Hack Proof Your Asp.Net Application Part 3 (Cross Site Request Forgery)
Introduction:
This is part -3 of my series Secure your Asp.Net Applications. In this article, I will describe what exactly Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is and how hacker exploit it and how we can prevent from CSRF attack.
Background:
You can read my previous article of this series from :
- Hack proof your asp.net applications from SQL Injection
- Hack proof your asp.net applications from XSS Attack
Cross Site Scripting:
cross site request forgery is also known as one click attack, sea surf and session riding and abbreviated as CSRF. CSRF attack is kind of secuirty exploit attack in which attacker uses the authentication of the victim on victim's browser.