Generating CSRF tokens from account "A," stripping the first character, and attempting to use it as the token for account "B" proved to be successful.

Cross site request forgery — also known as CSRF or XSRF — is one of the Web-related security threats on the OWASP top-ten list. The main principle behind a CSRF attack is exploitation of a ...

CSRF takes place when attackers trick users into taking an action but forge another operation in the background. For example, a user might click on a malicious link, ...

Security researcher Petko Petkov has revealed a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in Gmail that makes it possible for a malicious web site to surreptitiously add a filter to a user's Gmail ...

Yesterday, Vicente Aguilera Diaz from Internet Security Auditors released proof of concept of a CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) vulnerability in Google's Gmail, which he originally communicated ...

After Cross Site Scripting (XSS), the second most common web application security exploit is probably one you haven’t heard of: Cross Site Request Forgery (or CSRF for short). This little-known ...

The Quarkus team released version 2.13.0, a new release that integrates RESTEasy APIs with an integrated control against CSRF attacks, making web applications more resilient against certain types ...

Koster’s vulnerabilities, a CSRF that led to a denial of service and a XSS bug, were finally fixed in 4.7.3, back in March but the CSRF has lingered in WordPress until now.

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The issue stemmed from a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that existed in PayPal.me, a site the company launched last year to let its users request money; similar to what Venmo ...