In which type of attack does an attacker trick a victim into submitting a malicious request on their behalf?
- Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
- Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack in which the attacker tricks a victim into submitting a malicious request, often without the victim's knowledge, on their behalf.
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