Thankfully, browsers have made progress and no longer leave your passwords quite so open to external manipulation.

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'The steps in the provided description of the fix should address the external iframe handling as the user is now in control of which iframes are filled by the extension (as opposed to filling all iframes by default). “I highly appreciate that the vendor decided to address this security issue,' said Sven Krewitt, senior vulnerability researcher at Flashpoint.

IT Pro has asked the company why it decided to release the fix now even though it has known about the issue since 2018. “This eliminates the iframe attack vector while still allowing convenient autofill functionality for sites that have trusted iframes,” a spokesperson from Bitwarden told IT Pro. If a user fills in an untrusted iframe when using manual autofill, the password manager will flag an alert into the URI or URL to let the user decide whether to cancel or proceed with the operation. These trusted domains include the same domain as a website or a URL the user has designated as safe.īitwarden said that autofill on page load remains 'off' by default. The password manager will only fill in iframes from trusted domains if a user enables autofill on page load.

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