What is the __RequestVerificationToken* cookie?
This is an anti-forgery cookie set by web applications built using ASP.NET MVC technologies. It is designed to stop unauthorised posting of content to a website, known as Cross-Site Request Forgery.
Our October 2026 scan found it on 3 sites (0% of the 2,450 we scanned), set before any consent.
- Purpose
- Functional
- Belongs to
- Microsoft
- Set as
- First-party (under the site's own domain)
- Typical lifetime
- Session (vendor says: session)
- Name
- A family of cookies: the part after __RequestVerificationToken varies by site or account.
Sites that set __RequestVerificationToken* before consent
The highest-ranked 3 of 3 sites.
- adp.com6 tracking companies
- heart.org5 tracking companies
- eastmoney.com0 tracking companies
Related cookies
Other cookies from Microsoft.
- MUID38 sites
- ASP.NET_SessionId23 sites
- _uetsid22 sites
- _uetvid21 sites
- MR16 sites
How to stop it
Declining non-essential cookies in a site's consent banner should stop __RequestVerificationToken* being set on later visits. Blocking third-party cookies in your browser settings stops the third-party kind everywhere, and clearing cookies for a site removes any it already set.
Description from the Open Cookie Database (Apache 2.0).
Understanding this page
- How cookie lifetimes work, and why a 13-month _ga matters
What a cookie's "expires" field actually controls, why Google Analytics ships a 2-year default that many sites cut down to 13 months, and how Safari's 7-day cap on script-set cookies changes the picture.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.