A report on CSRF security challenges & prevention techniques

Abstract

Now a days, The world wide web is becoming the town square for the global village of today and we, the netizens of globe are becoming essential part of cyberspace. The use of Internet helps in making the journey of our life easy and comfortable but as we all know that every “pros” has some “cons” attached with it, therefore some precautions need to be taken to make the internet life more secure and fruitful in every aspect. In recent scenario, vulnerability is increasing by leaps and bound and web services are often deployed with critical application security faults that prone them to malicious attack and out of all these vulnerability, the most common web application vulnerability is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). In this paper, we explore the recent challenges faced in CSRF attack, different ways to launch CSR attack and its prevention techniques.