Tag: CSRF token

  • CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) and Mitigation

    Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is a sophisticated attack that exploits the trust a website has in a user’s browser. CSRF targets users who are authenticated and logged into a web application, manipulating them into performing unintended actions without their consent. Since the browser automatically includes the user’s authentication credentials (such as cookies) in every request…