diff --git a/js/web/lib/wasm/wasm-core-impl.ts b/js/web/lib/wasm/wasm-core-impl.ts
index 3d55584abf..890ef58ada 100644
--- a/js/web/lib/wasm/wasm-core-impl.ts
+++ b/js/web/lib/wasm/wasm-core-impl.ts
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ export const run =
                 errorCode = wasm._OrtGetTensorData(
                     tensor, tensorDataOffset, tensorDataOffset + 4, tensorDataOffset + 8, tensorDataOffset + 12);
                 if (errorCode !== 0) {
-                  throw new Error(`Can't get a tensor data. error code = ${errorCode}`);
+                  throw new Error(`Can't access output tensor data. error code = ${errorCode}`);
                 }
                 let tensorDataIndex = tensorDataOffset / 4;
                 const dataType = wasm.HEAPU32[tensorDataIndex++];
diff --git a/onnxruntime/wasm/api.cc b/onnxruntime/wasm/api.cc
index 85c7a6f477..2e52460b34 100644
--- a/onnxruntime/wasm/api.cc
+++ b/onnxruntime/wasm/api.cc
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ OrtSessionOptions* OrtCreateSessionOptions(size_t graph_optimization_level,
   RETURN_NULLPTR_IF_ERROR(EnableOrtCustomOps, session_options);
 #endif
 #if defined(USE_XNNPACK)
-  
+
   RETURN_NULLPTR_IF_ERROR(SessionOptionsAppendExecutionProvider, session_options, "XNNPACK", nullptr, nullptr, 0);
 #endif
   return session_options;
@@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ int OrtGetTensorData(OrtValue* tensor, int* data_type, void** data, size_t** dim
   size_t* p_dims = nullptr;
   void* p_string_data = nullptr;
 
+  ONNXType tensor_type;
+  RETURN_ERROR_CODE_IF_ERROR(GetValueType, tensor, &tensor_type);
+  if ( tensor_type != ONNX_TYPE_TENSOR ) {
+    return ORT_FAIL;
+  }
+
   RETURN_ERROR_CODE_IF_ERROR(GetTensorTypeAndShape, tensor, &info);
 
   size_t dims_len = 0;