OWASP / OWASP/SecurityShepherd

CSRF lessons don't work well

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Description

the CSRF lessons are ... interesting. We had real difficulty getting them to fire, despite Burp showing us that increments are happening, but no success keys came up when others incremented the counter. This seems to cover all of the CSRF lessons.

Can we please do some investigation into if the CSRF lessons are currently working, and if so, let's make it a bit easier for users who have submitted a CSRF attack to see their keys

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the CSRF lessons and observing the counter increments with Burp. Investigate why successful increments do not produce success keys across the lessons; done means the lessons reliably recognize submitted CSRF attacks and make the resulting keys easier to find.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
security
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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