CSRF token

A secret value added to a web form by the server and sent back by the user as part of a POST request, used to prevent cross-site request forgeries by making sure that the user sending the POST request has actually loaded the form.

Noun

  1. A secret value added to a web form by the server and sent back by the user as part of a POST request, used to prevent cross-site request forgeries by making sure that the user sending the POST request has actually loaded the form.

Origin

Initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery + token.

Forms

CSRF tokens XSRF token

Wikipedia

Cross-Site Request Forgery

Synonyms

anti-CSRF token