Collected research

A story that diggs itself

ha.ckers.org web application security lab

Commentary on Digger's self-digging story, used to explain cross-site request forgery: a third-party page redirects an authenticated user into a site function, which then executes as that user. Argues that requiring POST instead of GET is a common but ineffective fix, easily defeated by injected HTML or by frameworks that ignore the method.

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ha.ckers.org web application security lab

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ha.ckers.org

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In the archive

• Collected in the 2006 research round

Related sources

• Digger's blog

Tags

• csrf
• case-study
• abuse-of-functionality
• mitigation
• http
• filter-bypass
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a04-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

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