Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) is an attack that impersonates a trust user and sends a website unwanted commands ; this can be done, for example, by including malicious parameters in a URL behind a link that purports to go somewhere else:1.

<img src="https://www.example.com/index.php?action=delete&id=123" />

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References

  1. MDN. “Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/CSRF . (Accessed: [2025-05-17 Sat 14:54]). ↩︎

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