Cross-Site Request Forgery
Explore how Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks manipulate authenticated users into unintended actions on vulnerable web apps. Learn to identify link-based, form-based, and image-based CSRF methods, and apply mitigation strategies to protect web applications from these security risks.
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Overview
Technological advancements have led to the development of rather sophisticated attacks. With each passing day, adversaries are mitigated, but that doesn’t stop them; they come up with new ways of circumventing security. One such act of cleverness, at least when it was first discovered, is the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack.