Even as the number of frontend programming vulnerabilities grows continually, many are not difficult to combat; you simply need to remember to fortify your frontend security against them.
- Maybe, simply start with the HTML5 Security Cheat Sheet which is what this post set out to do
- Protect
<a href="..." target="_blank">vulnerability to hacked target page by includingrel="noopener noreferrer". See Target=”_blank” – the most underestimated vulnerability ever
Darn if the ISP serving up our PHP and WordPress content wasn’t attacked with an exploit. So I did a lot of learning as I cleaned up my web server, this past weekend. The goal of this exploit was to infect visitors of the web site with viruses by coercing visitors’ browsers to download malware from predefined third-party sites, seeded with the malware. That means modifying web site code to send visitors to those malicious sites.