Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Allowed

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Abstraction: Compound · Status: Stable

The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

14159 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

GHSA-F54P-X8GH-X27V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-26 09:31 – Updated: 2026-04-01 18:36
VLAI
Details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Shahjada Download Manager allows Cross Site Request Forgery. This issue affects Download Manager: from n/a through 3.3.24.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-60093"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-09-26T09:15:34Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Shahjada Download Manager allows Cross Site Request Forgery. This issue affects Download Manager: from n/a through 3.3.24.",
  "id": "GHSA-f54p-x8gh-x27v",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T18:36:21Z",
  "published": "2025-09-26T09:31:12Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-60093"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/download-manager/vulnerability/wordpress-download-manager-plugin-3-3-24-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F56Q-M7XC-R227

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 03:30 – Updated: 2022-05-17 03:30
VLAI
Details

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Contact Form Fields module before 6.x-2.3 for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that delete fields via unspecified vectors.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-3363"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2015-04-21T16:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Contact Form Fields module before 6.x-2.3 for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that delete fields via unspecified vectors.",
  "id": "GHSA-f56q-m7xc-r227",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T03:30:21Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:30:21Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3363"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.drupal.org/node/2407147"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.drupal.org/node/2407357"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/29/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72118"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}

GHSA-F57V-GPPG-633M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-22 18:31 – Updated: 2026-04-01 18:33
VLAI
Details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a1post A1POST.BG Shipping for Woo allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects A1POST.BG Shipping for Woo: from n/a through 1.5.1.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-27012"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-02-22T16:15:32Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in a1post A1POST.BG Shipping for Woo allows Privilege Escalation. This issue affects A1POST.BG Shipping for Woo: from n/a through 1.5.1.",
  "id": "GHSA-f57v-gppg-633m",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T18:33:44Z",
  "published": "2025-02-22T18:31:32Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27012"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/a1post-bg-shipping-for-woocommerce/vulnerability/wordpress-a1post-bg-shipping-for-woo-plugin-1-5-1-csrf-to-privilege-escalation-vulnerability?_s_id=cve"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F58F-3RR4-4P93

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-06-16 00:00 – Updated: 2022-06-25 00:01
VLAI
Details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Image Slider by NextCode plugin <= 1.1.2 at WordPress allows deleting slides.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-29439"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-06-15T16:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Image Slider by NextCode plugin \u003c= 1.1.2 at WordPress allows deleting slides.",
  "id": "GHSA-f58f-3rr4-4p93",
  "modified": "2022-06-25T00:01:02Z",
  "published": "2022-06-16T00:00:24Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29439"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/baslider/wordpress-image-slider-by-nextcode-plugin-1-1-2-slider-deletion-via-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wordpress.org/plugins/baslider"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F59Q-VQH7-8J8M

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-27 03:30 – Updated: 2025-10-27 03:30
VLAI
Details

A security flaw has been discovered in ajayrandhawa User-Management-PHP-MYSQL web up to fedcf58797bf2791591606f7b61fdad99ad8bff1. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-12202"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-10-27T02:15:46Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "A security flaw has been discovered in ajayrandhawa User-Management-PHP-MYSQL web up to fedcf58797bf2791591606f7b61fdad99ad8bff1. This vulnerability affects unknown code. Performing manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be exploited. Continious delivery with rolling releases is used by this product. Therefore, no version details of affected nor updated releases are available. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.",
  "id": "GHSA-f59q-vqh7-8j8m",
  "modified": "2025-10-27T03:30:36Z",
  "published": "2025-10-27T03:30:36Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-12202"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Lianhaorui/Report/blob/main/CSRF-10.11.7z"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.329872"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://vuldb.com/?id.329872"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://vuldb.com/?submit.673435"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F5C9-GCJW-GHVW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-22 00:00 – Updated: 2023-07-20 18:33
VLAI
Details

The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, with a role as low as subscriber to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2022-0164"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352",
      "CWE-863"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-02-21T11:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The Coming soon and Maintenance mode WordPress plugin before 3.6.8 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks in its coming_soon_send_mail AJAX action, allowing any authenticated users, with a role as low as subscriber to send arbitrary emails to all subscribed users",
  "id": "GHSA-f5c9-gcjw-ghvw",
  "modified": "2023-07-20T18:33:42Z",
  "published": "2022-02-22T00:00:26Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0164"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2655973"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/942535f9-73bf-4467-872a-20075f03bc51"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F5CH-36RG-VFCC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:09 – Updated: 2022-11-01 22:50
VLAI
Summary
Cross-Site Request Forgery in Apache CXF Fediz
Details

Apache CXF Fediz ships with an OpenId Connect (OIDC) service which has a Client Registration Service, which is a simple web application that allows clients to be created, deleted, etc. A CSRF (Cross Style Request Forgery) style vulnerability has been found in this web application in Apache CXF Fediz prior to 1.4.0 and 1.3.2, meaning that a malicious web application could create new clients, or reset secrets, etc, after the admin user has logged on to the client registration service and the session is still active.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.apache.cxf.fediz:fediz-oidc"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.3.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-7662"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-11-01T22:50:47Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-05-16T17:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Apache CXF Fediz ships with an OpenId Connect (OIDC) service which has a Client Registration Service, which is a simple web application that allows clients to be created, deleted, etc. A CSRF (Cross Style Request Forgery) style vulnerability has been found in this web application in Apache CXF Fediz prior to 1.4.0 and 1.3.2, meaning that a malicious web application could create new clients, or reset secrets, etc, after the admin user has logged on to the client registration service and the session is still active.",
  "id": "GHSA-f5ch-36rg-vfcc",
  "modified": "2022-11-01T22:50:47Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:09:19Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7662"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/cxf-fediz/commit/c68e4820816c19241568f4a8fe8600bffb0243cd"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r36e44ffc1a9b365327df62cdfaabe85b9a5637de102cea07d79b2dbf@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc774278135816e7afc943dc9fc78eb0764f2c84a2b96470a0187315c@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd49aabd984ed540c8ff7916d4d79405f3fa311d2fdbcf9ed307839a6@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rec7160382badd3ef4ad017a22f64a266c7188b9ba71394f0d321e2d4@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb87e0bf3995e7d560afeed750fac9329ff5f1ad49da365129b7f89e@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rff42cfa5e7d75b7c1af0e37589140a8f1999e578a75738740b244bd4@%3Ccommits.cxf.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://cxf.apache.org/security-advisories.data/CVE-2017-7662.txt.asc"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038498"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Cross-Site Request Forgery in Apache CXF Fediz"
}

GHSA-F5CJ-J5R6-8462

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-02-08 03:30 – Updated: 2026-04-08 21:31
VLAI
Details

The Wicked Folders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.18.16. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_unassign_folders function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke this function via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link leading them to perform actions intended for administrators such as changing the folder structure maintained by the plugin..

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-0685"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2023-02-08T02:15:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The Wicked Folders plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 2.18.16. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the ajax_unassign_folders function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to invoke this function via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link leading them to perform actions intended for administrators such as changing the folder structure maintained by the plugin..",
  "id": "GHSA-f5cj-j5r6-8462",
  "modified": "2026-04-08T21:31:48Z",
  "published": "2023-02-08T03:30:25Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0685"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wicked-folders/tags/2.18.16/lib/class-wicked-folders-ajax.php"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026new=2860994%40wicked-folders%2Ftrunk\u0026old=2805161%40wicked-folders%2Ftrunk\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e52b27fa-10e8-43d0-be29-774c2f5487ae"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e52b27fa-10e8-43d0-be29-774c2f5487ae?source=cve"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F5CM-HF7H-G464

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-01-02 12:32 – Updated: 2026-04-01 18:32
VLAI
Details

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SKT Themes Posterity allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Posterity: from n/a through 3.3.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-37493"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-01-02T12:15:21Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SKT Themes Posterity allows Cross Site Request Forgery.This issue affects Posterity: from n/a through 3.3.",
  "id": "GHSA-f5cm-hf7h-g464",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T18:32:57Z",
  "published": "2025-01-02T12:32:15Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37493"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/theme/posterity/vulnerability/wordpress-posterity-theme-3-3-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

GHSA-F5HQ-FHH6-8VH6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-02-25 00:01 – Updated: 2022-03-03 00:00
VLAI
Details

A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the HTTP daemon of the Zyxel ARMOR Z1/Z2 firmware could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands if they coerce or trick a local user to visit a compromised website with malicious scripts.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-4030"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-352"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-02-24T15:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "A cross-site request forgery vulnerability in the HTTP daemon of the Zyxel ARMOR Z1/Z2 firmware could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands if they coerce or trick a local user to visit a compromised website with malicious scripts.",
  "id": "GHSA-f5hq-fhh6-8vh6",
  "modified": "2022-03-03T00:00:57Z",
  "published": "2022-02-25T00:01:06Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4030"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.zyxel.com/support/forgery-vulnerabilities-of-select-Armor-home-routers.shtml"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}

Mitigation MIT-4
Architecture and Design

Strategy: Libraries or Frameworks

  • Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid [REF-1482].
  • For example, use anti-CSRF packages such as the OWASP CSRFGuard. [REF-330]
  • Another example is the ESAPI Session Management control, which includes a component for CSRF. [REF-45]
Mitigation
Implementation

Ensure that the application is free of cross-site scripting issues (CWE-79), because most CSRF defenses can be bypassed using attacker-controlled script.

Mitigation
Architecture and Design

Generate a unique nonce for each form, place the nonce into the form, and verify the nonce upon receipt of the form. Be sure that the nonce is not predictable (CWE-330). [REF-332]

Mitigation
Architecture and Design

Identify especially dangerous operations. When the user performs a dangerous operation, send a separate confirmation request to ensure that the user intended to perform that operation.

Mitigation
Architecture and Design
  • Use the "double-submitted cookie" method as described by Felten and Zeller:
  • When a user visits a site, the site should generate a pseudorandom value and set it as a cookie on the user's machine. The site should require every form submission to include this value as a form value and also as a cookie value. When a POST request is sent to the site, the request should only be considered valid if the form value and the cookie value are the same.
  • Because of the same-origin policy, an attacker cannot read or modify the value stored in the cookie. To successfully submit a form on behalf of the user, the attacker would have to correctly guess the pseudorandom value. If the pseudorandom value is cryptographically strong, this will be prohibitively difficult.
  • This technique requires Javascript, so it may not work for browsers that have Javascript disabled. [REF-331]
Mitigation
Architecture and Design

Do not use the GET method for any request that triggers a state change.

Mitigation
Implementation

Check the HTTP Referer header to see if the request originated from an expected page. This could break legitimate functionality, because users or proxies may have disabled sending the Referer for privacy reasons.

CAPEC-111: JSON Hijacking (aka JavaScript Hijacking)

An attacker targets a system that uses JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) as a transport mechanism between the client and the server (common in Web 2.0 systems using AJAX) to steal possibly confidential information transmitted from the server back to the client inside the JSON object by taking advantage of the loophole in the browser's Same Origin Policy that does not prohibit JavaScript from one website to be included and executed in the context of another website.

CAPEC-462: Cross-Domain Search Timing

An attacker initiates cross domain HTTP / GET requests and times the server responses. The timing of these responses may leak important information on what is happening on the server. Browser's same origin policy prevents the attacker from directly reading the server responses (in the absence of any other weaknesses), but does not prevent the attacker from timing the responses to requests that the attacker issued cross domain.

CAPEC-467: Cross Site Identification

An attacker harvests identifying information about a victim via an active session that the victim's browser has with a social networking site. A victim may have the social networking site open in one tab or perhaps is simply using the "remember me" feature to keep their session with the social networking site active. An attacker induces a payload to execute in the victim's browser that transparently to the victim initiates a request to the social networking site (e.g., via available social network site APIs) to retrieve identifying information about a victim. While some of this information may be public, the attacker is able to harvest this information in context and may use it for further attacks on the user (e.g., spear phishing).

CAPEC-62: Cross Site Request Forgery

An attacker crafts malicious web links and distributes them (via web pages, email, etc.), typically in a targeted manner, hoping to induce users to click on the link and execute the malicious action against some third-party application. If successful, the action embedded in the malicious link will be processed and accepted by the targeted application with the users' privilege level. This type of attack leverages the persistence and implicit trust placed in user session cookies by many web applications today. In such an architecture, once the user authenticates to an application and a session cookie is created on the user's system, all following transactions for that session are authenticated using that cookie including potential actions initiated by an attacker and simply "riding" the existing session cookie.