Collected research

Protecting Browsers from Frame Hijacking Attacks

Frame Hijacking

Adam Barth and Collin Jackson · seclab.stanford.edu

Stanford Web Security project index for frame hijacking: descendant-frame navigation lets any page overwrite an unrelated site's login iframe, which carries no address bar or security indicator. The page frames the problem and links three outputs; it does not carry the research itself.

Record

Document

Frame Hijacking

Researcher

Adam Barth and Collin Jackson

Published by

seclab.stanford.edu

Topic

Browser

In the archive

• Collected in the 2007 research round

Related sources

• 15936 – Overly permissive frame navigation allows password theft

Tags

• iframe
• same-origin-policy
• sop-bypass
• postmessage
• phishing
• mitigation
• defence
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Adam Barth and Collin Jackson, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 8 August 2026.