatch[1].toLowerCase()}:`;
+  if (!allowedStaticRedirectProtocols.has(protocol)) {
+    return (
+      `the protocol '${protocol}' is not allowed for a statically emitted redirect. ` +
+      `Only HTTP(S) URLs and same-origin absolute paths are supported.`
+    );
+  }
+
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * Generates a static HTML page with a meta refresh tag to redirect the user to a specified URL.
  *
  * This function creates a simple HTML page that performs a redirect using a meta tag.
  * It includes a fallback link in case the meta-refresh doesn't work.
  *
+ * The provided URL is HTML-escaped before being interpolated.
+ *
  * @param url - The URL to which the page should redirect.
  * @returns The HTML content of the static redirect page.
  */
 export function generateRedirectStaticPage(url: string): string {
+  const escapedUrl = escapeHtml(url);
+
   return `
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
   <head>
     <meta charset="utf-8">
     <title>Redirecting</title>
-    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=${url}">
+    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=${escapedUrl}">
   </head>
   <body>
-    <pre>Redirecting to <a href="${url}">${url}</a></pre>
+    <pre>Redirecting to <a href="${escapedUrl}">${escapedUrl}</a></pre>
   </body>
 </html>
 `.trim();
 
@@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ import { Console } from '../console';
 import { AngularAppManifest, getAngularAppManifest } from '../manifest';
 import { AngularBootstrap, isNgModule } from '../utils/ng';
 import { promiseWithAbort } from '../utils/promise';
-import { VALID_REDIRECT_RESPONSE_CODES, isValidRedirectResponseCode } from '../utils/redirect';
+import {
+  VALID_REDIRECT_RESPONSE_CODES,
+  isValidRedirectResponseCode,
+  validateUrlForStaticEmission,
+} from '../utils/redirect';
 import { addTrailingSlash, joinUrlParts, stripLeadingSlash } from '../utils/url';
 import {
   PrerenderFallback,
@@ -525,6 +529,16 @@ function handlePrerenderParamsReplacement(
       );
     }
 
+    const invalidValueReason = validateUrlForStaticEmission(value);
+    if (invalidValueReason) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `The 'getPrerenderParams' function defined for the '${stripLeadingSlash(currentRoutePath)}' route ` +
+          `returned an unsafe value for parameter '${parameterName}': ${invalidValueReason} ` +
+          `Such values would be embedded verbatim in generated URLs and static HTML, ` +
+          `which can lead to HTML injection. Percent-encode the value or sanitize the source.`,
+      );
+    }
+
     return parameterName === '**' ? `/${value}` : value;
   };
 }
 
@@ -23,6 +23,47 @@ export function isValidRedirectResponseCode(code: number): boolean {
   return VALID_REDIRECT_RESPONSE_CODES.has(code);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Characters that must never appear in a statically-emitted redirect target or
+ * in a value substituted into a prerendered URL. They are rejected during route
+ * extraction so they cannot break out of generated HTML contexts or smuggle
+ * markup through the route path.
+ *
+ * - C0 controls and DEL (`\u0000`-`\u001F`, `\u007F`) and whitespace
+ * - Backslash (`\`) - not a valid URL path separator
+ * - HTML-significant characters: `<`, `>`, `"`, `'`, `` ` ``
+ */
+const UNSAFE_URL_CHARACTERS_REGEXP = /[\\<>"'`]/;
+
+function hasUnsafeUrlCharacters(value: string): boolean {
+  for (let index = 0; index < value.length; index++) {
+    const characterCode = value.charCodeAt(index);
+    if (characterCode <= 0x20 || characterCode === 0x7f) {
+      return true;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return UNSAFE_URL_CHARACTERS_REGEXP.test(value);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validates that the given value is safe to embed in a generated redirect page
+ * or to use as a prerendered URL path segment.
+ *
+ * Returns `undefined` when the value is safe, otherwise returns a human-readable
+ * error message describing why it was rejected.
+ */
+export function validateUrlForStaticEmission(value: string): string | undefined {
+  if (hasUnsafeUrlCharacters(value)) {
+    return (
+      `the value '${value}' contains characters that are not allowed in a statically ` +
+      `emitted URL (control characters, whitespace, backslash, or HTML-significant characters).`
+    );
+  }
+
+  return undefined;
+}
+
 /**
  * Creates an HTTP redirect response with a specified location and status code.
  *
 
@@ -102,6 +102,62 @@ describe('extractRoutesAndCreateRouteTree', () => {
       );
     });
 
+    it("should error when 'getPrerenderParams' returns a value containing HTML-significant characters", async () => {
+      setAngularAppTestingManifest(
+        [{ path: 'store/:tenant/legacy/:slug', component: DummyComponent }],
+        [
+          {
+            path: 'store/:tenant/legacy/:slug',
+            renderMode: RenderMode.Prerender,
+            fallback: PrerenderFallback.None,
+            async getPrerenderParams() {
+              return [
+                {
+                  tenant: `x"><img src=x onerror=console.log("XSS_PARENT_IMG")>`,
+                  slug: 'old',
+                },
+              ];
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      );
+
+      const { errors } = await extractRoutesAndCreateRouteTree({
+        url,
+        invokeGetPrerenderParams: true,
+      });
+
+      expect(errors[0]).toContain(
+        `the 'store/:tenant/legacy/:slug' route ` +
+          `returned an unsafe value for parameter 'tenant'`,
+      );
+    });
+
+    it("should error when 'getPrerenderParams' returns a value containing control characters", async () => {
+      setAngularAppTestingManifest(
+        [{ path: 'docs/:id', component: DummyComponent }],
+        [
+          {
+            path: 'docs/:id',
+            renderMode: RenderMode.Prerender,
+            fallback: PrerenderFallback.None,
+            async getPrerenderParams() {
+              return [{ id: 'a b' }];
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      );
+
+      const { errors } = await extractRoutesAndCreateRouteTree({
+        url,
+        invokeGetPrerenderParams: true,
+      });
+
+      expect(errors[0]).toContain(
+        `the 'docs/:id' route returned an unsafe value for parameter 'id'`,
+      );
+    });
+
     it(`should not error when a catch-all route didn't match any Angular route`, async () => {
       setAngularAppTestingManifest(
         [{ path: 'home', component: DummyComponent }],
 
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.dev/license
  */
 
-import { createRedirectResponse } from '../../src/utils/redirect';
+import { createRedirectResponse, validateUrlForStaticEmission } from '../../src/utils/redirect';
 
 describe('Redirect Utils', () => {
   describe('createRedirectResponse', () => {
@@ -64,4 +64,16 @@ describe('Redirect Utils', () => {
       );
     });
   });
+
+  describe('validateUrlForStaticEmission', () => {
+    it('should allow URL-safe values', () => {
+      expect(validateUrlForStaticEmission('docs/page-1?from=ssg&next=/home')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+
+    it('should reject HTML-significant characters', () => {
+      expect(validateUrlForStaticEmission('/docs"><script>alert(1)</script>')).toContain(
+        'contains characters that are not allowed',
+      );
+    });
+  });
 });