CSRF Cookie Bundle
This Symfony bundle provides Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF or XSRF) protection for client-side applications requesting endpoints provided by Symfony through XHR.
Heavily influenced and inspired by DunglasAngularCsrfBundle
Requirements
- Symfony >= 5.x
Working method
To store the CSRF token client-side a cookie containing the token can be set by one or more predetermined routes. The bundle is pre-configured in a way that modern client-side http clients such as Axios will automatically pick up said cookie. On subsequent requests to Symfony the CSRF token can then be added to the HTTP header to be validated server-side. Again, some clients may already do so automatically e.g. Axios.
Installation
Use Composer to install this bundle:
composer require dneustadt/csrf-cookie-bundle
General Configuration
# config/packages/dneustadt_csrf_cookie.yaml
dneustadt_csrf_cookie:
# Generally enable/disable the CSRF protection
enable: true
# ID used to generate token
id: csrf
# Name of the cookie the token is stored in
name: XSRF-TOKEN
# Cookie expiration
expire: 0
# Cookie path
path: /
# Cookie domain
domain: null
# Cookie secure
secure: false
# Name of the HTTP header the token is expected to be stored in
header: X-XSRF-TOKEN
# Cookie same site policy
sameSite: lax
Routes Configurations
Routes can be set up to either provide (create
) a token, be secured by (require
) a token or both.
Since the defaults of a single route or a route collection are used to configure the behaviour it is possible to do so either by means of configuration files or annotations.
# config/routes.yaml
api_controllers:
resource: ../src/Controller/Api
type: annotation
defaults:
csrf:
# bool or array of allowed methods
create: true
# bool or array of allowed methods
require:
- 'POST'
- 'PUT'
- 'PATCH'
- 'DELETE'
# array of route names to be excluded from create/require in this collection
exclude:
- 'app_api_blog_index'
# additional condition using ExpressionLanguage syntax
condition: 'request.isXmlHttpRequest()'
For more information on conditions see ExpressionLanguage
As annotation:
// src/Controller/Api/ExampleController.php
namespace App\Controller\Api;
// ...
class ExampleController extends AbstractController
{
/**
* @Route("/api/index", methods={"GET","HEAD"}, defaults={"csrf": {"create": true}})
*/
public function index()
{
// ...
}
}
Symfony Form Component
Built-in CSRF Protection of forms will be automatically disabled for routes that are configured to be secured by means of the token stored in the HTTP header, provided said token can be successfully validated.