Error: invalid csrf token[resolved]

[vatsal]

Though it is not a bug but some authentication problems with some plugin due to which they throw Error: invalid csrf token. I want to know in general which kind of issue within the plugins causes this error. And how to go about fixing this error.

[vatsal]

@vatsal more context...It is happening while I am trying to upload the image through nodebb-plugin-imgur https://github.com/barisusakli/nodebb-plugin-imgur. As soon as I hit the "open" button from my browser file picker, I get this error inside my nodejs console log: (running in dev mode)

Error: invalid csrf token
at verifytoken (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/csurf/index.js:234:13)
at csrf (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/csurf/index.js:94:7)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:76:5)
at next (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:100:13)
at Route.dispatch (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:81:3)
at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:76:5)
at /Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:234:24
at Function.proto.process_params (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:312:12)
at /Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:228:12
at Function.match_layer (/Users/vats/Project/dealstan/forum/NodeBB/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:295:3)

[julian]

@vatsal Can you let us know your NodeBB and imgur plugin versions?

[ffmad]

@julian said:

Can you let us know your NodeBB and imgur plugin versions?

i have the same error, my forum is down after that

i have You are running NodeBB v0.5.2-dev. and imgur last version

edit :

[A Former User]

@ffmad, this is part of the reason it's never a good idea to run dev builds in production. You should pull from the v0.5.x branch.

[ffmad]

@Ted said:

@ffmad, this is part of the reason it's never a good idea to run dev builds in production. You should pull from the v0.5.x branch.

the v.0.5.x branch wasn't working at all compared to this dev version

[vatsal]

upgrading to the latest version of nodebb-theme-lavender fixed this issue

[A Former User]

@ffmad there had been a bad commit pushed a while back, but I've done a few pulls from v0.5.x and they've all been stable.
@vatsal, good to hear that you resolved the matter.