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Why do browsers allow public websites to attack intranet sites?

When I'm visiting a website on the public internet, the website can cause my browser to send requests to a local IP address (such as 10.0.0.1). This can be used to attack internal web sites, e.g., ...
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CSRF with OAuth or Bearer Authorization headers

I am designing a RESTful API which is to be accessible from a web browser. The API is protected by Basic authentication. I understand the concept of CSRF, and the mitigations proposed (I found both ...
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CSRF Login: can Attacker Login using valid credentials?

Considering this picture: taken from here:page21 Is this possible? If so, How to prevent it?
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how an iframe can cause xsrf?

I know how a form tag is prone to CSRF which does not use any token (or any other challenge-response mechanism) but I was wondering how an iFrame can be used to cause XSRF attack and what would be the ...
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Should I prevent sending of GET requests for urls that are normally operated with POST request?

There is an url that is normally operated using POST requests (i.e. POST request is sent when user submits form). But attacker can form GET request with parameters that are sent in POST request. This ...
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What is the correct way to implement anti-CSRF form tokens?

I am fully aware of CSRF and have already implemented some safe forms, but I have never been happy with the results yet. I've created tokens as a md5 of username, form info and a salt and stored it ...