Electron security

Skill Sheshiyer/skill-clusters/skills/electron-security

The Electron hardening checklist — context isolation, sandbox, no nodeIntegration, strict CSP, navigation/window.open allowlists, IPC input validation, and safe handling of remote content. USE WHEN auditing or hardening an Electron app, reviewing webPreferences, or before shipping. Follows Electron's official security recommendations.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add Sheshiyer/skill-clusters --skill electron-security

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SKILL.md

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Electron Security

The renderer runs web content with a powerful process behind it; a single XSS in a misconfigured window can become full RCE on the user's machine. This is the checklist (aligned with Electron's official "Security" guidance).

Window configuration (every BrowserWindow)

✅ contextIsolation: true — never disable.
✅ nodeIntegration: false (and nodeIntegrationInWorker/InSubFrames: false).
✅ sandbox: true.
✅ webSecurity: true (never disable to "fix" CORS).
❌ No @electron/remote.

Content & navigation

Strict CSP via response headers or <meta> — no unsafe-inline/unsafe-eval; allowlist sources.
Allowlist navigation: handle will-navigate and setWindowOpenHandler — deny by default, open external URLs in the user's browser (shell.openExternal after validating the URL).
Only load content you trust. Prefer bundled local files; if you must load remote content, treat it as hostile and never give it Node/IPC power.
Validate any URL passed to shell.openExternal (no file:/arbitrary schemes).

IPC & data

Validate every IPC argument in main (type, range, path). The renderer is the attacker.
No path traversal: resolve and confine file paths to expected roots.
Don't expose privileged operations as generic ("runCommand") bridge methods.

Process & supply chain

Keep Electron up to date — you inherit Chromium/V8 CVEs; track the supported release line.
Audit dependencies (renderer deps run in the page); pin and review native modules.
Set app.enableSandbox() early; consider a fuse/@electron/fuses to disable runAsNode etc.

Pre-ship checklist

All windows: contextIsolation✓ nodeIntegration✗ sandbox✓ webSecurity✓
Minimal typed contextBridge API; no raw ipc/Node on window
Strict CSP; navigation + window.open deny-by-default
All IPC inputs validated in main
Electron on a current supported version; deps audited
App signed + notarized (electron-builder-packaging)

Guardrails

If any item above is unchecked, the app is not ship-ready. Hardening is not optional for an app that ships Chromium + Node to end users.

What ships with it

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Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most security skills give in 541 tokens

Counted across 648 of the 828 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07

Parameterize all database queriesin 68 of 648, across 51 files
Hash passwords using bcrypt, scrypt, or argon2in 49 of 648, across 36 files
Apply rate limiting to authentication endpointsin 48 of 648, across 24 files
Configure security headersin 35 of 648, across 19 files
Validate all inputsin 32 of 648, across 24 files
Validate all external input at the system boundaryin 29 of 648, across 19 files
Run containers as a non-root userin 28 of 648, across 15 files
Use httponly secure samesite cookies for sessionsin 26 of 648, across 15 files
Run dependency audits before every releasein 21 of 648, across 10 files
Encode output to prevent cross-site scriptingin 21 of 648, across 11 files
Copy dependencies before source codein 20 of 648, across 9 files
Store secrets in environment variablesin 20 of 648, across 18 files

Said here and by no other author read

keep web security enabled
confine file paths to expected roots
keep Electron up to date

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