This vulnerability allowed attackers to inject malicious JavaScript code into websites through the plugin, which attackers then used to force site users to open malicious links or attachments embedded in the affected sites. Cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced sea-surf) or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website or web application where unauthorized commands are submitted from a user that the web application trusts. Without a man-in-the-middle attack, there is no way for an attacker to send a CSRF token cookie to a victims browser, so a successful attack would need to obtain the victims browsers cookie via XSS or similar, in which case an attacker usually doesnt need CSRF attacks. Without _() in the global namespace, the developer has to think about which is the most The only way to protect the cookie is by using a different Without the CSRF token, there is no way we can verify. Anti-CSRF and AJAX. Since Visual Studio 2012, the anti-CSRF mechanism has been improved. Any requests generated by the users browser must contain the CSRF token. The simple difference between the two types of tokens is that a user access token lets you access a users Note. It can be easily bypassed using the DOM, for example by creating a hidden