The more I read, the more theories I get on the topic. Everybody has his own theories about Clickjacking.There's no consensus on the issue. Clickjacking for one is URL rewriting for another,simple hyperlink jump for another. Even there are contradiction by the people on Aditya's PoC on clickjacking in Chrome browser. Even on Hackademix.net Giorgio Maone has took the PoC lilghtly. That again increased the mist around the issue.
Then what is the real clickjacking? In facts, with "Clickjacking" we designate a class of attacks (also known as "UI Redressing") which consist in hiding or disguising an user interface element from a site you trust in a way which leads you to click it without knowledge of what you're exactly doing.
That's what Aditya showed in his PoC. When you click the link you are redirected to another site of attackes' choice without knowledge of users. When hovering the mouse over link it shows the intended name of the site, there's no way of doubt but clicking it once takes user to another site.
Google accepted it,others not accepting it.
Mozilla assumes it as URL rewriting via onClick event handler. I wrote back to Mozilla:
Dear Mozilla Team,
Thanks for the quick response.
Regarding the first example (click.html) I have sent , the exploit is not the issue but the browser executes the exploit is the real issue.Google has accepted the exploit being executed in their chrome browser as vulnerable to clickjacking ( you might have gone through several articles regarding it).
I used the same exploit to test with your latest Firefox 3.1 beta 2, I found that it’s executing successfully. I used same exploit with Opera 9.63 and was executing in that browser.
That’s why I brought it in your notice.
Anyways everyone has his own theory. I am not claiming myself to be expert on the issue but as Mozilla said to me:
"Clickjacking is when a user clicks on what they think is a button on a random site (i.e. attacker's site in the URL bar) but they are actually clicking buttons on another site like their bank without realizing it."
And in my second example I did same thing. I used iframe to load Google.com and exactly over the search button using div tag I loaded a blank invisible transparent frame. Clicking on 'search' button user is actually clicking on the 'invisible frame' and gets redirected to another malicious site. That confirms Mozilla's aforementioned definition above. This is an example of Graphic Overlaying Clickjacking. There's no need of using Javascript to execute it. So even 'NoScript' Plugin won't mitigate it. Only thing that can prevent it is Frame Busitng codes that will prevent loading any frame in the web page at all!
But again I am getting different theories from different vendors about clickjacking. So I will now just sit back and wait for the final concluding clickjacking definition and then only go for further research.
Then what is the real clickjacking? In facts, with "Clickjacking" we designate a class of attacks (also known as "UI Redressing") which consist in hiding or disguising an user interface element from a site you trust in a way which leads you to click it without knowledge of what you're exactly doing.
That's what Aditya showed in his PoC. When you click the link you are redirected to another site of attackes' choice without knowledge of users. When hovering the mouse over link it shows the intended name of the site, there's no way of doubt but clicking it once takes user to another site.
Google accepted it,others not accepting it.
Mozilla assumes it as URL rewriting via onClick event handler. I wrote back to Mozilla:
Dear Mozilla Team,
Thanks for the quick response.
Regarding the first example (click.html) I have sent , the exploit is not the issue but the browser executes the exploit is the real issue.Google has accepted the exploit being executed in their chrome browser as vulnerable to clickjacking ( you might have gone through several articles regarding it).
I used the same exploit to test with your latest Firefox 3.1 beta 2, I found that it’s executing successfully. I used same exploit with Opera 9.63 and was executing in that browser.
That’s why I brought it in your notice.
Anyways everyone has his own theory. I am not claiming myself to be expert on the issue but as Mozilla said to me:
"Clickjacking is when a user clicks on what they think is a button on a random site (i.e. attacker's site in the URL bar) but they are actually clicking buttons on another site like their bank without realizing it."
And in my second example I did same thing. I used iframe to load Google.com and exactly over the search button using div tag I loaded a blank invisible transparent frame. Clicking on 'search' button user is actually clicking on the 'invisible frame' and gets redirected to another malicious site. That confirms Mozilla's aforementioned definition above. This is an example of Graphic Overlaying Clickjacking. There's no need of using Javascript to execute it. So even 'NoScript' Plugin won't mitigate it. Only thing that can prevent it is Frame Busitng codes that will prevent loading any frame in the web page at all!
But again I am getting different theories from different vendors about clickjacking. So I will now just sit back and wait for the final concluding clickjacking definition and then only go for further research.
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