# Django Security Cheat Sheet — Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

> Include the django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware module in the MIDDLEWARE setting in your project's settings.py to add CSRF related headers to your responses.

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Include the django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware module in the MIDDLEWARE setting in your project's settings.py to add CSRF related headers to your responses. In forms use the {% csrf_token %} template tag to include the CSRF token. A sample is shown below.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```html
  &lt;form method="post"&gt;
      {% csrf_token %}
      &lt;!-- Your form fields here --&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
```

For AJAX calls, the CSRF token for the request has to be extracted prior to being used in the AJAX call. Additional recommendations and controls can be found at Django's Cross Site Request Forgery protection documentation.

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