--- title: "Protecting Next.js Apps Against Cross-Site Request Forgery" url: https://daily.dev/posts/protecting-next-js-apps-against-cross-site-request-forgery-1dg6enaor source_url: https://www.telerik.com/blogs/protecting-nextjs-applications-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-attacks type: article source: "Telerik" published: 2024-05-07T08:12:11.243Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z tags: ["security", "webdev", "nextjs", "web-security"] reading_time: 10 upvotes: 9 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Protecting Next.js Apps Against Cross-Site Request Forgery **[Telerik](https://daily.dev/sources/telerik)** · 10 min read · 9 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post explains the mechanics of cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and provides common countermeasures to prevent them. It also explores how to use CSRF tokens in a modern Next.js application. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#nextjs](https://daily.dev/tags/nextjs), [#web-security](https://daily.dev/tags/web-security) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/protecting-next-js-apps-against-cross-site-request-forgery-1dg6enaor)