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protect_from_forgery should be configured with 'with: :exception'
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class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
Severity: Minor
Found in app/controllers/application_controller.rb by brakeman

Cross-site request forgery is #5 on the OWASP Top Ten. CSRF allows an attacker to perform actions on a website as if they are an authenticated user.

This warning is raised when no call to protect_from_forgery is found in ApplicationController. This method prevents CSRF.

For Rails 4 applications, it is recommended that you use protect_from_forgery :with => :exception. This code is inserted into newly generated applications. The default is to nil out the session object, which has been a source of many CSRF bypasses due to session memoization.

See the Ruby Security Guide for details.

Method url_for has a Cognitive Complexity of 12 (exceeds 5 allowed). Consider refactoring.
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  def url_for(options={})
    if institution_param.present?
      if options.is_a?(Hash)
        options[institution_param_name] ||= institution_param
      elsif options.is_a?(String)
Severity: Minor
Found in app/controllers/application_controller.rb - About 1 hr to fix

Cognitive Complexity

Cognitive Complexity is a measure of how difficult a unit of code is to intuitively understand. Unlike Cyclomatic Complexity, which determines how difficult your code will be to test, Cognitive Complexity tells you how difficult your code will be to read and comprehend.

A method's cognitive complexity is based on a few simple rules:

  • Code is not considered more complex when it uses shorthand that the language provides for collapsing multiple statements into one
  • Code is considered more complex for each "break in the linear flow of the code"
  • Code is considered more complex when "flow breaking structures are nested"

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