I've seen websites placing HTTPS iframes on HTTP pages.
Are there any security concerns with this? Is it secure to transmit private information like credit card details in such a scheme (where the information is only placed on the HTTPS iframe form, and not on the HTTP parent page)?
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Answered on Mar 21, 2022
An iframe HTTPS within a page served over HTTP will not allow the user to be sure they are actually using the HTTPS connection that they expect to be; therefore, this potentially allows the iframe to be hijacked in a simple attack such as an iframe injection. This would allow password harvesting, among other things. Such an attack could begin through a Trojan, a virus, or simply visiting a malicious website.
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