A form on your page is missing protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). This is a type of attack where a malicious website can trick a logged-in user into unknowingly submitting a form on your site, potentially leading to unauthorized actions like changing a password or making a purchase. This is a serious vulnerability.
A form without a unique, hidden token to verify the submission.
For each user session, your server should generate a unique, secret token. This token should be included as a hidden field in every form. When the form is submitted, the server must verify that the token matches the one it generated for that session.
<form action="/update-profile" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" value="a-unique-and-secret-value">
<!-- Other form fields -->
</form>An attacker's website cannot guess the secret CSRF token, so any forged requests they try to make will be rejected by your server. This is a standard and highly effective defense against CSRF attacks.
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