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CSRF token

noun

Etymology

Initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery + token.

Definitions

  1. A secret value added to a web form by the server and sent back by the user as part of a…

    A secret value added to a web form by the server and sent back by the user as part of a POST request, used to prevent cross-site request forgeries by making sure that the user sending the POST request has actually loaded the form.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for CSRF token. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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