I've been looking into how we might add CSRF protection to z3c.form forms as we will be including z3c.form in Plone 4.1. Currently in Plone, we use plone.protect to add an authentication token to our forms and then check the token in the methods that get called. (plone.protect is BSD licensed, but is Zope2 specific.) I think it's important for the integrator to be able to add an authentication policy to all z3c.form forms on a site, so I'd rather not rely on having all forms subclass some AuthenticatedForm. I can see a number of possible ways to implement this 1. Add a hook into z3c.form.form.Form along the lines of:: def update(self): super(Form, self).update() self.updateActions() self.authenticateSubmission() self.actions.execute() if self.refreshActions: self.updateActions() def authenticateSubmission(self): if self.actions.executedActions: authenticator = zope.component.queryMultiAdapter( (self, self.request, self.getContent()), interfaces.ISubmissionAuthenticator) if authenticator is not None: authenticator.authenticate() This would allow integrators to register an ISubmissionAuthenticator that would be called when there are actions to execute (so not when a form is just displayed.) 2. Similar to (1) but fire an event. This would allow multiple submission authenticators to be registered (e.g. for post-only as well as check-authenticator), but this makes it more difficult to restrict authenticators to only certain forms / requests / contexts. 3. Register a more specific version of z3c.form.button.ButtonActionsHandler which performs the check before executing the handler. This has the advantage of not requiring any changes to z3c.form, but the disadvantages that: only button actions are protected, and would be executed per action handler execution instead of once per submission. I'd be interested to know how other z3c.form users approach CSRF protection and what approach they would recommend. Laurence