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Cross site scripting (XSS) is not the same thing as CSRF. If you were to do that, it wouldn't be a CSRF, because the action originated with the user.

Normally CSRFs are automatic, either in the form of an image (<img src="https://...?logout />) or an iframe src attribute. So, if you included the above image tag on your page, then it would be a CSRF, sometimes also called a Confused Deputy Attack.




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