Harden render iframe open-link handling (#36811)

This PR hardens the handling of the “open-link” action in render iframes
(external rendering iframes). It prevents iframes from triggering unsafe
or unintended redirects or opening new windows via postMessage.

Additionally, it improves iframe height reporting to reduce scrollbar
and height mismatch issues, and adds unit test coverage.

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Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Lunny Xiao
2026-03-03 23:15:33 -08:00
committed by GitHub
parent b874e0d8e5
commit 315b947740
3 changed files with 92 additions and 13 deletions
@@ -20,7 +20,15 @@ function mainExternalRenderIframe() {
window.parent.postMessage({giteaIframeCmd: cmd, giteaIframeId: iframeId, ...data}, '*');
};
const updateIframeHeight = () => postIframeMsg('resize', {iframeHeight: document.documentElement.scrollHeight});
const updateIframeHeight = () => {
// Don't use integer heights from the DOM node.
// Use getBoundingClientRect(), then ceil the height to avoid fractional pixels which causes incorrect scrollbars.
const rect = document.documentElement.getBoundingClientRect();
postIframeMsg('resize', {iframeHeight: Math.ceil(rect.height)});
// As long as the parent page is responsible for the iframe height, the iframe itself doesn't need scrollbars.
// This style should only be dynamically set here when our code can run.
document.documentElement.style.overflowY = 'hidden';
};
const resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver(() => updateIframeHeight());
resizeObserver.observe(window.document.documentElement);
@@ -29,16 +37,18 @@ function mainExternalRenderIframe() {
// the easiest way to handle dynamic content changes and easy to debug, can be fine-tuned in the future
setInterval(updateIframeHeight, 1000);
// no way to open an absolute link with CSP frame-src, it also needs some tricks like "postMessage" or "copy the link to clipboard"
const openIframeLink = (link: string, target: string) => postIframeMsg('open-link', {openLink: link, anchorTarget: target});
// no way to open an absolute link with CSP frame-src, it needs some tricks like "postMessage" (let parent window to handle) or "copy the link to clipboard" (let users manually paste it to open).
// here we choose "postMessage" way for better user experience.
const openIframeLink = (link: string, target: string | null) => postIframeMsg('open-link', {openLink: link, anchorTarget: target});
document.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
const el = e.target as HTMLAnchorElement;
if (el.nodeName !== 'A') return;
const href = el.getAttribute('href') || '';
const href = el.getAttribute('href') ?? '';
// safe links: "./any", "../any", "/any", "//host/any", "http://host/any", "https://host/any"
if (href.startsWith('.') || href.startsWith('/') || href.startsWith('http://') || href.startsWith('https://')) {
e.preventDefault();
openIframeLink(href, el.getAttribute('target')!);
const forceTarget = (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) ? '_blank' : null;
openIframeLink(href, forceTarget ?? el.getAttribute('target'));
}
});
}