Mitigation of CSRF Attack

Nikunj Tandel, Kalpesh Patel

Abstract: Web Application is used in our day to day life and there are several vulnerabilities in web application as per OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project). Most of the developers are unaware about the CSRF attack therefore many web application are still vulnerable from CSRF attack. Cross Site request forgery attack occur when the malicious web site forces a users browser to send unauthorized request and perform unwanted action on a trusted web site without users awareness. In this paper we will study about the CSRF attack and existing mechanisms for mitigating CSRF attack and also compare our approach with existing approaches.

Keywords: OWASP, Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF, web application vulnerability, Mitigation techniques

How to Cite?: Nikunj Tandel, Kalpesh Patel, "Mitigation of CSRF Attack", Volume 3 Issue 6, June 2014, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 1416-1420, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=20131846, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/20131846