CSRF
Let users who visit the website to perform actions they aren't supposed to do.
Client side request forgery allows an attacker to induce users to perform actions that they do not intend to perform.
Deliver a CSRF Exploit
Reflected XSS
Attacker will place the malicious HTML onto a web site that they control.
GET method
Example:
Common CSRF vulnerabilities
Some applications correctly validate the token when the request uses the POST method but skip the validation when the GET method is used.
Some applications correctly validate the token when it is present but skip the validation if the token is omitted.
Some applications do not validate that the token belongs to the same session as the user who is making the request.
Some applications do tie the CSRF token to a cookie, but not to the same cookie that is used to track sessions.
Example:
Some applications do not maintain any server-side record of tokens that have been issued.
Cookie SomeSite=Lax bypass via method override.
Change POST method to Get with "_method" parameter.
Example:
/change-email?email=attacker@attack.net&_method=POST
Defenses
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