Protecting Your Apps From Link-based Vulnerabilities: Reverse Tabnabbing, Broken-Link Hijacking, and Open Redirects

Links! They're the very fabric of the Web. Browsing simply wouldn't be possible without them. Creating and following links feels so natural that you probably don't stop very often to wonder about the risks associated with them. In this post, I want to cover three vulnerabilities involving links: broken-link hijacking, open redirects, and reverse tabnabbing.Broken-link hijackingYou probably share useful resources in your blog posts, on your social networks, etc. By linking to some third-party website and inviting your readers, though, you're implicitly establishing some kind of contract with them. You're essentially saying:.