slides/xss-csrf/csrf_intro.xml
What is CSRF?
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CSRF Overview (1/3)
  • • Exploits the trust a site has for a particular user
  • • Generally involves Web sites that rely completely on the identification of the user for security
  • • Involves "tricking" a user into unknowingly sending an HTTP request of the attacker's choosing
  • • Represents the best reason to disable register_globals
  • • No easy solution - depends on application design