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== Login CSRF attack

In a login CSRF attack, the attacker forges a login request to an honest site using the attacker’s username 
and password at that site. If the forgery succeeds, the honest server responds with a `Set-Cookie` header 
that instructs the browser to mutate its state by storing a session cookie, logging the user into
the honest site as the attacker. This session cookie is used to bind subsequent requests to the user’s session and hence
to the attacker’s authentication credentials. Login CSRF attacks can have serious consequences, for example 
see the picture below where an attacker created an account at google.com the victim visits the malicious
website and the user is logged in as the attacker. The attacker could then later on gather information about
the activities of the user.

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image::images/login-csrf.png[caption="Figure: ", title="Login CSRF from Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery", width="800", height="500", style="lesson-image" link="http://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/csrf/csrf.pdf"]

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For more information read the following http://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/csrf/csrf.pdf[paper]

In this assignment try to see if WebGoat is also vulnerable for a login CSRF attack. First create a user 
based on your own username prefixed with csrf. So if your username is `tom` you must create
a new user called `csrf-tom`

