Re: NOOB exposes CSRF token. Now what?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Gordon Reeder <greeder59@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm learning Django and still very new at it. And like a newbie, I may have
> made a newbie goof.
> I have leaked my CSRF token.
> I am building up a web site with Django which I have under revision control
> with Git. I have pushed two commits of the project out to Github. The
> commits included the settings.py file, which list the CSRF token. I have
> read (after the fact) that maybe that wasn't the smartest thing to do.
>
> So now what?
>
> Can I remove the settings.py file from Github?
> Or can I generate a new CSRF token?
>
> Any suggestions?

CSRF tokens are generated on the fly, they aren't stored in your settings.py.

However, what is stored in settings is your SECRET_KEY. If you have
leaked it, you should change it immediately. This will invalidate
sessions, signed cookies, password reset tokens, some forms (if loaded
before you change it, and submitted after).

Take the pain now.

Cheers

Tom

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