diff --git a/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/ViewComponentInput.qll b/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/ViewComponentInput.qll
index 652a1502179d..bc80826de5c9 100644
--- a/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/ViewComponentInput.qll
+++ b/javascript/ql/lib/semmle/javascript/ViewComponentInput.qll
@@ -7,6 +7,41 @@ private import javascript
 /**
  * An input to a view component, such as React props.
  */
-abstract class ViewComponentInput extends ThreatModelSource::Range {
+abstract class ViewComponentInput extends DataFlow::Node {
+  /** Gets a string that describes the type of this threat-model source. */
+  abstract string getSourceType();
+}
+
+private class ViewComponentInputAsThreatModelSource extends ThreatModelSource::Range instanceof ViewComponentInput
+{
+  ViewComponentInputAsThreatModelSource() { not isSafeType(this.asExpr().getType()) }
+
   final override string getThreatModel() { result = "view-component-input" }
+
+  final override string getSourceType() { result = ViewComponentInput.super.getSourceType() }
+}
+
+private predicate isSafeType(Type t) {
+  t instanceof NumberLikeType
+  or
+  t instanceof BooleanLikeType
+  or
+  t instanceof UndefinedType
+  or
+  t instanceof NullType
+  or
+  t instanceof VoidType
+  or
+  hasSafeTypes(t, t.(UnionType).getNumElementType())
+  or
+  isSafeType(t.(IntersectionType).getAnElementType())
+}
+
+/** Hold if the first `n` components of `t` are safe types. */
+private predicate hasSafeTypes(UnionType t, int n) {
+  isSafeType(t.getElementType(0)) and
+  n = 1
+  or
+  isSafeType(t.getElementType(n - 1)) and
+  hasSafeTypes(t, n - 1)
 }