diff --git a/apps/server/src/common/helpers/prosemirror/html-embed.spec.ts b/apps/server/src/common/helpers/prosemirror/html-embed.spec.ts
index 1a044a4e..ec215c87 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/common/helpers/prosemirror/html-embed.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/common/helpers/prosemirror/html-embed.spec.ts
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ describe('canAuthorHtmlEmbed', () => {
 });
 
 // Replicates the write-path decision used by every non-admin persistence guard
-// (collab store, single import, zip import, duplication, transclusion unsync):
+// (page create, collab store, single import, zip import, duplication,
+// transclusion unsync):
 //   if !canAuthorHtmlEmbed(role) && hasHtmlEmbedNode(json) -> strip, else keep.
 const applyAdminGate = (json: any, role: string | null | undefined) => {
   if (!canAuthorHtmlEmbed(role) && hasHtmlEmbedNode(json)) {
@@ -187,6 +188,55 @@ describe('admin-gate write-path decision (duplication / import / unsync)', () =>
   });
 });
 
+// PageService.create() now applies exactly `applyAdminGate` (above) to the
+// parsed ProseMirror JSON BEFORE deriving content/textContent/ydoc and calling
+// insertPage. The create controller only requires space Edit, so without this a
+// regular member could POST a doc (json, or the markdown/html
+// <!--html-embed:BASE64--> forms that parse to the same node) containing an
+// htmlEmbed and store XSS for every reader. These cases pin the create-path
+// decision: non-admin -> stripped, admin/owner -> kept.
+describe('admin-gate write-path decision (page create)', () => {
+  const docWithEmbed = {
+    type: 'doc',
+    content: [
+      { type: 'paragraph', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'body' }] },
+      { type: 'htmlEmbed', attrs: { source: '<script>alert(1)</script>' } },
+    ],
+  };
+
+  it('strips the embed when a non-admin (member) creates the page', () => {
+    const result = applyAdminGate(docWithEmbed, 'member');
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(result)).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.content).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(result.content[0].content[0].text).toBe('body');
+  });
+
+  it('strips the embed when the creator role is unknown/empty', () => {
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(applyAdminGate(docWithEmbed, null))).toBe(false);
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(applyAdminGate(docWithEmbed, undefined))).toBe(
+      false,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('keeps the embed when an admin or owner creates the page', () => {
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(applyAdminGate(docWithEmbed, 'admin'))).toBe(true);
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(applyAdminGate(docWithEmbed, 'owner'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('strips embeds smuggled via the markdown/html <!--html-embed--> form', () => {
+    // The markdown/html create formats decode to the same htmlEmbed node, so
+    // the gate (run on the parsed JSON) covers them identically.
+    const source = '<script>steal()</script>';
+    const encoded = encodeHtmlEmbedSource(source);
+    const html = `<div data-type="htmlEmbed" data-source="${encoded}"></div>`;
+    const parsed = htmlToJson(html);
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(parsed)).toBe(true);
+
+    const result = applyAdminGate(parsed, 'member');
+    expect(hasHtmlEmbedNode(result)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
 describe('htmlEmbed source base64 codec', () => {
   it('round-trips arbitrary source including UTF-8', () => {
     const source = '<script>console.log("héllo → 世界")</script>';
diff --git a/apps/server/src/core/page/page.controller.ts b/apps/server/src/core/page/page.controller.ts
index 1f5163bd..29365d66 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/core/page/page.controller.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/core/page/page.controller.ts
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ export class PageController {
       user.id,
       workspace.id,
       createPageDto,
+      // Pass the caller's workspace role so create() can enforce the htmlEmbed
+      // admin gate (non-admins cannot author raw-JS embeds).
+      user.role,
       provenance,
     );
 
diff --git a/apps/server/src/core/page/services/page.service.ts b/apps/server/src/core/page/services/page.service.ts
index adc8b746..baf5506a 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/core/page/services/page.service.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/core/page/services/page.service.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@ export class PageService {
     userId: string,
     workspaceId: string,
     createPageDto: CreatePageDto,
+    // Workspace role of the caller. Used to enforce the htmlEmbed admin gate on
+    // the create write path (see below). Optional/typed loosely so unknown or
+    // missing roles fall through to the non-admin (strip) branch by default.
+    callerRole?: string | null,
     // Optional agent-edit provenance (from the signed access claim). When the
     // actor is 'agent', stamp the page's source marker so a freshly created page
     // shows it was created by the AI agent (§14 N2) — create goes through REST,
@@ -128,11 +132,27 @@ export class PageService {
     let ydoc = undefined;
 
     if (createPageDto?.content && createPageDto?.format) {
-      const prosemirrorJson = await this.parseProsemirrorContent(
+      let prosemirrorJson = await this.parseProsemirrorContent(
         createPageDto.content,
         createPageDto.format,
       );
 
+      // SECURITY (Variant C admin gate, plain page-create write path):
+      // create() builds content/textContent/ydoc directly and persists them via
+      // insertPage, bypassing the collab onStoreDocument strip. htmlEmbed renders
+      // raw, unsanitized JS in readers' browsers, so only workspace admins/owners
+      // may author it. The create controller requires only space Edit, so a
+      // regular member could otherwise POST a doc (json, or the markdown/html
+      // <!--html-embed:BASE64--> forms that parse to the same node) containing an
+      // htmlEmbed and store XSS for every reader. Strip every htmlEmbed node when
+      // the caller is not an admin, BEFORE deriving textContent/ydoc/insert.
+      if (!canAuthorHtmlEmbed(callerRole) && hasHtmlEmbedNode(prosemirrorJson)) {
+        this.logger.warn(
+          `Stripping htmlEmbed node(s) from non-admin page creation by user ${userId} (space ${createPageDto.spaceId})`,
+        );
+        prosemirrorJson = stripHtmlEmbedNodes(prosemirrorJson);
+      }
+
       content = prosemirrorJson;
       textContent = jsonToText(prosemirrorJson);
       ydoc = createYdocFromJson(prosemirrorJson);