Disable CSRF validation for individual actions in Yii2

For the specific controller / actions you can disable CSRF validation like so:

use Yii;

...

Yii::$app->controller->enableCsrfValidation = false;

Or inside a controller:

$this->enableCsrfValidation = false;

Take a look at $enableCsrfValidation property of yii\web\Controller.

Update:

Here is some specification.

If you want to disable CSRF validation for individual action(s) you need to do it in beforeAction event handler because CSRF token is checked before action runs (in beforeAction of yii\web\Controller).

/**
 * @inheritdoc
 */
public function beforeAction($action)
{            
    if ($action->id == 'my-method') {
        $this->enableCsrfValidation = false;
    }

    return parent::beforeAction($action);
}

Official docs:

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