Dead simple CSRF security middleware for Starlette ⭐ and Fast API ⚡
- Will work with either a
<input type="hidden">field or ajax request headers, interchangeably. - Uses stateless Double Submit Cookie method, like Django.
- Tiny, easy to audit.
Add csrf_middleware.py to your project /middleware folder.
from starlette.applications import Starlette
from starlette.middleware import Middleware
from middleware.csrf_middleware import CSRFMiddleware
routes = ...
middleware = [
Middleware(CSRFMiddleware)
]
app = Starlette(routes=routes, middleware=middleware)from fastapi import FastAPI
from middleware.csrf_middleware import CSRFMiddleware
app = FastAPI()
app.add_middleware(CSRFMiddleware)- Use directly in HTML.
- Pass
request.state.csrftokento your template engine. <input type="hidden" name="csrftoken" value="{{ csrftoken }}" />
- Pass
- Use javascript / ajax frameworks such as the elegant htmx
♥️ - Before your ajax call, set your headers.
- Most frameworks:
headers: { 'csrftoken': '{{ csrftoken }}' } - XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader()
- Most frameworks:
- Before your ajax call, set your headers.
- Another htmx
♥️ solution.<body hx-headers='{"csrftoken": "{{ csrftoken }}"}'>
To make available something more simple and auditable than the typical libraries for this as of 2022:
- https://github.com/simonw/asgi-csrf
- https://github.com/frankie567/starlette-csrf
- https://github.com/piccolo-orm/piccolo_api/blob/master/piccolo_api/csrf/middleware.py
Maybe? Maybe not?