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Clickjacking is viewed as a social engineering attack which exploits peoples’ ignorance against web attacks. There are several preventions but none are fully protective as there are several workarounds.
What is a clickjacking vulnerability?
Clickjacking, also known as a “UI redress attack”, is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top level page.
Why are clickjacking attacks so hard to detect?
Because clickjacking attacks exploit the user’s trust in the displayed content and controls, they can be hard to detect automatically, and new attacks will continue to appear. The majority of popular clickjacking attacks involve framing the targeted web page in an iframe at some stage, so all the main prevention methods aim to disallow framing.
Can a CSRF vulnerability lead to a clickjacking attack?
Similarly if the user is active in his account and the web application is vulnerable to CSRF vulnerability then the attack can take over the account with the help of both these vulnerabilities. Using X-Frame-Options header will be the best solution for reduce the impact this vulnerability, but header should have these options.
How are we protected from clickjacking on the web?
Apart from anti-framing schemes on the server side and client side, users are also protected from clickjacking by security features built into modern browsers. The web page rendering process involves multiple layers of checks to ensure that UIs behave as expected by the user]
What’s the difference between clickjacking and UI redressing?
“Clickjacking” is a subset of the “UI redressing”. Clickjacking is a malicious technique that consists of deceiving a web user into interacting on something different from what the user believes he is interacting on. A clickjacking attack is done in most cases by clicking on a webpage element.