'Invalid security token' on Joomla login

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nasirkhan picture nasirkhan · Nov 13, 2014 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

I am getting the following error at the time of log in to my Joomla site. Though it is not showing this error all the time and i logged in successfully several times. What is the reason of this?

The most recent request was denied because it contained an invalid security token. Please refresh the page and try again.

Answer

isherwood picture isherwood · Nov 13, 2014

This usually occurs because you've tried to log in after backing up to the login page, where a token has already been stored. You can usually resolve it with a hard refresh (shift-refresh) or by clearing cookies.

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