CORS vs CSRF: What’s the Difference?
CORS and CSRF get lumped together way too often. I’ve seen teams say “we enabled CORS, so we’re protected from CSRF now” and then act surprised when their app still has a cross-site request forgery bug. That’s the core mistake: these are not competing solutions to the same problem. They deal with different threats, at different layers, using different browser behavior. If you only remember one thing, make it this: ...