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Why does browser block cross-origin requests if there is no access to the stored tokens of the other sites anyway?

I am trying to understand the web browser behavior in the case of cross-origin requests. Simply put, I’ve already know that modern browsers use preflight requests (i.e. OPTIONS) to ask server if cross-origin requests are allowed. If the destination server does not respond with relevant Access-Control-Allow-* headers, the browser will block the original request. Typically, the articles on the Internet explain this behavior with the example where the user opens the malicious site in one of his browser tabs being already signed in in his bank app in another tab. It is claimed that blocking the cross-origin requests by default prevents malicious site from secretly withdraw money from user’s bank account. However, this operation cannot be done without an authorization token, and the malicious site does not have one because it is stored in the local storage of the bank app tab to which the malicious site does not have access to. If so, why do we need these restrictions for web browses? Looks like they prevent attacks that are not possible anyway. The only example that came to my mind is that malicious site can somehow trick the user to input his credentials from his bank account and try to sign in with them.

how solve CORS error withot chorom plugin

“I have a website that uses an API, but when a user opens my site, it encounters a CORS error. Can you guide me on how to resolve it? I wrote it in JavaScript.”

Getting Error CORS Policy: Angular and Spring Boot

I am getting the following error :
Access to XMLHttpRequest at ‘http://localhost:8080/basicauth’ from origin ‘http://localhost:4200’ has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn’t pass access control check: No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource.