A CSRF attack forces a logged-on victim’s browser to send a forged HTTP request, including the victim’s session cookie and any other automatically included authentication information, to a vulnerable web application. This allows the attacker to force the victim’s browser to generate requests the vulnerable application thinks are legitimate requests from the victim.
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) - The following code was taken from: /app/controllers/application_controller.rb and /app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
application_controller.rb<
<%= %{# Our security guy keep talking about sea-surfing, cool story bro.}%> <%= %{ # protect_from_forgery } %>
application.html.erb
<%= @meta_code_bad %>
Cross-Site Request Forgery ATTACK:
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<%= %{ } %>
Cross-Site Request Forgery SOLUTION:
By Default, the protect_from_forgery directive is added under the application_controller.rb at project creation. However, occasionally developers turn it off (comment out) because of issues with JS. The solution around the JS problem is to add the following code within the header section of the application.html.erb file (or any other application layout file).
<%= @meta_code_good %>