diff --git a/aio/content/guide/service-worker-config.md b/aio/content/guide/service-worker-config.md
index e2aebfe8d56..ed33174d6de 100644
--- a/aio/content/guide/service-worker-config.md
+++ b/aio/content/guide/service-worker-config.md
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ Usually this is `/index.html`.
 They can include resources loaded from the page's origin as well as third-party resources loaded from CDNs and other external URLs.
 As not all such external URLs might be known at build time, URL patterns can be matched.
 
+<div class="alert is-important">
+
+  For the service worker to handle resources that are loaded from different origins, make sure that [CORS][MozillaDeveloperDocsWebHttpCors] is correctly configured on each origin's server.
+
+</div>
+
 This field contains an array of asset groups, each of which defines a set of asset resources and the policy by which they are cached.
 
 <code-example format="json" language="json">
@@ -440,6 +446,8 @@ It is recommended that you use the default performance strategy whenever possibl
 
 [WhatwgFetchSpecConceptFilteredResponseOpaque]: https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org#concept-filtered-response-opaque
 
+[MozillaDeveloperDocsWebHttpCors]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
+
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 @reviewed 2022-02-28