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Scanning sites with anti-CSRF tokens

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Scanning sites with anti-CSRF tokens enabled is a really hard task to achieve, since the CSRF token implementation can be really strict and make the whole scan useless.

I want to perform these tasks:

  • Identify the top 3 methods for CSRF (hidden form param, cookie? special header?)
  • Identify the top 3 implementations (maybe: Django, Ruby, Zend-PHP) and crea…

Scanning sites with anti-CSRF tokens enabled is a really hard task to achieve, since the CSRF token implementation can be really strict and make the whole scan useless.

I want to perform these tasks:

  • Identify the top 3 methods for CSRF (hidden form param, cookie? special header?)
  • Identify the top 3 implementations (maybe: Django, Ruby, Zend-PHP) and create test applications
  • Write tests that scan these three test applications
  • Modify the framework to PASS these tests
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