eslint-plugin-no-wildcard-postmessage

Disallow wildcard targets for postMessage (no-wildcard-postmessage)

This function disallows unsafe coding practices that may result into security vulnerabilities. We will postMessage calls that contain a target origin of "*".

Rule Details

Disallowed:

frame.postMessage(obj, "*");
 

A few examples of allowed practices:

frame.postMessage(obj, "http://domain.tld");
// in a worker:
postMessage(obj);

This rule is being used within Mozilla to maintain and improve the security of the Firefox OS front-end codebase Gaia. Further documentation, which includes references to the escaping functions can be found on MDN.