Class CsrfProtectionMiddleware

Provides CSRF protection & validation.

This middleware adds a CSRF token to a cookie. The cookie value is compared to request data, or the X-CSRF-Token header on each PATCH, POST, PUT, or DELETE request.

If the request data is missing or does not match the cookie data, an InvalidCsrfTokenException will be raised.

This middleware integrates with the FormHelper automatically and when used together your forms will have CSRF tokens automatically added when $this->Form->create(...) is used in a view.

Namespace: Cake\Http\Middleware
Location: Http/Middleware/CsrfProtectionMiddleware.php

Properties summary

Method Summary

Method Detail

__construct()source public 

__construct( array $config [] )

Constructor

Parameters

array $config optional []
Config options. See $_defaultConfig for valid keys.

__invoke()source public 

__invoke( Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request , Cake\Http\Response $response , callable $next )

Checks and sets the CSRF token depending on the HTTP verb.

Parameters

Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request
The request.
Cake\Http\Response $response
The response.
callable $next
Callback to invoke the next middleware.

Returns

Cake\Http\Response
A response

_addTokenCookie()source protected 

_addTokenCookie( string $token , Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request , Cake\Http\Response $response )

Add a CSRF token to the response cookies.

Parameters

string $token
The token to add.
Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request
The request to validate against.
Cake\Http\Response $response
The response.

Returns

@param
\Cake\Http\Response $response Modified response.

_addTokenToRequest()source protected 

_addTokenToRequest( string $token , Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request )

Add a CSRF token to the request parameters.

Parameters

string $token
The token to add.
Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request
The request to augment

Returns

Cake\Http\ServerRequest
Modified request

_createToken()source protected 

_createToken( )

Create a new token to be used for CSRF protection

Returns

string

_validateAndUnsetTokenField()source protected 

_validateAndUnsetTokenField( Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request )

Checks if the request is POST, PUT, DELETE or PATCH and validates the CSRF token

Parameters

Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request
The request object.

Returns

Cake\Http\ServerRequest

_validateToken()source protected 

_validateToken( Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request )

Validate the request data against the cookie token.

Parameters

Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request
The request to validate against.

Throws

Cake\Network\Exception\InvalidCsrfTokenException
When the CSRF token is invalid or missing.

Properties detail

$_configsource

protected array

Configuration

[]

$_defaultConfigsource

protected array

Default config for the CSRF handling.

  • cookieName = The name of the cookie to send.
    • expiry = How long the CSRF token should last. Defaults to browser session.
    • secure = Whether or not the cookie will be set with the Secure flag. Defaults to false.
    • httpOnly = Whether or not the cookie will be set with the HttpOnly flag. Defaults to false.
    • field = The form field to check. Changing this will also require configuring FormHelper.
[
    'cookieName' => 'csrfToken',
    'expiry' => 0,
    'secure' => false,
    'httpOnly' => false,
    'field' => '_csrfToken',
]

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