CSRF
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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that tricks authenticated users into submitting unwanted requests to a web application. The attacker leverages the victim's active session cookies to perform actions on their behalf without their knowledge.
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HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages. It defines the structure and semantic meaning of web content using elements represented by tags. Browsers parse HTML to render the visual structure of a page.
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