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Cross-site request forgery

Posted Oct 18, 2007 10:56 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
Parent article: Cross-site request forgery

Not sure about "sleeping giant". CSRF is routinely used to exploit home ADSL routers, with requests of the form http://192.168.2.1/firewall.cgi?disable. With a trivial extra image you can also pick up the exploited user's public IP address.

Rich.

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