Caja project
Caja (pronounced /ˈkɑːhɑː/ KAH-hah)[1] was a Google project for sanitizing third party HTML, CSS and JavaScript. On January 31, 2021, Google archived the project due to known vulnerabilities and lack of maintenance to keep up with the latest web security research, recommending instead the Closure toolkit.[2]
The Caja project was led by
DOM objects, the host page typically gives references to wrappers that sanitize HTML, proxy URLs, and prevent redirecting the page; this allowed Caja to prevent certain phishing and cross-site scripting attacks, and prevent downloading malware
. Also, since all rewritten programs ran in the same frame, the host page could allow one program to export an object reference to another program; then inter-frame communication was simply method invocation.
The word "caja" is Spanish for "box" or "safe" (as in a bank), the idea being that Caja could safely contain JavaScript programs as well as being a capabilities-based JavaScript.
Caja was used by
had both deployed a very early version of Caja.See also
References
- ^ Mark, Miller. "Caja discussion on the Caplet Group". [cap-talk]. [e-lang]. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008.
- ^ "Introduction - Caja". Google Developers. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021.
- ^ Miller, Mark S.; Samuel, M; Laurie, B; Awad, I; Stay, M (7 June 2008). "Safe active content in sanitized JavaScript". Google Scholar.
- ^ Synodinos, Dio (25 February 2011). "ECMAScript 5, Caja and Retrofitting Security, with Mark S. Miller". InfoQ.
- ^ "Html Service: Caja Sanitization". Google Developers. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013.
- ^ "MySpace: Caja JavaScript scrubbing ready for prime time". 4 February 2008. Archived from the original on 1 October 2008.
- ^ "Web 2.0 Investors: Pay Attention To Caja". Tim Oren's Due Diligence. 11 April 2008.
- ^ Pullara, Sam (28 October 2008). "OpenSocial API Blog: Launched: Yahoo!'s First Implementation of OpenSocial Support". OpenSocial. Archived from the original on 16 December 2008.
External links
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- Caja project home page
- Caja project source code
- Caja playground
- Caja draft specification: "Safe active content in sanitized JavaScript", Mark S. Miller, Mike Samuel, Ben Laurie, Ihab Awad, Mike Stay
- Yahoo!/Google Caja Javascript Sandbox
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