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XSCF
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Introduction
Cross-Site Content Forgery is a vulnerability class that entails malforming the server-side mimetype for a particular resource to make it appear as something else.
Notice: This is by no means original, however the Facebook wiki documents how to do this in detail.
For example, you could have an innocent looking image file hosted somewhere, using apache directives such as "AddType" you can force the content-type of the resource to be processed server-side by any application.
When the application seizes control of the resource, you can wrap that resource into the functions of a program, wherein the output would be returned to the client
This vulnerability is possible because content-crawler bots make easily identifiable requests.
