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block includes
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include ../_util-fns
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:marked
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This section describes Angular's built-in
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protections against common web application vulnerabilities and attacks such as cross-site
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scripting attacks. It does not cover application-level security, such as authentication (_Who is
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this user?_) or authorization (_What can this user do?_).
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For more information about the attacks and mitigations described below, see [OWASP Guide Project](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Guide_Project).
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:marked
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# Contents:
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* [Reporting vulnerabilities](#report-issues).
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* [Best practices](#best-practices).
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* [Preventing cross-site scripting (XSS)](#xss).
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* [Trusting safe values](#bypass-security-apis).
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* [HTTP-Level vulnerabilities](#http).
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* [Auditing Angular applications](#code-review).
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Try the <live-example></live-example> of the code shown in this page.
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h2#report-issues Reporting vulnerabilities
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:marked
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Email us at [security@angular.io](mailto:security@angular.io) to report vulnerabilities in
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Angular itself.
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For more information about how Google handles security issues, see [Google's security
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philosophy](https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/).
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h2#best-practices Best practices
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:marked
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* **Keep current with the latest Angular library releases.**
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We regularly update our Angular libraries, and these updates may fix security defects discovered in
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previous versions. Check the Angular [change
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log](https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for security-related updates.
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* **Don't modify your copy of Angular.**
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Private, customized versions of Angular tend to fall behind the current version and may not include
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important security fixes and enhancements. Instead, share your Angular improvements with the
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community and make a pull request.
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* **Avoid Angular APIs marked in the documentation as “[_Security Risk_](#bypass-security-apis).”**
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h2#xss Preventing cross-site scripting (XSS)
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:marked
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[Cross-site scripting (XSS)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) enables attackers
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to inject malicious code into web pages. Such code can then, for example, steal user data (in
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particular, their login data) or perform actions impersonating the user. This is one of the most
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common attacks on the web.
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To block XSS attacks, you must prevent malicious code from entering the DOM (Document Object Model). For example, if an
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attacker can trick you into inserting a `<script>` tag in the DOM, they can run arbitrary code on
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your website. The attack is not limited to `<script>` tags—many elements and properties in the
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DOM allow code execution, for example, `<img onerror="...">` and `<a href="javascript:...">`. If
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attacker-controlled data enters the DOM, expect security vulnerabilities.
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### Angular’s cross-site scripting security model
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To systematically block XSS bugs, Angular treats all values as untrusted by default. When a value
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is inserted into the DOM from a template, via property, attribute, style, class binding, or interpolation, Angular sanitizes and escapes untrusted values.
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_Angular templates are the same as executable code_: HTML, attributes, and binding expressions
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(but not the values bound!) in templates are trusted to be safe. This means that applications must
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prevent values that an attacker can control from ever making it into the source code of a
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template. Never generate template source code by concatenating user input and templates! Using
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the [offline template compiler](#offline-template-compiler) is an effective way to prevent these
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vulnerabilities, also known as _template injection_.
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### Sanitization and security contexts
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_Sanitization_ is the inspection of an untrusted value, turning it into a value that is safe to insert into
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the DOM. In many cases, sanitization does not change a value at all. Sanitization depends on context:
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a value that is harmless in CSS is potentially dangerous in a URL.
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Angular defines four security contexts—HTML, style, URL, and resource URL:
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* **HTML** is used when interpreting a value as HTML, for example, when binding to `innerHtml`
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* **Style** is used when binding CSS into the `style` property
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* **URL** is used for URL properties such as `<a href>`
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* **Resource URL** is a URL that will be loaded and executed as code, for example, in `<script src>`
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Angular sanitizes untrusted values for the first three items; sanitizing resource URLs is not
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possible because they contain arbitrary code. In development mode, Angular prints a console warning
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when it has to change a value during sanitization.
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### Sanitization example
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The template below binds the value of `htmlSnippet`, once by interpolating it into an element's
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content, and once by binding it to the `innerHTML` property of an element:
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+makeExample('app/inner-html-binding.component.html')
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:marked
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Interpolated content is always escaped—the HTML is not interpreted, and the browser displays
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angle brackets in the element's text content.
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For the HTML to be interpreted, you must bind it to an HTML property such as `innerHTML`. But binding
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a value that an attacker might control into `innerHTML` normally causes an XSS
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vulnerability. For example, code contained in a `<script>` tag is executed:
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+makeExcerpt('app/inner-html-binding.component.ts ()', 'inner-html-controller')
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:marked
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Angular recognizes the value as unsafe and automatically sanitizes it, which removes the `<script>`
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tag but keeps safe content such as the text content of the `<script>` tag, or the `<b>` element.
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/security/binding-inner-html.png'
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alt='A screenshot showing interpolated and bound HTML values')
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:marked
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### Avoid direct use of the DOM APIs
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The built-in browser DOM APIs do not automatically protect you from security vulnerabilities.
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For example, `document`, the node available through `ElementRef`, and many third-party APIs
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contain unsafe methods. Avoid directly interacting with the DOM and instead use Angular
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templates where possible.
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### Content security policy
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[Content Security Policy (CSP)](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/) is a defense-in-depth
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technique to prevent XSS. To enable CSP, configure your web server to return an appropriate
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`Content-Security-Policy` HTTP header.
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<a id="offline-template-compiler"></a>
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### Use the offline template compiler
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The offline template compiler prevents a whole class of vulnerabilities called template injection,
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and also greatly improves application performance. Use the offline template compiler in production
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deployments; do not dynamically generate templates. Angular trusts template code, so generating
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templates, in particular templates containing user data, circumvents Angular's built-in protections. For information about how to dynamically construct forms in a safe way, see
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[Dynamic Forms Cookbook](../cookbook/dynamic-form.html).
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### Server-side XSS protection
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HTML constructed on the server is vulnerable to injection attacks. Injecting template code into an
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Angular application is the same as injecting executable code into the
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application: it gives the attacker full control over the application. To prevent this,
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use a templating language that automatically escapes values to prevent XSS vulnerabilities on
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the server. Do not generate Angular templates on the server side using a templating language; doing this
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carries a high risk of introducing template-injection vulnerabilities.
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h2#bypass-security-apis Trusting safe values
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:marked
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Sometimes applications genuinely need to include executable code, display an `<iframe>` from some
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URL, or construct potentially dangerous URLs. To prevent automatic sanitization in any of these
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situations, you can tell Angular that you inspected a value, checked how it was generated, and made
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sure it will always be secure. But **be careful**! If you trust a value that might be malicious, you
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are introducing a security vulnerability into your application. If in doubt, find a professional
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security reviewer.
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You can mark a value as trusted by injecting `DomSanitizer` and calling one of the
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following methods:
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* `bypassSecurityTrustHtml`
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* `bypassSecurityTrustScript`
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* `bypassSecurityTrustStyle`
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* `bypassSecurityTrustUrl`
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* `bypassSecurityTrustResourceUrl`
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Remember, whether a value is safe depends on context, so you need to choose the right context for
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your intended use of the value. Imagine that the following template needs to bind a URL to a
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`javascript:alert(...)` call:
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+makeExcerpt('app/bypass-security.component.html ()', 'dangerous-url')
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:marked
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Normally, Angular automatically sanitizes the URL, disables the dangerous code, and
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in development mode, logs this action to the console. To prevent
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this, you can mark the URL value as a trusted URL using the `bypassSecurityTrustUrl` call:
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+makeExcerpt('app/bypass-security.component.ts ()', 'trust-url')
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/security/bypass-security-component.png'
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alt='A screenshot showing an alert box created from a trusted URL')
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:marked
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If you need to convert user input into a trusted value, use a
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controller method. The template below allows users to enter a YouTube video ID and load the
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corresponding video in an `<iframe>`. The `<iframe src>` attribute is a resource URL security
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context, because an untrusted source can, for example, smuggle in file downloads that unsuspecting users
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could execute. So call a method on the controller to construct a trusted video URL, that causes
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Angular to then allow binding into `<iframe src>`:
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+makeExcerpt('app/bypass-security.component.html ()', 'iframe-videoid')
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+makeExcerpt('app/bypass-security.component.ts ()', 'trust-video-url')
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h2#http HTTP-level vulnerabilities
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:marked
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Angular has built-in support to help prevent two common HTTP vulnerabilities, cross-site request
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forgery (CSRF or XSRF) and cross-site script inclusion (XSSI). Both of these must be mitigated primarily
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on the server side, but Angular ships helpers to make integration on the client side easier.
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h3#xsrf Cross-site request forgery
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:marked
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In a cross-site request forgery, an attacker tricks the user into visiting a
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_different_ page and has them, for example, submit a form that sends a request to your application's
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web server. If the user is logged into your application, the browser will send authentication
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cookies, and the attacker could—for example—cause a bank transfer in the user's name with
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the right request.
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To prevent this, your application must ensure that user requests originate in your own
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application, not on a different site. A common technique is that the server sends a randomly
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generated authentication token in a cookie, often with the name `XSRF-TOKEN`. Only the website
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on which cookies are set can read the cookies, so only your own application can read this token. On
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each API request, the server then validates the client by checking that the token is sent back,
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usually in an HTTP header called `X-XSRF-TOKEN`.
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The Angular `http` client has built-in support for this technique. The default
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`CookieXSRFStrategy` looks for a cookie called `XSRF-TOKEN` and sets an HTTP request header named
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`X-XSRF-TOKEN` with the value of that cookie on every request. The server must set the
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`XSRF-TOKEN` cookie and validate the response header for each state-modifying request.
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CSRF tokens should be unique per user and session, have a large random value generated by a
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cryptographically secure random number generator, and expire.
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Angular applications can customize cookie and header names by binding their own
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`CookieXSRFStrategy` value or implement an entirely custom `XSRFStrategy` through providing a custom
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binding for that type by adding either of the following to your providers list:
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code-example(language="typescript").
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{ provide: XSRFStrategy, useValue: new CookieXSRFStrategy('myCookieName', 'My-Header-Name')}
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{ provide: XSRFStrategy, useClass: MyXSRFStrategy}
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:marked
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For information about CSRF at the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) see
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[Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_%28CSRF%29) and
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[Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention Cheat Sheet](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CSRF_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet). The Stanford University
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paper [Robust Defenses for Cross-Site Request Forgery](https://seclab.stanford.edu/websec/csrf/csrf.pdf) is also a rich source of detail.
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h3#xssi Cross-site script inclusion (XSSI)
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:marked
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Cross-site script inclusion, also known as JSON vulnerability, can allow an attacker's website to
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read data from a JSON API. The attack works on older browsers by overriding native JavaScript
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object constructors, and then including an API URL using a `<script>` tag.
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This attack is only successful if the returned JSON is executable as JavaScript. Servers can
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prevent an attack by prefixing all JSON responses to make them non-executable, by convention, using the
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well-known string `")]}',\n"`.
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Angular's `Http` library recognizes this convention and automatically strips the string
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`")]}',\n"` from all responses before further parsing.
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For more information, see the XSSI section of this [Google web security blog
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post](https://security.googleblog.com/2011/05/website-security-for-webmasters.html).
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h2#code-review Auditing angular applications
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:marked
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Angular applications must follow the same security principles as regular web applications, and
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must be audited as such. Angular-specific APIs that should be audited in a security review,
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such as the [_bypassSecurityTrust_](#bypass-security-apis) methods, are marked in the documentation
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as security sensitive.
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