Because a script (I assume you're referring to JavaScript) can't fill in a form on or read the contents of a third-party website. That's a violation of the same

Because a script (I assume you're referring to JavaScript) can't fill in a form on or read the contents of a third-party website. That's a violation of the same-origin policy. CSRF tokens are a well-understood solution to this issue. In order to submit a valid request, you must include what is essentially a secret token that is on the page (although the secret token can just be your session ID). For an attacker to get that token, they would need to be able to do at least one of the following: A. Guess it, by having you make multiple requests. (so you make the token long enough that it's infeasible to guess) B. Be able to read it by intercepting the HTTP response or reading it in some way, in which case you have much larger security issues. C. Be able to read the token in the HTTP request that the browser makes. Again, if an attacker can do this, your session is already compromised.