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Security for Web Applications

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Other Working Drafts

2011-11-29

Content Security Policy

Content Security Policy is a mechanism web applications can use to mitigate the broad class of content injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets the authors (or server administrators) of a web application restrict from where the application can load resources.

2011-07-21

The From-Origin Header

This specification defines the From-Origin response header - a way for resources to declare they are unavailable within an embedding context.

2010-07-27

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

This document defines a mechanism to enable client-side cross-origin requests.

2010-01-26

Uniform Messaging Policy, Level One

The Uniform Messaging Policy (UMP) enables cross-site messaging that avoids Cross-Site-Request-Forgery and similar attacks that abuse HTTP cookies and other credentials.