fix: render a hostile token symbol as text, and put a floor under the CSP (closes #307)

A token's symbol is whatever its symbol() returns, the block explorer passes it
through unfiltered, and balanceLine() interpolated it into an innerHTML string.
A token with the 1,000 holders the spam filter asks for, airdropped to the
victim, could therefore paint a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the
wallet's own UI, on the screens where the user is used to typing their password.

escapeHtml moves to the new src/shared/html.js as a pure string replace over &,
<, >, " and '. The implementation it replaces round-tripped through a detached
element's textContent, which escapes neither quote character, and it was already
in use inside data-copy="..." and would have been inside href="...". Being pure
also makes it testable without a DOM shim.

Every interpolation into an innerHTML string across src/popup/views/ was audited
rather than only the reported one. Also unescaped: the transaction lists'
direction label (the explorer's method name, attacker-chosen for an attacker's
contract), the wallet name and ENS name in the Home wallet list, the URL in the
explorer link's href, the blockie data: URI, and the confirmation screen's
warning line, which carries only fixed strings today but is one wiring change
from carrying scraped explorer text. Explorer URLs are now built by one helper
that percent-encodes the path segment, so a from/to out of explorer JSON cannot
re-point the link. Where a value is a markup fragment this code just built, or a
loop index, or a locally computed number, it stays bare; the rule and the reason
are stated at the top of helpers.js.

Both manifests now declare default-src 'self' with frame-src 'none'. Four
directives had to stay looser than 'self' and none of them generalises:
style-src needs 'unsafe-inline' because the popup sets presentation through
style="..." attributes and Firefox has never implemented style-src-attr; img-src
needs data: for the blockies; connect-src needs https: and http: because the RPC
endpoint is user-configurable and a local node over http://127.0.0.1 is a
supported configuration. frame-src, form-action and base-uri are named rather
than inherited, because the last two do not fall back to default-src at all.
tests/manifest.test.js now pins the whole directive set exactly, in both
directions, and README.md carries the reasoning.

Displayed symbols are capped at 12 characters, the bound lookupTokenInfo()
already applied to a symbol read straight off a contract; the explorer path had
none. The cap is a layout bound and is documented as not being the security
control. isSpoofedSymbol() is untouched: it answers whether a symbol collides
with a known ticker, which is a different question, and repurposing it here
would have been the wrong control.

Verified failing first, four ways. Restricting escapeHtml to & < > (the escape
the old textContent round trip actually performed) fails 5 unit tests including
the data-copy attribute break-out. Removing the length cap fails 3. Dropping
default-src from manifest/chrome.json fails 2. Removing both the escape and the
cap and running the full Chrome suite fails the new browser test with the
attack reproduced: an <iframe id="pwn"> in the popup DOM, intercepting pointer
events over the Back button.

README.md

@@ -1464,10 +1464,44 @@ policy, but as of now there are none.
 
 ### Content Security Policy
 
-Both manifests declare the same policy for extension pages —
-`script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'` — as an object under
+Both manifests declare the same policy for extension pages, as an object under
 `content_security_policy.extension_pages` in `manifest/chrome.json` (MV3) and as
-a bare string in `manifest/firefox.json` (MV2).
+a bare string in `manifest/firefox.json` (MV2):
+
+```
+default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self';
+style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' data:;
+connect-src 'self' https: http:; frame-src 'none'; form-action 'none';
+base-uri 'none'
+```
+
+`default-src 'self'` is the floor. Without it the policy governed script and
+plugins only, and everything else — frames above all — was unrestricted, which
+is what let an unescaped token symbol paint a cross-origin iframe over the
+wallet's own UI. Escaping is the primary fix for that (see
+`src/shared/html.js`); this is the second line, so an escape that does slip
+cannot reach the network.
+
+Four directives are looser than `'self'`, each for a reason that does not
+generalise:
+
+- `style-src 'unsafe-inline'` — `src/popup/index.html` and the view helpers set
+  presentation through `style="..."` attributes, which CSP blocks without this.
+  Chrome enforces `style-src` on attributes, not only on `<style>` blocks, and
+  Firefox has never implemented `style-src-attr`, so there is no narrower
+  spelling that works on both targets. It permits inline **style**; script stays
+  under `script-src`, which does not allow `'unsafe-inline'`.
+- `img-src data:` — identicons are generated in the popup by
+  `ethereum-blockies-base64` and assigned to `img.src` as `data:` PNGs.
+- `connect-src https: http:` — the RPC endpoint is user-configurable and a local
+  node over `http://127.0.0.1` is a supported configuration, which the Firefox
+  end-to-end suite depends on. The wallet's outbound traffic is constrained by
+  what it is written to contact (see External Communication), not by this
+  directive.
+- `frame-src 'none'`, `form-action 'none'`, `base-uri 'none'` — named rather
+  than inherited. `form-action` and `base-uri` do not fall back to `default-src`
+  at all, so they would have stayed unrestricted; `frame-src 'none'` is what
+  refuses the framed-overlay attack outright.
 
 `'wasm-unsafe-eval'` is there for one reason: libsodium. It ships a WebAssembly
 build and a `wasm2js` translation of it in one file, tries WASM first, and
@@ -1485,9 +1519,10 @@ strings, not inline script, not remote script. Using it requires already
 executing script in an extension page, which is complete compromise on its own.
 `'unsafe-eval'` is a different proposition and is not granted.
 
-The grant is pinned in both directions. `tests/manifest.test.js` asserts the
-exact token set in both manifests, so dropping `'wasm-unsafe-eval'` (a silent
-20x regression on the key derivation) and adding anything beyond it both fail
+The policy is pinned in both directions. `tests/manifest.test.js` asserts the
+exact directive set and the exact token set of each directive in both manifests,
+so dropping `'wasm-unsafe-eval'` (a silent 20x regression on the key
+derivation), dropping `default-src`, and adding anything anywhere all fail
 `make check`. `tests/vaultBackend.test.js` asserts the unit tests run the WASM
 backend, and `make test-e2e` compiles a WebAssembly module inside the real popup
 under the real manifest.

TODO.md

@@ -44,6 +44,28 @@ but the review is broader than any of them.
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-08-20: A hostile ERC-20 symbol no longer renders as live HTML in the
+  popup ([#307](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/307)). A token
+  symbol is whatever the contract's `symbol()` returns, the block explorer
+  passes it through unfiltered, and `balanceLine()` interpolated it into an
+  `innerHTML` string — so a token with the 1,000 holders the spam filter asks
+  for, airdropped to the victim, could paint a full-viewport cross-origin iframe
+  over the wallet's own UI, on the screens where the user types their password.
+  `escapeHtml` moved to `src/shared/html.js` as a pure string replace over `&`,
+  `<`, `>`, `"` and `'`: the old implementation round-tripped through a detached
+  element's `textContent`, which does not escape quotes, and it was already
+  being used inside `data-copy="..."`. Every interpolation into an `innerHTML`
+  string across `src/popup/views/` was audited, not just the reported one — the
+  transaction lists' direction label, the wallet name and ENS name in the Home
+  list, the `href` in the explorer link, and the confirmation screen's warning
+  line were all unescaped as well. Both manifests now declare
+  `default-src 'self'` with `frame-src 'none'`; the four directives that had to
+  stay looser than `'self'` are named and justified in the Content Security
+  Policy section of README.md, and `tests/manifest.test.js` pins the whole set
+  exactly. A display cap of 12 characters bounds the symbol, matching the bound
+  `lookupTokenInfo()` already applied on the contract-read path. Not repurposed
+  for any of this: `isSpoofedSymbol()`, which answers a different question and
+  would have been the wrong control.
 - 2026-08-20: A page asking which chain the wallet is on is told the chain the
   user is actually on ([#317](https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/317)).
   `eth_chainId` and `net_version` answered from `currentNetwork()`, which reads

manifest/chrome.json

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     "permissions": ["storage", "activeTab", "alarms"],
     "host_permissions": ["<all_urls>"],
     "content_security_policy": {
-        "extension_pages": "script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'"
+        "extension_pages": "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' data:; connect-src 'self' https: http:; frame-src 'none'; form-action 'none'; base-uri 'none'"
     },
     "action": {
         "default_popup": "src/popup/index.html"

manifest/firefox.json

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "version": "0.1.0",
     "description": "Minimal Ethereum wallet for Firefox",
     "permissions": ["storage", "activeTab", "alarms", "<all_urls>"],
-    "content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'",
+    "content_security_policy": "default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-eval'; object-src 'self'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; img-src 'self' data:; connect-src 'self' https: http:; frame-src 'none'; form-action 'none'; base-uri 'none'",
     "browser_action": {
         "default_popup": "src/popup/index.html"
     },

src/popup/views/addToken.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const { $, showView, showFlash, goBack } = require("./helpers");
+const { $, showView, showFlash, escapeHtml, goBack } = require("./helpers");
 const { getTopTokens } = require("../../shared/tokenList");
 const { state, saveState } = require("../../shared/state");
 const { lookupTokenInfo } = require("../../shared/balances");
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function show() {
     list.innerHTML = getTopTokens(25)
         .map(
             (t) =>
-                `<button class="common-token border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer text-xs" data-address="${t.address}" data-symbol="${t.symbol}" data-decimals="${t.decimals}">${t.symbol}</button>`,
+                `<button class="common-token border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer text-xs" data-address="${escapeHtml(t.address)}" data-symbol="${escapeHtml(t.symbol)}" data-decimals="${escapeHtml(t.decimals)}">${escapeHtml(t.symbol)}</button>`,
         )
         .join("");
     list.querySelectorAll(".common-token").forEach((btn) => {

src/popup/views/addressDetail.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const {
     addressDotHtml,
     addressTitle,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     truncateMiddle,
     renderAddressHtml,
     attachCopyHandlers,
@@ -221,10 +222,12 @@ function renderTransactions(txs) {
                   : tx.from;
         const ensName = ensNameMap.get(counterparty) || null;
         const title = addressTitle(counterparty, state.wallets);
-        const dirLabel = tx.directionLabel;
+        // The explorer's method name for a contract call, title-cased.
+        const dirLabel = escapeHtml(tx.directionLabel);
+        const sym = displaySymbol(tx.symbol);
         const amountStr = tx.value
-            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + tx.symbol)
-            : escapeHtml(tx.symbol);
+            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + sym)
+            : escapeHtml(sym);
         const maxAddr = Math.max(32, 36 - Math.max(0, amountStr.length - 10));
         const displayAddr =
             title || ensName || truncateMiddle(counterparty, maxAddr);

src/popup/views/addressToken.js

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const {
     addressDotHtml,
     addressTitle,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     truncateMiddle,
     balanceLine,
     renderAddressHtml,
@@ -124,7 +125,11 @@ function show() {
     currentSymbol = symbol;
 
     $("address-token-title").textContent =
-        wallet.name + " \u2014 Address " + (ai + 1) + " \u2014 " + symbol;
+        wallet.name +
+        " \u2014 Address " +
+        (ai + 1) +
+        " \u2014 " +
+        displaySymbol(symbol);
 
     // Blockie
     const blockieEl = $("address-token-jazzicon");
@@ -174,7 +179,9 @@ function show() {
             (knownToken && knownToken.symbol) ||
             null;
         const tokenName = rawName ? escapeHtml(rawName) : null;
-        const tokenSymbol = rawSymbol ? escapeHtml(rawSymbol) : null;
+        const tokenSymbol = rawSymbol
+            ? escapeHtml(displaySymbol(rawSymbol))
+            : null;
         const tokenDecimals =
             tb && tb.decimals != null
                 ? tb.decimals
@@ -288,10 +295,12 @@ function renderTransactions(txs) {
         const counterparty = tx.direction === "sent" ? tx.to : tx.from;
         const ensName = ensNameMap.get(counterparty) || null;
         const title = addressTitle(counterparty, state.wallets);
-        const dirLabel = tx.directionLabel;
+        // The explorer's method name for a contract call, title-cased.
+        const dirLabel = escapeHtml(tx.directionLabel);
+        const sym = displaySymbol(tx.symbol);
         const amountStr = tx.value
-            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + tx.symbol)
-            : escapeHtml(tx.symbol);
+            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + sym)
+            : escapeHtml(sym);
         const maxAddr = Math.max(32, 36 - Math.max(0, amountStr.length - 10));
         const displayAddr =
             title || ensName || truncateMiddle(counterparty, maxAddr);
@@ -361,7 +370,7 @@ function init(_ctx) {
         }
         // Hide dropdown, show static token display
         $("send-token").classList.add("hidden");
-        let staticHtml = `<div class="font-bold">${escapeHtml(currentSymbol)}</div>`;
+        let staticHtml = `<div class="font-bold">${escapeHtml(displaySymbol(currentSymbol))}</div>`;
         if (tokenId !== "ETH") {
             staticHtml += `<div class="text-xs">${renderAddressHtml(tokenId)}</div>`;
         }

src/popup/views/confirmTx.js

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const {
     showView,
     addressTitle,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     renderAddressHtml,
     attachCopyHandlers,
     goBack,
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ function restore() {
 
 function blockieHtml(address) {
     const src = makeBlockie(address);
-    return `<img src="${src}" width="48" height="48" style="image-rendering:pixelated;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block">`;
+    return `<img src="${escapeHtml(src)}" width="48" height="48" style="image-rendering:pixelated;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block">`;
 }
 
 function confirmAddressHtml(address, ensName, title) {
@@ -81,7 +82,11 @@ function show(txInfo) {
     feeWei = null;
 
     const isErc20 = txInfo.token !== "ETH";
-    const symbol = isErc20 ? txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?" : "ETH";
+    // The raw symbol is the price-table key; the capped one is what the
+    // screen says. Truncating before the lookup would silently drop the
+    // price of any token whose symbol is long enough to be capped.
+    const rawSymbol = isErc20 ? txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?" : "ETH";
+    const symbol = displaySymbol(rawSymbol);
 
     // Transaction type
     if (isErc20) {
@@ -123,7 +128,7 @@ function show(txInfo) {
 
     // Amount (with inline USD)
     const ethPrice = getPrice("ETH");
-    const tokenPrice = getPrice(symbol);
+    const tokenPrice = getPrice(rawSymbol);
     const amountNum = parseFloat(txInfo.amount);
     const price = isErc20 ? tokenPrice : ethPrice;
     const amountUsd = price ? amountNum * price : null;
@@ -156,7 +161,12 @@ function show(txInfo) {
         warningsEl.innerHTML = localWarnings
             .map(
                 (w) =>
-                    `<div class="border border-border border-dashed p-2 mb-1 text-xs font-bold">WARNING: ${w.message}</div>`,
+                    // Only the three hardcoded strings in
+                    // src/shared/addressWarnings.js reach this today, but
+                    // src/shared/etherscanLabels.js already builds a
+                    // `warning` out of scraped explorer markup, so this is
+                    // one wiring change away from carrying remote text.
+                    `<div class="border border-border border-dashed p-2 mb-1 text-xs font-bold">WARNING: ${escapeHtml(w.message)}</div>`,
             )
             .join("");
         warningsEl.style.visibility = "visible";
@@ -206,7 +216,7 @@ function show(txInfo) {
 // touches already occupies its space, so re-running it never moves anything.
 function renderValidation(txInfo) {
     const isErc20 = txInfo.token !== "ETH";
-    const symbol = isErc20 ? txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?" : "ETH";
+    const symbol = isErc20 ? displaySymbol(txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?") : "ETH";
 
     const { canSend, codes } = validateTransfer({
         isErc20,

src/popup/views/deleteAddress.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const {
     $,
     showView,
     showFlash,
+    escapeHtml,
     goBack,
     renderAddressHtml,
     attachCopyHandlers,
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ function balanceWarningHtml(addr) {
     if (!addressHoldsFunds(addr)) return " ";
     const line = formatAddressTotal(getAddressValue(addr));
     const total = line
-        ? `<div class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">${line}</div>`
+        ? `<div class="text-xs text-muted mt-1">${escapeHtml(line)}</div>`
         : "";
     return (
         `<p class="mb-1">This address holds a balance. Removing it does not ` +

src/popup/views/helpers.js

@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@
 // Shared DOM helpers used by all views.
+//
+// Escaping rule for every view in this directory, since they all build
+// markup by concatenation: any VALUE interpolated into an innerHTML string
+// goes through escapeHtml(), whatever its provenance looks like today. The
+// only interpolations left bare are markup FRAGMENTS this code just built
+// (a rendered dot, an icon, a composed row), which escaping would turn into
+// visible angle brackets, and locally computed numbers and loop indices.
+// The distinction is meant to be greppable: an unescaped `${` next to a
+// name that reads like data is a defect.
 
+// escapeHtml lives in src/shared/html.js, where the escape and the
+// reasoning behind it are; it is re-exported below so views keep importing
+// it from here.
+const { escapeHtml } = require("../../shared/html");
 const { isDebug } = require("../../shared/log");
 const { formatUsd, getPrice } = require("../../shared/prices");
 const { state, saveState, currentNetwork } = require("../../shared/state");
+const { displaySymbol } = require("../../shared/symbolDisplay");
 const { markViewRendered } = require("../viewRouter");
 
 // When views are added, removed, or transitions between them change,
@@ -177,17 +191,26 @@ function showFlash(msg, duration = 2000) {
     }, duration);
 }
 
+// One row of the balance list: symbol, quantity, fiat value.
+//
+// `symbol` is the ERC-20's own symbol() as the block explorer reported it,
+// so it is attacker-chosen markup until it has been through escapeHtml, and
+// attacker-chosen length until it has been through displaySymbol. This is
+// the row that issue #307 was reported against: every screen that lists a
+// holding renders through here.
 function balanceLine(symbol, amount, price, tokenId) {
     const qty = amount.toFixed(4);
     const usd = price ? formatUsd(amount * price) || " " : " ";
-    const tokenAttr = tokenId ? ` data-token="${tokenId}"` : "";
+    // tokenId is a contract address out of the same explorer JSON, and it
+    // lands inside a quoted attribute.
+    const tokenAttr = tokenId ? ` data-token="${escapeHtml(tokenId)}"` : "";
     const clickClass = tokenId
         ? " cursor-pointer hover:bg-hover balance-row"
         : "";
     return (
         `<div class="flex text-xs${clickClass}"${tokenAttr}>` +
         `<span class="flex justify-between" style="width:42ch;max-width:100%">` +
-        `<span>${symbol}</span>` +
+        `<span>${escapeHtml(displaySymbol(symbol))}</span>` +
         `<span>${qty}</span>` +
         `</span>` +
         `<span class="text-right text-muted flex-1">${usd}</span>` +
@@ -289,12 +312,6 @@ function addressDotHtml(address) {
     return `<span style="width:8px;height:8px;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block;background:${color};margin-right:4px;vertical-align:middle;flex-shrink:0;"></span>`;
 }
 
-function escapeHtml(s) {
-    const div = document.createElement("div");
-    div.textContent = s;
-    return div.innerHTML;
-}
-
 // Look up an address across all wallets and return its title
 // (e.g. "Address 1.2") or null if it's not one of ours.
 function addressTitle(address, wallets) {
@@ -382,13 +399,26 @@ const EXT_ICON =
     `<path d="M7 1.5h3.5V5M7 5.5L10.5 1.5"/>` +
     `</svg></span>`;
 
-function etherscanAddressUrl(address) {
-    return `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/address/${address}`;
+// Block-explorer URLs. The origin is a per-network constant from
+// src/shared/networks.js; only the path segment is data, and it comes out
+// of explorer JSON (a transaction's from/to, a token's address_hash), which
+// nothing upstream validates as hex. percent-encoding it keeps a segment
+// that contains a slash, a query or a fragment from re-pointing the link
+// somewhere else in the explorer.
+function explorerUrl(kind, value) {
+    return `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/${kind}/${encodeURIComponent(value)}`;
 }
 
+function etherscanAddressUrl(address) {
+    return explorerUrl("address", address);
+}
+
+// The URL still has to be escaped on the way into href="...": encoding
+// governs what the URL means, escaping governs whether it stays inside the
+// attribute.
 function etherscanLinkHtml(url) {
     return (
-        `<a href="${url}" target="_blank" rel="noopener" ` +
+        `<a href="${escapeHtml(url)}" target="_blank" rel="noopener" ` +
         `class="inline-flex items-center">${EXT_ICON}</a>`
     );
 }
@@ -492,6 +522,7 @@ module.exports = {
     addressColor,
     addressDotHtml,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     addressTitle,
     formatAddressHtml,
     renderAddressHtml,
@@ -499,6 +530,7 @@ module.exports = {
     attachCopyHandlers,
     etherscanAddressUrl,
     etherscanLinkHtml,
+    explorerUrl,
     EXT_ICON,
     truncateMiddle,
     isoDate,

src/popup/views/home.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const {
     addressDotHtml,
     addressTitle,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     truncateMiddle,
     renderAddressHtml,
     attachCopyHandlers,
@@ -109,10 +110,13 @@ function renderHomeTxList(ctx) {
                 : tx.direction === "sent" || tx.direction === "contract"
                   ? tx.to
                   : tx.from;
-        const dirLabel = tx.directionLabel;
+        // directionLabel is the explorer's own method name for a contract
+        // call, title-cased — attacker-chosen for an attacker's contract.
+        const dirLabel = escapeHtml(tx.directionLabel);
+        const sym = displaySymbol(tx.symbol);
         const amountStr = tx.value
-            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + tx.symbol)
-            : escapeHtml(tx.symbol);
+            ? escapeHtml(tx.value + " " + sym)
+            : escapeHtml(sym);
         const title = addressTitle(counterparty, state.wallets);
         const maxAddr = Math.max(32, 36 - Math.max(0, amountStr.length - 10));
         const displayAddr = title || truncateMiddle(counterparty, maxAddr);
@@ -226,7 +230,7 @@ function walletListHtml() {
         const defect = walletDefect(wallet);
         html += `<div>`;
         html += `<div class="flex justify-between items-center bg-section py-1 px-2" style="margin:0 -0.5rem">`;
-        html += `<span class="font-bold cursor-pointer wallet-name underline decoration-dashed" data-wallet="${wi}">${wallet.name}</span>`;
+        html += `<span class="font-bold cursor-pointer wallet-name underline decoration-dashed" data-wallet="${wi}">${escapeHtml(wallet.name)}</span>`;
         // No "+" on a defective wallet: deriving another address from that
         // xpub would only add one more address the key does not produce
         // under the standard path.
@@ -250,10 +254,13 @@ function walletListHtml() {
             const titleBold = isActive ? "font-bold" : "";
             html += `<div class="text-xs ${titleBold}">Address ${ai + 1}</div>`;
             if (addr.ensName) {
-                html += `<div class="text-xs font-bold flex items-center">${dot}${addr.ensName}</div>`;
+                // An ENS reverse record is whatever the name owner set it
+                // to; renderAddressHtml() escapes its own copy of this and
+                // this list was the one that did not.
+                html += `<div class="text-xs font-bold flex items-center">${dot}${escapeHtml(addr.ensName)}</div>`;
             }
             html += `<div class="flex text-xs items-center justify-between">`;
-            html += `<span class="flex items-center break-all">${addr.ensName ? "" : dot}${addr.address}</span>`;
+            html += `<span class="flex items-center break-all">${addr.ensName ? "" : dot}${escapeHtml(addr.address)}</span>`;
             html += `<span class="flex-shrink-0 ml-1">${infoBtn}${removeBtn}</span>`;
             html += `</div>`;
             const addrTotal = formatAddressTotal(getAddressValue(addr));

src/popup/views/receive.js

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ const {
     flashCopyFeedback,
     formatAddressHtml,
     addressTitle,
+    displaySymbol,
     attachCopyHandlers,
     goBack,
 } = require("./helpers");
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ function show() {
         }
         warningEl.textContent =
             "This is an ERC-20 token. Only send " +
-            symbol +
+            displaySymbol(symbol) +
             " on " +
             currentNetwork().name +
             " to this address. Sending tokens on other networks will result in permanent loss.";

src/popup/views/send.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const {
     $,
     showFlash,
     addressTitle,
+    displaySymbol,
     renderAddressHtml,
     attachCopyHandlers,
     goBack,
@@ -131,7 +132,7 @@ function renderSendTokenSelect(addr) {
         if (state.hideLowHolderTokens && isLowHolderCount(t.holders)) continue;
         const opt = document.createElement("option");
         opt.value = t.address;
-        opt.textContent = t.symbol;
+        opt.textContent = displaySymbol(t.symbol);
         sel.appendChild(opt);
     }
 }

src/popup/views/settings.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ const {
     updateDebugBanner,
     showFlash,
     escapeHtml,
+    displaySymbol,
     flashCopyFeedback,
     goBack,
     pushCurrentView,
@@ -43,8 +44,11 @@ function renderSiteList(containerId, siteMap, stateKey) {
     let html = "";
     hostnames.forEach((hostname) => {
         html += `<div class="flex justify-between items-center text-xs py-1 border-b border-border-light">`;
-        html += `<span>${hostname}</span>`;
-        html += `<button class="btn-remove-site border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer" data-key="${stateKey}" data-hostname="${hostname}">[x]</button>`;
+        // A hostname the URL parser produced cannot carry a delimiter, so
+        // this is escaped for the rule rather than for a known hole — the
+        // rule being that nothing reaches innerHTML unescaped.
+        html += `<span>${escapeHtml(hostname)}</span>`;
+        html += `<button class="btn-remove-site border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer" data-key="${escapeHtml(stateKey)}" data-hostname="${escapeHtml(hostname)}">[x]</button>`;
         html += `</div>`;
     });
     container.innerHTML = html;
@@ -73,9 +77,10 @@ function renderTrackedTokens() {
     }
     let html = "";
     state.trackedTokens.forEach((token, idx) => {
+        const sym = escapeHtml(displaySymbol(token.symbol));
         const label = token.name
-            ? escapeHtml(token.name) + " (" + escapeHtml(token.symbol) + ")"
-            : escapeHtml(token.symbol);
+            ? escapeHtml(token.name) + " (" + sym + ")"
+            : sym;
         html += `<div class="flex justify-between items-center text-xs py-1 border-b border-border-light">`;
         html += `<span>${label}</span>`;
         html += `<button class="btn-remove-token border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer" data-idx="${idx}">[x]</button>`;

src/popup/views/settingsAddToken.js

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const { $, showView, showFlash, goBack } = require("./helpers");
+const { $, showView, showFlash, escapeHtml, goBack } = require("./helpers");
 const { getTopTokens } = require("../../shared/tokenList");
 const { state, saveState } = require("../../shared/state");
 const { lookupTokenInfo } = require("../../shared/balances");
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ function renderTop10() {
                 : "border border-border px-1 hover:bg-fg hover:text-bg cursor-pointer text-xs";
             return (
                 `<button class="settings-addtoken-quick ${cls}"` +
-                ` data-address="${t.address}"` +
-                ` data-symbol="${t.symbol}"` +
-                ` data-decimals="${t.decimals}"` +
-                ` data-name="${(t.name || "").replace(/"/g, "&quot;")}"` +
-                `${tracked ? " disabled" : ""}>${t.symbol}</button>`
+                ` data-address="${escapeHtml(t.address)}"` +
+                ` data-symbol="${escapeHtml(t.symbol)}"` +
+                ` data-decimals="${escapeHtml(t.decimals)}"` +
+                ` data-name="${escapeHtml(t.name || "")}"` +
+                `${tracked ? " disabled" : ""}>${escapeHtml(t.symbol)}</button>`
             );
         })
         .join("");
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ function renderDropdown() {
         const tracked = isTracked(t.address);
         const label = tokenLabel(t) + (tracked ? " (tracked)" : "");
         html +=
-            `<option value="${t.address}"` +
-            ` data-symbol="${t.symbol}"` +
-            ` data-decimals="${t.decimals}"` +
-            ` data-name="${(t.name || "").replace(/"/g, "&quot;")}"` +
-            `${tracked ? " disabled" : ""}>${label}</option>`;
+            `<option value="${escapeHtml(t.address)}"` +
+            ` data-symbol="${escapeHtml(t.symbol)}"` +
+            ` data-decimals="${escapeHtml(t.decimals)}"` +
+            ` data-name="${escapeHtml(t.name || "")}"` +
+            `${tracked ? " disabled" : ""}>${escapeHtml(label)}</option>`;
     }
     sel.innerHTML = html;
 }

src/popup/views/transactionDetail.js

@@ -15,9 +15,11 @@ const {
     attachCopyHandlers,
     copyableHtml,
     etherscanLinkHtml,
+    explorerUrl,
+    displaySymbol,
     goBack,
 } = require("./helpers");
-const { state, currentNetwork } = require("../../shared/state");
+const { state } = require("../../shared/state");
 const { formatEther, formatUnits } = require("ethers");
 const makeBlockie = require("ethereum-blockies-base64");
 const { log, debugFetch } = require("../../shared/log");
@@ -44,7 +46,7 @@ function getTransactionType(tx) {
 
 function blockieHtml(address) {
     const src = makeBlockie(address);
-    return `<img src="${src}" width="48" height="48" style="image-rendering:pixelated;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block">`;
+    return `<img src="${escapeHtml(src)}" width="48" height="48" style="image-rendering:pixelated;border-radius:50%;display:inline-block">`;
 }
 
 function txAddressHtml(address, ensName, title) {
@@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ function txAddressHtml(address, ensName, title) {
 }
 
 function txHashHtml(hash) {
-    const link = `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/tx/${hash}`;
+    const link = explorerUrl("tx", hash);
     const extLink = etherscanLinkHtml(link);
     return copyableHtml(hash, "break-all") + extLink;
 }
@@ -101,9 +103,10 @@ function render() {
     $("tx-detail-to").innerHTML = txAddressHtml(tx.to, tx.toEns, toTitle);
 
     // Exact amount (full precision, copyable)
+    const detailSym = displaySymbol(tx.symbol);
     const exactStr = tx.exactValue
-        ? tx.exactValue + " " + tx.symbol
-        : tx.directionLabel + " " + tx.symbol;
+        ? tx.exactValue + " " + detailSym
+        : tx.directionLabel + " " + detailSym;
     $("tx-detail-value").innerHTML = copyableHtml(exactStr, "font-bold");
 
     // Native quantity (raw integer, copyable)
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ function render() {
     if (tokenContractSection && tokenContractEl) {
         if (tx.contractAddress) {
             const dot = addressDotHtml(tx.contractAddress);
-            const link = `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/token/${tx.contractAddress}`;
+            const link = explorerUrl("token", tx.contractAddress);
             tokenContractEl.innerHTML =
                 `<div class="flex items-center">${dot}` +
                 copyableHtml(tx.contractAddress, "break-all") +
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ function showDetailField(sectionId, contentId, value) {
 function populateOnChainDetails(txData) {
     // Block number
     if (txData.block_number != null) {
-        const blockLink = `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/block/${txData.block_number}`;
+        const blockLink = explorerUrl("block", String(txData.block_number));
         const blockSection = $("tx-detail-block-section");
         const blockEl = $("tx-detail-block");
         if (blockSection && blockEl) {
@@ -309,7 +312,7 @@ async function loadFullTxDetails(txHash, toAddress) {
                     // Token entry: show symbol on its own line, then address via shared renderer
                     const tokenSymbol = d.value.match(/^(\S+)\s*\(/)?.[1];
                     if (tokenSymbol) {
-                        detailsHtml += `<div class="font-bold">${escapeHtml(tokenSymbol)}</div>`;
+                        detailsHtml += `<div class="font-bold">${escapeHtml(displaySymbol(tokenSymbol))}</div>`;
                     }
                     detailsHtml += renderAddressHtml(d.address);
                 } else if (d.address) {

src/popup/views/txStatus.js

@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ const {
     attachCopyHandlers,
     copyableHtml,
     etherscanLinkHtml,
+    explorerUrl,
+    displaySymbol,
     clearViewStack,
 } = require("./helpers");
 const { TOKEN_BY_ADDRESS } = require("../../shared/tokenList");
-const { state, currentNetwork } = require("../../shared/state");
+const { state } = require("../../shared/state");
 const { getProvider } = require("../../shared/balances");
 const { log } = require("../../shared/log");
 
@@ -62,13 +64,13 @@ function toAddressHtml(address) {
 }
 
 function txHashHtml(hash) {
-    const link = `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/tx/${hash}`;
+    const link = explorerUrl("tx", hash);
     return copyableHtml(hash, "break-all") + etherscanLinkHtml(link);
 }
 
 function blockNumberHtml(blockNumber) {
     const num = String(blockNumber);
-    const link = `${currentNetwork().explorerUrl}/block/${num}`;
+    const link = explorerUrl("block", num);
     return copyableHtml(num) + etherscanLinkHtml(link);
 }
 
@@ -80,7 +82,10 @@ function startWait(txInfo, txHash, broadcastTime, pollNow) {
     endWait();
     const id = waitId;
 
-    const symbol = txInfo.token === "ETH" ? "ETH" : txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?";
+    const symbol =
+        txInfo.token === "ETH"
+            ? "ETH"
+            : displaySymbol(txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?");
     $("wait-tx-summary").textContent = txInfo.amount + " " + symbol;
     $("wait-tx-to").innerHTML = toAddressHtml(txInfo.to);
     $("wait-tx-hash").innerHTML = txHashHtml(txHash);
@@ -211,7 +216,10 @@ function restoreWait() {
 function showSuccess(txInfo, txHash, blockNumber) {
     endWait();
 
-    const symbol = txInfo.token === "ETH" ? "ETH" : txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?";
+    const symbol =
+        txInfo.token === "ETH"
+            ? "ETH"
+            : displaySymbol(txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?");
     state.viewData = {
         amount: txInfo.amount,
         symbol: symbol,
@@ -299,7 +307,10 @@ function renderSuccess() {
 function showError(txInfo, txHash, message) {
     endWait();
 
-    const symbol = txInfo.token === "ETH" ? "ETH" : txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?";
+    const symbol =
+        txInfo.token === "ETH"
+            ? "ETH"
+            : displaySymbol(txInfo.tokenSymbol || "?");
     state.viewData = {
         amount: txInfo.amount,
         symbol: symbol,

src/shared/html.js

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// HTML escaping for values interpolated into an innerHTML string.
+//
+// Every view in src/popup/views/ builds markup by string concatenation, so
+// this is the only thing standing between a value the wallet did not author
+// and the extension's own DOM. The values that reach it are attacker
+// controlled by design: an ERC-20's symbol() and name() are whatever the
+// contract chooses to return, an ENS name is whatever the resolver returns,
+// and both arrive through the block explorer with no schema.
+//
+// It escapes both quote characters as well as the tag delimiters, because
+// the popup interpolates into attribute values as well as into element
+// text — copyableHtml() writes data-copy="..." and etherscanLinkHtml()
+// writes href="...". A `<`/`>`-only escape leaves an unquoted-attribute
+// break-out intact, and the round trip through a detached element's
+// textContent that used to implement this was exactly that escape: the
+// HTML serializer only escapes `&`, `<`, `>` and U+00A0 in a text node,
+// since a text node has no idea it is about to be pasted inside quotes.
+//
+// Deliberately a pure string function with no DOM dependency: it is called
+// on every rendered row, it is unit-testable without a document, and it
+// cannot be affected by the state of a document that an attacker-supplied
+// string has already been written into.
+
+const HTML_ESCAPES = {
+    "&": "&amp;",
+    "<": "&lt;",
+    ">": "&gt;",
+    '"': "&quot;",
+    "'": "&#39;",
+};
+
+// `&` is escaped first by virtue of being in the same pass: a sequential
+// replace would re-escape the ampersands it had just introduced.
+function escapeHtml(s) {
+    if (s === null || s === undefined) return "";
+    return String(s).replace(/[&<>"']/g, (c) => HTML_ESCAPES[c]);
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    escapeHtml,
+};

src/shared/symbolDisplay.js

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+// The length bound on a token symbol as displayed.
+//
+// A symbol is whatever an ERC-20's symbol() returns and the wallet fetches
+// it from the block explorer, which imposes no length: src/shared/balances.js
+// takes `item.token.symbol` as given. A kilobyte-long symbol is a real
+// return value, and rendering it pushes every amount off the row, scrolls
+// the balance list past the screen, and hides the figures the user is there
+// to read.
+//
+// This is a layout bound, not a security control. Escaping is what makes a
+// hostile symbol inert (see src/shared/html.js), and isSpoofedSymbol() is
+// what catches one impersonating a known ticker; neither job belongs here
+// and neither is done here. Truncating an unescaped symbol would still be
+// an injection, just a shorter one.
+//
+// 12 characters, which is the bound lookupTokenInfo() in
+// src/shared/balances.js already applies when it stores a symbol read
+// straight off a contract; the explorer path was the one with no bound at
+// all. The longest symbol across the 512 entries of the bundled list is 10
+// (MSYRUPUSDP), so nothing the wallet ships as a real token is ever
+// truncated. The ellipsis is what tells the user the name they are looking
+// at is not the whole name — worth knowing before they send to it.
+
+const MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH = 12;
+
+// The placeholder for a token whose symbol the explorer did not report.
+// balances.js already substitutes this; repeated here so a symbol that
+// arrives empty from anywhere else displays the same way rather than as a
+// blank gap in the row.
+const UNKNOWN_SYMBOL = "???";
+
+function displaySymbol(symbol) {
+    const s = symbol === null || symbol === undefined ? "" : String(symbol);
+    if (s.length === 0) return UNKNOWN_SYMBOL;
+    if (s.length <= MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH) return s;
+    return s.slice(0, MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH - 1) + "…";
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+    displaySymbol,
+    MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH,
+    UNKNOWN_SYMBOL,
+};

tests/balanceLineEscaping.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+// balanceLine() is the row that issue #307 was reported against: every
+// screen that lists a holding renders through it, and the symbol it renders
+// is whatever an ERC-20's symbol() returned. This asserts against the
+// string it emits, which is what gets assigned to innerHTML.
+//
+// The browser half of the same claim — that a real Chrome renders that
+// string as text and puts no iframe in the popup DOM — is in
+// tests/e2e/run.js. This half runs inside the 20-second make test cap.
+
+"use strict";
+
+// helpers.js reaches for both at module scope through the modules it pulls
+// in. Neither is exercised by anything asserted here.
+global.chrome = {
+    storage: {
+        local: {
+            get: () => Promise.resolve({}),
+            set: () => Promise.resolve(),
+        },
+    },
+    runtime: { sendMessage: () => {} },
+};
+global.document = {
+    getElementById: () => null,
+    createElement: () => ({ style: {}, classList: { toggle() {} } }),
+    body: { prepend: () => {} },
+    addEventListener: () => {},
+};
+
+const { balanceLine } = require("../src/popup/views/helpers");
+const { MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH } = require("../src/shared/symbolDisplay");
+
+// The payload from the issue's reproduction, verbatim.
+const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
+    '<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
+    'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
+
+describe("balanceLine", () => {
+    test("emits a hostile symbol as text, not as an element", () => {
+        // Deliberately asserted on the escaping alone. The cap truncates
+        // this payload before its id attribute, so an assertion about the
+        // rest of the payload would pass on the cap and say nothing about
+        // the escape.
+        const html = balanceLine(HOSTILE_SYMBOL, 1, null, null);
+        expect(html).not.toContain("<iframe");
+        expect(html).toContain("&lt;iframe");
+    });
+
+    test("caps the symbol before rendering it", () => {
+        const html = balanceLine("A".repeat(4096), 1, null, null);
+        expect(html).toContain("A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH - 1) + "…");
+        expect(html).not.toContain("A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH + 1));
+    });
+
+    // The token id lands inside data-token="...", so a quote in it is a
+    // way out of the attribute and into a new one.
+    test("keeps a quote-bearing token id inside its attribute", () => {
+        const html = balanceLine("TKN", 1, null, '" onclick="alert(1)');
+        expect(html).not.toContain('onclick="');
+        expect(html).toContain('data-token="&quot; onclick=&quot;alert(1)"');
+    });
+
+    test("renders an ordinary holding unchanged", () => {
+        const html = balanceLine("USDC", 1.5, null, "0xabc");
+        expect(html).toContain("<span>USDC</span>");
+        expect(html).toContain("<span>1.5000</span>");
+        expect(html).toContain('data-token="0xabc"');
+    });
+});

tests/e2e/network.js

@@ -268,11 +268,15 @@ function ethCallResult(req, opts) {
     return ZERO_WORD;
 }
 
-function tokenObject() {
+// opts.tokenSymbolOverride is the hostile contract: set it and the explorer
+// reports that string as the token's symbol, exactly as it would for a token
+// whose symbol() returns markup. Read at request time, like every other
+// fixture switch, so a test can flip it and reopen the popup.
+function tokenObject(opts) {
     return {
         address_hash: STUB_TOKEN.address,
         address: STUB_TOKEN.address,
-        symbol: STUB_TOKEN.symbol,
+        symbol: (opts && opts.tokenSymbolOverride) || STUB_TOKEN.symbol,
         name: STUB_TOKEN.name,
         decimals: STUB_TOKEN.decimals,
         holders_count: STUB_TOKEN.holders,
@@ -281,7 +285,7 @@ function tokenObject() {
 }
 
 // One received ERC-20 transfer of 1.5 E2E to the address under test.
-function tokenTransferItems(address) {
+function tokenTransferItems(address, opts) {
     return [
         {
             transaction_hash: STUB_TX_HASH,
@@ -290,7 +294,7 @@ function tokenTransferItems(address) {
             from: { hash: STUB_COUNTERPARTY },
             to: { hash: address },
             total: { decimals: STUB_TOKEN.decimals, value: "1500000" },
-            token: tokenObject(),
+            token: tokenObject(opts),
         },
     ];
 }
@@ -317,11 +321,11 @@ function nativeTransactionItems(address) {
 // A holding of 1.5 E2E, in the shape src/shared/balances.js parses. Serving
 // this is what puts an ERC-20 in the send screen's token dropdown, which is
 // the only way the confirmation screen's ERC-20 path can be reached.
-function tokenBalanceItems() {
+function tokenBalanceItems(opts) {
     return [
         {
             value: "1500000",
-            token: tokenObject(),
+            token: tokenObject(opts),
         },
     ];
 }
@@ -596,6 +600,9 @@ function traceEnabled(raw) {
  * @param {string} [opts.tokenDecimalsOverride]  what decimals() answers for
  *   the stub token, in place of the value Blockscout reports for it. This is
  *   the token that lies about its scale; read at request time.
+ * @param {string} [opts.tokenSymbolOverride]  what the explorer reports as
+ *   the stub token's symbol, in place of "E2E". This is the token whose
+ *   symbol is markup; read at request time.
  * @param {boolean} [opts.seedReceipt]  answer eth_getTransactionReceipt with a
  *   confirmed receipt instead of null, so a wait screen resolves.
  * @returns {Promise<{waitForServiceWorkerTraffic: (ms: number) =>
@@ -674,14 +681,14 @@ async function installNetworkStubs(ctx, opts) {
                 return jsonResponse(route, {
                     items:
                         opts.seedTokenTransfer && addr
-                            ? tokenTransferItems(addr)
+                            ? tokenTransferItems(addr, opts)
                             : [],
                 });
             }
             if (/\/addresses\/0x[0-9a-fA-F]{40}\/token-balances$/.test(p)) {
                 return jsonResponse(
                     route,
-                    opts.seedTokenBalance ? tokenBalanceItems() : [],
+                    opts.seedTokenBalance ? tokenBalanceItems(opts) : [],
                 );
             }
             for (const hash of [STUB_TX_HASH, STUB_NATIVE_TX_HASH]) {

tests/e2e/run.js

@@ -2169,6 +2169,156 @@ test("a token that lies about decimals() at signing time broadcasts nothing (#30
     await visible(env.page, "#view-address");
 });
 
+// ------------------------------------------- hostile token symbol (#307)
+//
+// The reproduction from the issue, in the real browser against the real
+// shipped manifest. A token symbol is whatever the contract's symbol()
+// returns, the explorer passes it through, and the popup interpolated it
+// into an innerHTML string — so a token with 1,000 holders airdropped to
+// the victim could paint a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the
+// wallet's own UI, on the screens where the user types their password.
+//
+// The iframe count and the rendered text are asserted separately on
+// purpose, and neither substitutes for the other. `frame-src 'none'` stops
+// an injected frame LOADING; it does not stop the element existing, so a
+// zero iframe count is a claim about the escaping and about nothing else.
+// The literal capped text is the claim that the symbol was treated as a
+// string all the way down.
+//
+// The iframe count is taken on the address screen before anything is
+// clicked. That is where the injected frame lands first, and it covers the
+// viewport: with the escaping removed, every later step fails as a click
+// timeout ("<iframe id=\"pwn\"> intercepts pointer events") rather than as
+// anything that names the defect.
+
+// Verbatim from the issue's reproduction.
+const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
+    '<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
+    'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
+
+// What a correctly escaped and capped render of it reads as: the first
+// MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH-1 characters and an ellipsis. Spelled out rather than
+// imported, so a change to the cap has to be restated here deliberately
+// instead of being absorbed by a shared constant.
+const HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED = "<iframe id=" + "…";
+
+// Everything the popup can say about an injected symbol, read out of the
+// live DOM in one pass.
+function hostileSymbolState(page, tokenAddress) {
+    return page.evaluate((addr) => {
+        const row = document.querySelector(
+            '#wallet-list [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
+        );
+        // balanceLine() emits <div data-token><span><span>SYMBOL</span>…
+        // so this is the span the symbol itself was written into.
+        const symbolEl = row && row.firstElementChild.firstElementChild;
+        return {
+            rowFound: !!row,
+            rowText: row ? row.innerText.trim() : "",
+            symbolText: symbolEl ? symbolEl.textContent : "",
+            // The symbol's own span must hold text and nothing else. An
+            // element child here is the injection, whether or not it
+            // happens to be an iframe.
+            symbolElementChildren: symbolEl
+                ? symbolEl.querySelectorAll("*").length
+                : -1,
+            // The whole popup document, not just the row: an injected
+            // element positioned fixed can be anywhere in the tree.
+            iframes: document.querySelectorAll("iframe").length,
+            pwnPresent: !!document.getElementById("pwn"),
+        };
+    }, tokenAddress);
+}
+
+test("a token whose symbol() returns markup renders as text (#307)", async (env) => {
+    env.routeOpts.ethBalanceWei = toHexWei(FUNDED_ETH_WEI);
+    env.routeOpts.seedTokenBalance = true;
+    env.routeOpts.tokenSymbolOverride = HOSTILE_SYMBOL;
+    console.log(
+        "# stub token symbol() now returns: " + JSON.stringify(HOSTILE_SYMBOL),
+    );
+
+    // Close and reopen so the refresh that runs on open fetches balances
+    // with the hostile symbol in them.
+    await reopenPopup(env, "#view-address");
+    await env.page.waitForFunction(
+        (addr) =>
+            !!document.querySelector(
+                '#address-balances [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
+            ),
+        STUB_TOKEN.address,
+        { timeout: 60000 },
+    );
+    const onAddress = await env.page.evaluate(() => ({
+        iframes: document.querySelectorAll("iframe").length,
+        pwnPresent: !!document.getElementById("pwn"),
+    }));
+    console.log("# address-detail iframes = " + onAddress.iframes);
+    assert(
+        onAddress.iframes === 0 && !onAddress.pwnPresent,
+        "the address screen contains " +
+            onAddress.iframes +
+            " iframe(s) after a hostile symbol rendered (#307)",
+    );
+
+    await env.page.click("#btn-address-back");
+    await visible(env.page, "#view-main");
+    await visible(
+        env.page,
+        '#wallet-list [data-token="' + STUB_TOKEN.address + '"]',
+        60000,
+    );
+
+    const st = await hostileSymbolState(env.page, STUB_TOKEN.address);
+    console.log(
+        "# iframes in the popup DOM = " +
+            st.iframes +
+            " | #pwn present = " +
+            st.pwnPresent +
+            " | symbol = " +
+            JSON.stringify(st.symbolText),
+    );
+
+    assert(st.rowFound, "the hostile token never rendered a row at all");
+    assert(
+        st.iframes === 0,
+        "the popup DOM contains " + st.iframes + " iframe(s) (#307)",
+    );
+    assert(!st.pwnPresent, "the injected #pwn element is in the popup DOM");
+    assert(
+        st.symbolElementChildren === 0,
+        "the symbol span grew " +
+            st.symbolElementChildren +
+            " element children out of a token symbol (#307)",
+    );
+    assert(
+        st.symbolText === HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED,
+        "the symbol did not render as the literal capped text " +
+            JSON.stringify(HOSTILE_SYMBOL_DISPLAYED) +
+            ": " +
+            JSON.stringify(st.symbolText),
+    );
+    assert(
+        !st.rowText.includes("z-index"),
+        "the uncapped symbol reached the screen: " + JSON.stringify(st.rowText),
+    );
+
+    // Put the fixture back before the next test reads it, and let the
+    // stored balances be rewritten with the honest symbol.
+    env.routeOpts.tokenSymbolOverride = null;
+    await reopenPopup(env, "#view-main");
+    await env.page.waitForFunction(
+        (addr) => {
+            const row = document.querySelector(
+                '#wallet-list [data-token="' + addr + '"]',
+            );
+            return !!row && row.innerText.includes("E2E");
+        },
+        STUB_TOKEN.address,
+        { timeout: 60000 },
+    );
+});
+
 // ------------------------------------------- dApp round trips (#183)
 //
 // The seam. Everything above drives the popup on its own; this section is
@@ -3303,6 +3453,9 @@ async function main() {
         // something other than the value the same fixture reports through
         // Blockscout. The token that lies about its scale (#305).
         tokenDecimalsOverride: null,
+        // What the explorer reports as the stub token's symbol. The token
+        // whose symbol() returns markup (#307).
+        tokenSymbolOverride: null,
         // Whether eth_getTransactionReceipt confirms a transaction rather than
         // answering "not mined yet".
         seedReceipt: false,

tests/htmlEscape.test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+// The escape every view depends on, and the length bound on a displayed
+// token symbol. Both were added for #307, where a token whose symbol()
+// returned an <iframe> tag rendered that iframe inside the popup.
+
+const { escapeHtml } = require("../src/shared/html");
+const {
+    displaySymbol,
+    MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH,
+    UNKNOWN_SYMBOL,
+} = require("../src/shared/symbolDisplay");
+
+// The payload from the issue's reproduction, verbatim.
+const HOSTILE_SYMBOL =
+    '<iframe id="pwn" src="https://dapp.e2e.test/" ' +
+    'style="position:fixed;left:0;top:0;width:360px;height:600px;z-index:99999"></iframe>';
+
+describe("escapeHtml", () => {
+    test("escapes all five characters, quotes included", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml("&<>\"'")).toBe("&amp;&lt;&gt;&quot;&#39;");
+    });
+
+    // The regression this function was rewritten for. The previous
+    // implementation round-tripped through a detached div's textContent,
+    // and an HTML text node serializes a quote as itself — so a value with
+    // a quote in it broke straight out of data-copy="..." and href="...".
+    test("escapes quotes, which the textContent round trip did not", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml('a"b')).toBe("a&quot;b");
+        expect(escapeHtml("a'b")).toBe("a&#39;b");
+    });
+
+    test("does not double-escape an ampersand it just introduced", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml("&lt;")).toBe("&amp;lt;");
+        expect(escapeHtml("&amp;")).toBe("&amp;amp;");
+    });
+
+    test("leaves a string with nothing to escape untouched", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml("USDC")).toBe("USDC");
+        expect(escapeHtml("")).toBe("");
+    });
+
+    test("renders the hostile symbol inert", () => {
+        const out = escapeHtml(HOSTILE_SYMBOL);
+        expect(out).not.toContain("<");
+        expect(out).not.toContain(">");
+        expect(out).not.toContain('"');
+        expect(out).toContain("&lt;iframe");
+    });
+
+    // A quoted attribute is broken out of by a quote, a bare one by a
+    // space; both are closed here. Asserted as a whole attribute rather
+    // than character by character, because it is the attribute that has to
+    // survive, not the escape table.
+    test("a value carrying a quote stays inside its attribute", () => {
+        const evil = '" onload="alert(1)';
+        const attr = `data-copy="${escapeHtml(evil)}"`;
+        expect(attr).toBe('data-copy="&quot; onload=&quot;alert(1)"');
+        expect(attr.split('"').length - 1).toBe(2);
+    });
+
+    test("null and undefined render as nothing rather than as words", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml(null)).toBe("");
+        expect(escapeHtml(undefined)).toBe("");
+    });
+
+    test("coerces a non-string without losing the escape", () => {
+        expect(escapeHtml(42)).toBe("42");
+        expect(escapeHtml({ toString: () => "<b>" })).toBe("&lt;b&gt;");
+    });
+});
+
+describe("displaySymbol", () => {
+    test("passes every symbol in the bundled list through unchanged", () => {
+        const { TOKENS } = require("../src/shared/tokenList");
+        for (const t of TOKENS) {
+            expect([t.address, displaySymbol(t.symbol)]).toEqual([
+                t.address,
+                t.symbol,
+            ]);
+        }
+    });
+
+    test("caps an over-long symbol and marks it as truncated", () => {
+        const long = "A".repeat(4096);
+        const out = displaySymbol(long);
+        expect(out.length).toBe(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH);
+        expect(out.endsWith("…")).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    test("keeps a symbol of exactly the cap intact", () => {
+        const exact = "A".repeat(MAX_SYMBOL_LENGTH);
+        expect(displaySymbol(exact)).toBe(exact);
+    });
+
+    test("substitutes a placeholder for an absent symbol", () => {
+        expect(displaySymbol("")).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
+        expect(displaySymbol(null)).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
+        expect(displaySymbol(undefined)).toBe(UNKNOWN_SYMBOL);
+    });
+
+    // The cap is a layout bound and nothing more: it must not be mistaken
+    // for the thing that makes a symbol safe to render. A short hostile
+    // symbol passes through it untouched, and is inert only because the
+    // caller escapes it afterwards.
+    test("does not sanitize — a short markup symbol survives it verbatim", () => {
+        expect(displaySymbol("<img src=x>")).toBe("<img src=x>");
+        expect(escapeHtml(displaySymbol("<img src=x>"))).toBe(
+            "&lt;img src=x&gt;",
+        );
+    });
+});

tests/manifest.test.js

@@ -13,6 +13,33 @@
 // an exact match on the token set is what keeps the next edit from
 // smuggling one in alongside.
 //
+// It is also the anti-regression check for #307. The policy used to declare
+// script-src and object-src and nothing else, which left every directive
+// that does not fall back to them — and, absent default-src, every one that
+// does — wide open: a hostile ERC-20 symbol that reached innerHTML could
+// load a full-viewport cross-origin iframe over the wallet's own UI. The
+// escaping in src/shared/html.js is the primary fix; default-src is what
+// stops the next escape that slips from reaching the network.
+//
+// Every directive below is pinned exactly, because each of the four
+// loosenings is load-bearing and none of them may grow:
+//
+//   style-src 'unsafe-inline'  src/popup/index.html and the view helpers
+//                              use style="..." attributes throughout, which
+//                              CSP blocks without it. Chrome enforces this
+//                              on attributes, not just <style> blocks, and
+//                              Firefox has never implemented style-src-attr,
+//                              so there is no narrower spelling available.
+//   img-src data:              blockies are data: PNGs assigned to img.src.
+//   connect-src https: http:   the RPC endpoint is user-configurable, and a
+//                              local node over http://127.0.0.1 is a
+//                              supported configuration — the Firefox e2e
+//                              suite runs on exactly that.
+//   frame-src/form-action/base-uri  named rather than inherited: form-action
+//                              and base-uri do not fall back to default-src
+//                              at all, and frame-src 'none' is what kills
+//                              the reported attack outright.
+//
 // build.js copies these files to dist/<target>/manifest.json verbatim, so
 // what is asserted here is what ships.
 
@@ -21,8 +48,22 @@ const path = require("path");
 
 const MANIFEST_DIR = path.join(__dirname, "..", "manifest");
 
-const EXPECTED_SCRIPT_SRC = ["'self'", "'wasm-unsafe-eval'"];
-const EXPECTED_OBJECT_SRC = ["'self'"];
+const EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES = {
+    "default-src": ["'self'"],
+    "script-src": ["'self'", "'wasm-unsafe-eval'"],
+    "object-src": ["'self'"],
+    "style-src": ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
+    "img-src": ["'self'", "data:"],
+    "connect-src": ["'self'", "http:", "https:"],
+    "frame-src": ["'none'"],
+    "form-action": ["'none'"],
+    "base-uri": ["'none'"],
+};
+
+// Directives that fetch script. Nothing that can execute code may name a
+// remote source, an eval form, or an inline form; 'wasm-unsafe-eval' is the
+// single deliberate exception and it is pinned above.
+const SCRIPT_DIRECTIVES = ["default-src", "script-src", "object-src"];
 
 const FORBIDDEN_SOURCES = [
     "'unsafe-eval'",
@@ -53,26 +94,31 @@ function parseCsp(policy) {
 
 function assertPolicy(policy) {
     const directives = parseCsp(policy);
-    expect(Object.keys(directives).sort()).toEqual([
-        "object-src",
-        "script-src",
-    ]);
-    expect(directives["script-src"].slice().sort()).toEqual(
-        EXPECTED_SCRIPT_SRC,
+    // Exact, in both directions: a directive that appears here and not in
+    // EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES is an unreviewed addition, and one that
+    // disappears silently reopens whatever it was closing.
+    expect(Object.keys(directives).sort()).toEqual(
+        Object.keys(EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES).sort(),
     );
-    expect(directives["object-src"].slice().sort()).toEqual(
-        EXPECTED_OBJECT_SRC,
-    );
-    for (const source of FORBIDDEN_SOURCES) {
-        expect(directives["script-src"]).not.toContain(source);
-        expect(directives["object-src"]).not.toContain(source);
+    for (const [name, sources] of Object.entries(EXPECTED_DIRECTIVES)) {
+        expect([name, directives[name].slice().sort()]).toEqual([
+            name,
+            sources.slice().sort(),
+        ]);
+    }
+    for (const name of SCRIPT_DIRECTIVES) {
+        for (const source of FORBIDDEN_SOURCES) {
+            expect(name + " " + directives[name].join(" ")).not.toContain(
+                " " + source,
+            );
+        }
     }
 }
 
 describe("shipped Content Security Policy", () => {
     // MV3 takes an object and applies extension_pages to the popup and the
     // background service worker, which is where libsodium runs.
-    test("chrome MV3 allows WASM and nothing else beyond 'self'", () => {
+    test("chrome MV3 ships the pinned policy, default-src included", () => {
         const csp = readManifest("chrome").content_security_policy;
         expect(typeof csp).toBe("object");
         expect(Object.keys(csp)).toEqual(["extension_pages"]);
@@ -87,7 +133,7 @@ describe("shipped Content Security Policy", () => {
     // Firefox before 106 rejects an MV2 policy string that omits
     // object-src and falls back to its own default, discarding everything
     // declared here. Same policy as Chrome, different manifest shape.
-    test("firefox MV2 allows WASM and nothing else beyond 'self'", () => {
+    test("firefox MV2 ships the pinned policy, default-src included", () => {
         const csp = readManifest("firefox").content_security_policy;
         expect(typeof csp).toBe("string");
         assertPolicy(csp);