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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications
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Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

by Tomcy John
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
268 pages
7h 36m
English
Packt Publishing
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CSRF

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(CSRF)) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated. CSRF attacks specifically target state-changing requests, not theft of data, since the attacker has no way to see the response to the forged request.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) considers CSRF as one of the most common security risks for web applications. OWASP publishes a list (known as the OWASP Top 10) every year, highlighting the top 10 security risks plaguing web applications—it considers CSRF to be in fifth position.

In Spring Security, CSRF is enabled by default. If needs be ...

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