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absolutely not. Just forge the referrer header.


That's incorrect in this context, which is trying to get a victim to use their own browser to submit a request that uses cookies on said browser for authentication (CSRF). Please take a look at the following link:

"Although it is trivial to spoof the referer header on your own browser, it is impossible to do so in a CSRF attack."

(https://owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(CSRF...)




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