# Sending a Kibana dashboard to React via iframe: security considerations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932 "2020-03-31T18:10:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kadowning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kadowning](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kadowning)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932/1 "2020-03-31T18:10:53Z")

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Hi all -  
Hoping someone might be able to suggest the best way to transfer a session cookie when I present the Kibana dashboard as an iFrame within my React component? Or must I disable security entirely to make this work?  
Thank you

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Gregory](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/larry_gregory/32/34969_2.png) [@Larry\_Gregory](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Larry_Gregory)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932/2 "2020-03-31T20:13:55Z")

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Hey @kadowning, welcome to the discussion boards!

Can you be a little more specific? Are you trying to simulate anonymous access to a dashboard by automatically presenting a session cookie?

Lots of other users have put a reverse-proxy in front of Kibana to automatically add auth headers (example: [Auto-authenticating to iframe-embedded Kibana dashboard](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/auto-authenticating-to-iframe-embedded-kibana-dashboard/46091/4))

We also have an open issue to better support these types of use cases here: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18331](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/18331)

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**Author:** ![kadowning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kadowning](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kadowning)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932/3 "2020-04-03T22:04:14Z")

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Thank you - grateful, Larry!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2020, 10:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-a-kibana-dashboard-to-react-via-iframe-security-considerations/225932/4 "2020-05-01T22:04:14Z")

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