Can a website open on one browser tab PEEK at other tab?

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ddmsoft - 11 Jun 2008 08:46 GMT

Can a website open on one browser tab steal or retreive information
pertaining to other tabs that are open during the session?

i.e. can a website open on one tab PEEK at other tabs in any way? (other
tabs urls, data in open forms, passwords, user-names,etc) is firefox safer or
less-safe than IE7 in this respect?

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adi - 03 Jul 2008 12:21 GMT

yes, such attacks are called xss (cross site scripting) and are performed
through japascripts.
IE7 by defaults prevents this, however it is not complete as these kind of
attacks can take either on client side or server side

best practise is to open one windows while performing online transection and
then flush your all your cache , you can keep cookies and histroy

all other time you can open as many tabs

> Can a website open on one browser tab steal or retreive information
> pertaining to other tabs that are open during the session?
>
> i.e. can a website open on one tab PEEK at other tabs in any way? (other
> tabs urls, data in open forms, passwords, user-names,etc) is firefox safer or
> less-safe than IE7 in this respect?

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