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Latest revision as of 11:37, 23 January 2014
Overview
Welcome to the OWASP CSRFGuard 3 User Manual! The purpose of this article is to provide the user with guidance on obtaining, installing, deploying, and developing with the OWASP CSRFGuard library. The author's goal was to keep the User Manual informative, use to understand, and concise. If you find that one or more aspects of this document does not adhere to these goals, please me know at eric dot sheridan at owasp dot org.
Download
Users can download the latest release of OWASP CSRFGuard using one of the following links:
Download and build the source at - https://github.com/aramrami/OWASP-CSRFGuard
Installation
Installation of OWASP CSRFGuard 3 is very straight forward requiring three simple steps:
- Copy the Owasp.CsrfGuard.jar file to your application's classpath
- Declare CsrfGuard in your application's deployment descriptor (web.xml)
- Configure the Owasp.CsrfGuard.properties file as you see fit
Click here for more detailed information regarding the installation of OWASP CSRFGuard.
Configuration
The minimum configuration settings that users should review include:
- Default new token landing page (org.owasp.csrfguard.NewTokenLandingPage)
- Support for Ajax and XMLHttpRequest (org.owasp.csrfguard.Ajax)
- URI resources that should not be protected (org.owasp.csrfguard.unprotected.*)
- Actions executed when an attack is detected (org.owasp.csrfguard.action.*)
Click here for more information regarding the configuration of OWASP CSRFGuard.
Token Injection
Users of OWASP CSRFGuard can inject prevention tokens into HTML using two strategies:
- JavaScript DOM Manipulation - largely automated process requiring minimal effort and is ideal for most web applications
- JSP Tag Library - provides fine grained strategy ideal for situations where automated DOM manipulation is insufficient.
Click here for more information regarding the injection of CSRF prevention tokens within your application.
Known Issues
The following is a quick bulleted list of known issues within the current release:
- No known way to inject CSRF prevention tokens into setters of document.location (ex: document.location="http://www.owasp.org";)
