CSRF protection

A CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attack, also known as a one-click attack or session riding, is a type of security exploit where an attacker tricks a victim into unknowingly executing unwanted actions on a web application in which the victim is authenticated. You can find more information on this type of attack at OWASP.

Corbado provides protection against CSRF attacks by setting the sameSite attribute of both cookies to lax. When the sameSite attribute is set to lax, the browser only sends cookies for requests originating from the same top-level domain (the domain visible in the browser’s address bar). Consequently, if a user visits a malicious site, requests from that site will not include the session cookies.