How about deleting the value if the input type is changed away from the
secure password input type AND that the secure password can only be
submitted to a similar URI.

Am 10.07.2011, 12:44 Uhr, schrieb Alex Vincent <[email protected]>:

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Michal Zalewski <[email protected]>wrote:

> For the last 10+ years, password inputs have been accessible from
scripts,
> with nary a complaint.  If I have this code:

Unfortunately, the problem is not that easy to fix: denying access to
the field does not prevent the attacker from changing the form
submission URL after autocompletion to achieve the same...


Or even simpler, changing the type attribute to something like "hidden" for
an instant.

I hate it when I don't think things through.



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