XSS and CSRF Are Different Problems: A Browser Security Guide for Students
XSS is about attacker-controlled script executing in a trusted origin; CSRF is about a browser being tricked into sending an authenticated request.
2026-09-19
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XSS is about attacker-controlled script executing in a trusted origin; CSRF is about a browser being tricked into sending an authenticated request.
The point of an OWASP checklist is not to collect vulnerabilities; it is to systematically ask how an application can be abused.