Require JWT trust verification for guest embedded sessions

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The glide.embedded.session.trust.verification.enabled property determines whether guest embeddable sessions require JSON Web Tokens (JWT) validation for third-party origin verification.

This property requires JWT validation to confirm that guest embeddable session requests come from trusted third-party websites.

To configure this property:

  1. Navigate to /sys_properties_list.do on the instance.
  2. Verify glide.embedded.session.trust.verification.enabled exists and is set to true.

More information

Attribute

Description

Configuration name

glide.embedded.session.trust.verification.enabled

Configuration type

System Properties ( /sys_properties_list.do)

Data type

Boolean

Recommended value

true

Default value

true

Fallback value

false

Category

Session management

Security risk

  • Severity score: 5.3
  • CVSS rating: Medium
  • Security risk details:

When this property is inactive, the platform establishes guest embedded sessions for Web embeddables components without JWT verification. The JWT is designed to confirm that requests originate from trusted third party websites.

Functional impact

When enabled, any third-party website embedding guest components must implement the JWT-based token callback in its global code. See the Web embeddables guest user documentation for more details.

Sites that follow the documented setup are unaffected. JWT verification is the default behavior for this feature. Sites relying on the undocumented fallback behavior (proceeding without a token) must implement the callback before its embedded guest sessions can be established once enforcement begins.

Dependencies and prerequisites

Only applicable when the web components for guest embeddables (com.sn_guest_components) plugin is active. This property has no effect, and this control does not evaluate it, on instances where the plugin is not installed and active.

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