Meanings
- uncountableweb developmentcomputingA malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.
New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen
2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 13 Sep 20161 more example
Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.
2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2008
Origin
Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish napsautuskaappaus, klikkauskaappaus
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Cite this entry
clickjacking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickjacking
“clickjacking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickjacking. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clickjacking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clickjacking.
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