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## Unsolicited Response (ie. IdP Initiated SSO) Considerations for Service Providers

Unsolicited Response is inherently less secure by design due to the lack of **login [CSRF](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/csrf)** protection. This limitation arises because the Service Provider (SP) has no opportunity to create a pre-login session or verify that the authentication request was intentionally initiated by the user.
Unsolicited Response is inherently less secure by design due to the lack of **login [CSRF](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html#possible-csrf-vulnerabilities-in-login-forms)** protection. This limitation arises because the Service Provider (SP) has no opportunity to create a pre-login session or verify that the authentication request was intentionally initiated by the user.

While this design does not make IdP-initiated SSO uniquely vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks—those risks apply equally to SP-initiated flows if transport security is compromised—it does remove an important layer of login intent validation.

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