csrf-cross-site-request-forgery

csrf-cross-site-request-forgery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yaklang/hack-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (4,192 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A testing guide for cross-site request forgery, an attack where a malicious website makes unwanted changes through a victim's logged-in browser session. It covers request protections, browser cookie rules, JSON requests, login attacks, and OAuth state checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review state-changing web endpoints and test anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookie settings, JSON and multipart requests, login flows, OAuth callbacks, and interactions with cross-site scripting.
Why use it?
It helps find cases where a website trusts a login cookie without confirming that the request came from the real site. This can expose actions such as changing passwords, email addresses, or account permissions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Attack: Set PROFILE_ID to ../../admin/dangerous-action.

Good fit Use it to review state-changing web endpoints and test anti-CSRF tokens, SameSite cookie settings, JSON and multipart requests, login flows, OAuth callbacks, and interactions with cross-site scripting.

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About the project

HackSkills is an organized knowledge base of installable skills that gives AI agents practical security knowledge across areas such as web security, privilege escalation, reverse engineering, and digital forensics. It is intended for bug bounty work, penetration testing, CTF competitions, and authorized security research. The catalogue entries are the project's own master, category, and topic skills.

yaklang/hack-skills · 2,143 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yaklang/hack-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yaklang/hack-skills/csrf-cross-site-request-forgery

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,192 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 10 Apr 2026
  • Snyk fail 10 Apr 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00044 $0.04192
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.02096
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00838
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00419

Measured 10d ago against content hash b837b92b54fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

csrf-cross-site-request-forgery scanned grade D with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- If server accepts GET for state-changing endpoint: -->

Sends data to an external URLmediumData exfiltration

A POST to an outside endpoint may be telemetry or may be exfiltration; either way the mod talks to somewhere, and you should know where.

fetch('https://target.com/api/v1/change-email', { method: 'POST',
Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/csrf-cross-site-request-forgery/SKILL.md · 527 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 527 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: CSRF — Cross-Site Request Forgery — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert CSRF techniques. Covers modern bypass vectors (SameSite gaps, custom header flaws, tokenless bypass patterns), JSON CSRF, multipart CSRF, chaining with XSS. Base models often present only basic CSRF without covering SameSite edge cases and common broken token implementations.

Also load:


1. CORE CONCEPT

CSRF exploits a victim's active session to perform state-changing requests from the attacker's origin.

Required conditions:

  1. Victim is authenticated (active session cookie)
  2. Server identifies session via cookie only (no secondary check)
  3. Attacker can predict/construct the valid request
  4. Cookie is sent cross-origin (SameSite=None or legacy behavior)

2. FINDING CSRF TARGETS

High-value state-changing endpoints:

- Password change         ← account takeover
- Email change            ← account takeover
- Add admin / change role ← privilege escalation
- Bank/payment transfer   ← financial impact
- OAuth app authorization ← hijack oauth flow
- Account deletion
- Two-factor auth disable  
- SSH key / API key addition
- Webhook configuration
- Profile/contact info update

3. TOKEN BYPASS TECHNIQUES

No Token Present

Simplest case — form simply lacks CSRF token. Check if POST /change-email has any token. If not → trivially exploitable.

Token Not Validated (most common finding!)

Token exists in request but is never verified server-side:

Remove the _csrf_token parameter entirely → does request still succeed?
→ YES → trivial bypass

Token Tied to Session but Not to User

Step 1: Log in as UserA → obtain valid CSRF token
Step 2: Log in as UserB in other browser → obtain UserB CSRF token  
Step 3: Use UserB's CSRF token in UserA's session (attacker controls UserB)
→ If server validates token exists but doesn't check if it belongs to the session → bypass

Read the full file on GitHub · 527 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 527 lines · 44 tokens per session scan D b837b92b54fa

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csrf-cross-site-request-forgery is a skill published in the GitHub repository yaklang/hack-skills (2,143 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 4,192 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (hidden instructions, sends data to an external url). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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