diff --git a/frontend/packages/shared/src/modal.js b/frontend/packages/shared/src/modal.js
index a0bb2471..ef0a7a52 100644
--- a/frontend/packages/shared/src/modal.js
+++ b/frontend/packages/shared/src/modal.js
@@ -105,7 +105,19 @@ class HiveDialog extends HTMLElement {
     root.append(box);
 
     this.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
-      if (dismissable && e.target === this) done(null);
+      // `e.target` is retargeted to `this` (the host) for ANY click that
+      // originated inside the shadow tree, once it bubbles out to a
+      // listener attached on the host itself — per spec, retargeting
+      // applies to every ancestor outside the shadow tree, and the host
+      // element's own light-DOM-side listeners count as outside. So
+      // `e.target === this` was true for every click inside `.box` too
+      // (title, message, a bare checkbox row with no button to consume
+      // it first), not just genuine backdrop clicks — dismissing the
+      // whole dialog on, say, a checkbox click. `composedPath()[0]` is
+      // the true original target, unaffected by retargeting: it's `this`
+      // only when nothing inside the shadow tree was actually under the
+      // cursor, i.e. a real backdrop click.
+      if (dismissable && e.composedPath()[0] === this) done(null);
     });
     document.addEventListener('keydown', onKey, true);