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Full Stack Python Security
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Full Stack Python Security

by Dennis Byrne
August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 50m
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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16 Cross-site request forgery

This chapter covers

  • Managing session ID usage
  • Following state management conventions
  • Validating the Referer header
  • Sending, receiving, and verifying CSRF tokens

This chapter examines another large family of attacks, cross-site request forgery (CSRF). A CSRF attack aims to trick the victim into sending a forged request to a vulnerable website. CSRF resistance boils down to whether or not a system can distinguish a forged request from a user’s intentional requests. Secure systems do this via request headers, response headers, cookies, and state management conventions; defense in depth is not optional.

16.1 What is request forgery?

Suppose Alice deploys admin.alice.com, the administrative counterpart of her online ...

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