Is It Possible to Sandbox JavaScript Running In the Browser?

Question

I\'m wondering if it\'s possible to sandbox JavaScript running in the browser to prevent access to features that are normally available to JavaScript code running in an HTML

Answer 1

An improved version of @RyanOHara's web workers sandbox code, in a single file (no extra eval.js file is necessary).

function safeEval(untrustedCode)
    {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject)
    {

    var blobURL = URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([
        "(",
        function ()
            {
            var _postMessage = postMessage;
            var _addEventListener = addEventListener;

            (function (obj)
                {
                "use strict";

                var current = obj;
                var keepProperties = [
                    // required
                    'Object', 'Function', 'Infinity', 'NaN', 'undefined', 'caches', 'TEMPORARY', 'PERSISTENT', 
                    // optional, but trivial to get back
                    'Array', 'Boolean', 'Number', 'String', 'Symbol',
                    // optional
                    'Map', 'Math', 'Set',
                ];

                do {
                    Object.getOwnPropertyNames(current).forEach(function (name) {
                        if (keepProperties.indexOf(name) === -1) {
                            delete current[name];
                        }
                    });

                    current = Object.getPrototypeOf(current);
                }
                while (current !== Object.prototype);
                })(this);

            _addEventListener("message", function (e)
            {
            var f = new Function("", "return (" + e.data + "\n);");
            _postMessage(f());
            });
            }.toString(),
        ")()"], {type: "application/javascript"}));

    var worker = new Worker(blobURL);

    URL.revokeObjectURL(blobURL);

    worker.onmessage = function (evt)
        {
        worker.terminate();
        resolve(evt.data);
        };

    worker.onerror = function (evt)
        {
        reject(new Error(evt.message));
        };

    worker.postMessage(untrustedCode);

    setTimeout(function () {
        worker.terminate();
        reject(new Error('The worker timed out.'));
        }, 1000);
    });
    }

Test it:

https://jsfiddle.net/kp0cq6yw/

var promise = safeEval("1+2+3");

promise.then(function (result) {
      alert(result);
      });

It should output 6 (tested in Chrome and Firefox).