CSRF-ATTACK-PREVENTION-GUIDE

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A cross-site request forgery is a common form of web-security attack. The threat actor forces authenticated users to send malicious requests to the website that would execute the hacker‘s intended actions. The attack, also known as session riding or a one-click attack, violates the same-origin policy by allowing the attacker partial or complete control of user sessions. Since the victim remains the recipient of the server’s response, most CSRF attacks do not target data extraction; instead, they intend to interfere with the application’s behaviour by targeting state-changing functionality.

A successful CSRF attack is dependent upon several factors, including

Cookie-Based Session Handling — If the application relies solely on cookies to validate the origin of requests, an attacker can orchestrate social engineering attacks to assume the user’s identity and further exploit it to submit malicious requests. Installing malicious software on the user‘s machinePredictable Request Parameters — By conveniently speculating or obtaining values of the parameters used by a specific request, attackers can craft malicious requests to trigger unstable functionalities of an application.Relevant Action — A web application contains critical actions such as modifying privileged users‘ permissions…