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performing-csrf-attack-simulation
Testing web applications for Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities by crafting forged requests that exploit authenticated user sessions during authorized security assessments.
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# Performing CSRF Attack Simulation
## When to Use
- During authorized web application penetration tests to identify state-changing actions vulnerable to CSRF
- When testing the effectiveness of anti-CSRF token implementations
- For validating SameSite cookie attribute enforcement across different browsers
- When assessing applications that perform sensitive operations (password change, fund transfer, settings modification)
- During security audits of custom authentication and session management mechanisms
### How to CONFIRM a Hit (avoid false negatives)
- **Positive signal**: a cross-site forged request, carrying ONLY the victim's cookies and no valid anti-CSRF token, actually performs the state change (email changed, funds moved, 2FA disabled) — confirmed by inspecting the resulting account state.
- Confirm the **token-validation gap**: the request still succeeds when the token is missing, empty, random, expired, or belongs to another user/session — that proves the token is not properly tied to the session.