Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Attacker creates forged HTTP requests and tricks a victim into submitting them via image tags, XSS, or numerous other techniques. If the user is authenticated, the attack succeeds. This kind of attack comes under the risk of following security risk?

  1. Injection

  2. Cross Site Scripting

  3. Cross Site Request Forgery

  4. Security Misconfiguration

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) involves attackers forging authenticated requests that victims unknowingly submit. Since the browser automatically sends cookies (including session tokens) with the request, the server believes it's from the legitimate user. Key indicators: forged requests, tricking victims, authentication bypass. Unlike XSS which executes scripts in the browser.