tl;dr Apple Safari for OS X was prone to URI spoofing vulnerability (and more general a user interface spoofing). Apple released security updates for Safari 9 on OS X and assigned CVE-2015-5764. Accidentally this vulnerability was also present in iOS. Instant demo In Safari up to 8.0.8 : * go to https://asanso.github.io/CVE-2015-5764/file0.html * click "click me!" * notice the address bar being "data:text/html,%3CH1%3EHi!!%3C/H1%3E" * go back using the browser button * click "click me!" * notice the address bar being http://www.intothesymmetry.com/CVE-2015-5764/file0.php !!!! You can find the details in http://intothesymmetry.blogspot.it/2015/09/apple-safari-uri-spoofing-cve-2015-5764.html regards antonio