A CSRF attack is a serious Web security threat that, combined with XSS, can be lethal. Learn about the CSRF attack’s anatomy, along with mitigation methods.

It’s so popular that it’s mostly used as the de facto web server framework for Node.js. Since Express is a minimalistic web framework, it doesn’t support any anti-CSRF measure by default (unlike ...

Unlike an XSS attack, which tricks the site into uploading malicious code, CSRF simply has the site execute legitimate commands–just not commands issued by the user.