From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering
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Cross-site request forgery prevention
From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 3 Security Architecture and Engineering
Cross-site request forgery prevention
- Another danger facing web applications is the threat of cross-site request forgery. These attacks are similar to cross-site scripting attacks, but they're even more dangerous. And first, one quick note on terminology. Cross-site request forgery also goes by two different acronyms. Some people call it CSRF, while others use the XSRF acronym. Others even pronounce the acronym and call it sea surf. All of these terms refer to the same attack. As you may recall, cross-site scripting attacks occur when an attacker exploits a third-party website to include scripts written by the attacker in input shown to other users. The user's web browser then executes that code, when it visits the site. Cross-site request forgery attacks go a step further and prey upon the fact that users often have multiple sites open at the same time and they may be logged into many different sites in different browser tabs. As you may have noticed…
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