Lesson 5: Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) refers to, if your site uses GET requests to submit data to the server then hackers can construct malicious requests to have your users submit unintended data or misleading information on your site. We will learn how to perform basic CSRF, How to protect ourselves by adopting various techniques, and lastly test ourselves to see if we have grasped the concept of CSRF or not.

Links in the video: CSRF Attacks, XSRF or Sea-Surf - https://www.acunetix.com/websitesecurity/csrf-attacks/?utm_source=hacksplaining&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=articlelink Using the Same-Site Cookie Attribute to Prevent CSRF Attacks - https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/same-site-cookie-attribute-prevent-cross-site-request-forgery/