Word.ws English Dictionary

CSRF

/siː ɛs ɑː(ɹ)ˈɛf/

CSRF is the initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery.

Meaning of Cross-Site Request Forgery

Noun

cross-site request forgery (countable and uncountable, plural cross-site request forgeries)

  1. (computer security) An exploit of a website where unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts.

Forms of CSRF

pluralCSRFs
alternative formXSRF

Phrases with CSRF

Questions about CSRF

What is CSRF the initialism of?
CSRF is the initialism of Cross-Site Request Forgery.
How do you pronounce CSRF?
CSRF is pronounced /siː ɛs ɑː(ɹ)ˈɛf/.

Words near CSRF in the dictionary

  1. CSPI
  2. CSPRNG
  3. CSPRNGs
  4. CSPs
  5. CSR
  6. CSRF
  7. CSRF token
  8. CSRF tokens
  9. CSRFs
  10. CSRS
  11. CSS

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: CSRF (page history and authors); cross-site request forgery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “CSRF.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/csrf. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.