[SC-L] Announcement: The Cross-site Request Forgery FAQ

bugtraq at cgisecurity.net bugtraq at cgisecurity.net
Thu Jan 18 14:13:20 EST 2007


> >  URL: The Cross-site Request Forgery FAQ 
> >  http://www.cgisecurity.com/articles/csrf-faq.shtml 
> 
> Regarding, "Who discovered CSRF?", the attack is mentioned in section
> 4.3.5 of RFC 2109, which dates back February 1997.  Of course, the
> suggested remedies look rather strange today.

I hadn't seen that I'll add a brief note about that. 

> 
> You characterisation of cross-site scripting attacks ("Cross-Site
> Scripting exploits the trust that a user has for the website or
> application.") is somewhat misleading, unless one reads "client" for
> "user".

Yes that wording is much better. Updated thanks for pointing it out.

- Robert




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