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HTML5 is one of the emerging technologies for next generation web applications and has brought a lot of new features to the web. HTML5 applications are also widely used in the mobile app world. But along with the features, HTML5 has brought various new attack vectors as well.

Before going ahead with the security concepts of cross domain messaging, let us understand the basics of how cross domain messaging is implemented in HTML5.