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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition
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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

by Daniel Sipos
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
15h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CSRF attacks are another popular way that applications can be overtaken, by forcing a user with elevated privileges to execute unwanted actions on their own site. Usually this happens when certain URLs on the application trigger a process simply by being accessed through the browser (and by being authenticated): for example, deleting a resource.

The most important thing to consider in this respect is to never have such actions happening simply by accessing a URL. To help with this, we have the powerful Form API, which already had token-based CSRF protection embedded from previous versions of Drupal. So basically you can create forms whose submit handlers perform the potentially damaging actions (as we learned ...

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