Understanding and Preventing CSS-Based Clickjacking Attacks
You think you’re clicking a “Play” button. You’re actually confirming a payment, granting a permission, or liking a page you’ve never
You think you’re clicking a “Play” button. You’re actually confirming a payment, granting a permission, or liking a page you’ve never
One stray quote mark in a username field is all it takes. A visitor types ‘ OR ‘1’=’1 where your form
You land on what looks like your bank’s login page. The logo’s right, the fonts match, the button has that familiar
One malicious string in the wrong text box, and an attacker is running code inside your users’ browsers, on your domain,
Most of us think of CSS as harmless. It paints the page. It can’t run code, it can’t read your keystrokes,
You ship a login flow, stash the session token in localStorage because it survives refreshes, and move on. It works. Then
A user lands on your page, sees a friendly button, and clicks it. Nothing looks wrong. But the click never went
You escaped every bit of user input in your HTML. You locked down your script sources. Then someone pastes a few
One line of PHP is all it takes. A developer wires a page loader off a URL parameter, ships it, and
You click a button that says “Play.” Nothing seems to happen. But the click didn’t land on the button you saw.
A stylesheet feels harmless. It picks fonts, sets colors, nudges spacing. Nobody audits CSS the way they audit a login form,