As mentioned, CORS isn't designed to protect against requests where the response isn't read by another origin's JS. Even with fetch I think you could "bypass" C

As mentioned, CORS isn't designed to protect against requests where the response isn't read by another origin's JS. Even with fetch I think you could "bypass" CORS to the same extent as this example by passing the "no-cors" mode. This is just a CSRF issue, which is well understood and easily fixed with a CSRF/authenticity token. Also, GET requests should not have side effects like sending an email. A reasonable default seen in some frameworks is GET requests have no side effects and don't require CSRF tokens, while all other verbs do.