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permissive_postmessage_target

CWE-346

Permissive Postmessage Target — a PullGuard finding type. Findings of this type appear in the PR comment, Step Summary, SARIF (GitHub Security tab / IDE viewers), and the HTML report, each with severity, location, and the remediation guidance below.

How to fix

Name the receiving origin instead of the wildcard trivial effort

// Before (any window can receive the message):
otherWindow.postMessage(payload, '*');

// After:
otherWindow.postMessage(payload, 'https://app.example.com');
// or, for a same-origin frame:
otherWindow.postMessage(payload, window.location.origin);

Triage

Suppress a confirmed non-issue with a committed .pullguardignore entry (pullguard ignore locally, or comment /pullguard ignore <fingerprint> <reason> on the PR — the fingerprint is printed in the PR comment’s Triage section). Entries support expiresAt for time-boxed snoozes.

Security findings at major or critical severity — and any critical finding — always surface: .pullguardignore cannot hide them. The reviewed paths that keep them visible are acknowledged (reviewed, stays in reports) and, for a confirmed false positive, a reasoned false_positive entry — visible and audited, excluded only from the merge block.