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a cross site request forgery attack causes a visitor of a malicious website to send a request to a legit website to which he is already logged in including the session cookie.

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Does using token-based auth make CSRF checks on login unnecessary?

Based on my understanding, avoiding the use of cookies as an authentication mechanism prevents CSRF vulnerabilities entirely (namely token based authentication in an SPA), when authenticated. … Does this also render CSRF checks on the login page / API endpoint itself unnecessary? …
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