In a post to his site Rob Allen shows you how to help secure your Slim 3-based applications with the help of the slim3-csrf package. A CSRF (cross-site request forgery) attack happens when another site requests a page in your application, possibly performing an action.

In addition to the core Slim framework, we also ship a number of add-ons that are useful for specific types of problems. One of these is Slim-Csrf which provides CSRF protection. This is middleware that sets a token in the session for every request that you can then set as an hidden input field on a form. When the form is submitted, the middleware checks that the value in the form field matches the value stored in the session. If they match, then the all is okay, but if they don't then an error is raised.

He shows how to add the middleware to your Slim 3 application and how to add the token to each form. The library generates random values for both the name of the token and the value making it compatible with applications that may involve multiple browser windows. He also shows you how to validate the token, either using the built-in "Guard" handling or manually by deferring the check to the route.