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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

A web vulnerability that tricks an authenticated user's browser into making unintended requests to a trusted site, such as changing account settings or transferring funds.

vulnerability web
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Command Injection Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Directory Traversal IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) LFI (Local File Inclusion) Open Redirect RFI (Remote File Inclusion) SQL Injection (SQLi) SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) SSTI (Server-Side Template Injection) XML External Entity (XXE) XPath Injection

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