[WEB SECURITY] Defeating nonce/token based CSRF protection

[Zinho]

You're right Jeroen,
That's why I believe that strong CAPTCHA's are more robust than tokens 
(nonces).
The problem with CAPTCHA's is that they are not always practicable. I've 
worked to fix CSRF problems into Joomla and such new CMS are full of 
ajax features and toggle buttons that are meant to increase usability 
and, at least in the case of CSRF, decrease security.
Another solution would be to ask for further user authentication (login 
again) before performing  "sensitive" actions.
Anyway, in my opinion, there is so little attention to CSRF from web 
developers that every time I see the use of tokens into the web 
application I pen test, it seems a miracle to me.

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