#1455 closed defect

WUI: ambiently accessible pages should framebust in order to prevent UI redressing attacks — at Initial Version

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.13.0
Component: code-frontend-web Version: 1.8.2
Keywords: security ambient wui redressing review-needed Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description

If an ambiently accessible WUI page (one that does not require a capability to access, such as the Welcome page) is loaded in a frame or iframe, the loading frame might be able to perform some UI redressing or clickjacking attacks.

For example, the loading frame could entice the user to click the "Create a directory" button, when it should not have the authority to create a directory on that grid.

This is not a very strong attack. In any case, it can be prevented by including some framebusting code on ambiently accessible WUI pages (or all WUI pages).

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