Protection Against Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks
Understand how to protect Laravel applications against cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks by using CSRF tokens. Learn the attack methods, their potential impact, and how Laravel's middleware and token system defend against unauthorized requests to keep user data safe.
Introduction
The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack can be defined as an attempt to generate a malicious request on behalf of an authenticated user’s session.
Ways to introduce a CSRF attack
Social engineering: The attack can bluff ...