CSRF

Application Security

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

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Welcome to Secumantra! In this post we will understand what Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is and will try to understand this typical CORS error we face frequently while accessing some URL or when working with APIs. You might have seen this kind of error many times on your browser console – In short, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing…

Application Security

CSRF Attack and CSRF Tokens

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Welcome to Secumantra! In this post we will understand Cross-Site Request Forgery attack, commonly known as CSRF or XSRF attack. It is one of the common attacks observed for web applications and has been there in OWASP Top Ten for many years. Introduction and OWASP Overview In a CSRF attack an end user’s browser is…