Timing-based attacks rely on the database taking longer to respond to some queries than others, while Boolean attacks use a large number of yes/no questions to eventually home in on a specific value. Second-order SQLi Similar to stored XSS, second-order SQL injection payloads can also be ...
In theprevious articleswe’ve talked aboutSQL injectionanddynamic SQLbut we lacked an answer on how to prevent SQL injection attacks. Today we’ll do exactly that and show you one possible approach to how to do it. We’ll also mention other possible threats and approaches you could take. D...
Timing-based attacks rely on the database taking longer to respond to some queries than others, while Boolean attacks use a large number of yes/no questions to eventually home in on a specific value. Second-order SQLi Similar to stored XSS, second-order SQL injection payloads can also be ...
OK, so we know what SQL is and that WordPress relies on it. We also know that attackers take advantage of SQL vulnerabilities. I’ve collected 11 tips for keeping your WordPress site free of SQL injections. The tips limit your vulnerability and secure your site from SQL injection attacks. ...
What exactly is going on in the background that makes it soSQLParameterprevents SQL Inection attacks in a .NET Parameterized query? Is it just stripping out any suspect characters or is there something more to it? Has anyone out there checked to see what actually gets to SQL Server when yo...
The primary reason SQL injection attacks succeed is due to vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are lapses in code, whether in the core, plugins, or themes. While we’ll dive into the details of how SQL injection exploits work later in the article, it’s important to understand that vulnerabi...
And listen to the good folks from OWASP when they tell you “It’s somewhat shameful that there are so many successful SQL Injection attacks occurring, because it is EXTREMELY simple to avoid SQL injection vulnerabilities in your code.” [their emphasis] The OWASP SQL injection cheat...
SQL Injection Attacks & How to Prevent Them Reading Time: 3 min(s) The danger of SQL attacks. SQL attacks are among the most common threats to application security today. It takes relatively little skill to mount anSQL injection in .NET, Java or PHP, and the rewards for hackers are sign...
Another tip to prevent WordPress SQL injection attacks is to limit user access to your website. For instance, if you have amulti-author blog, then you will have various authors along with subscribers and administrators. In that case, you can improve site security by limiting the full admin ...
2. How Applications Become Vulnerable to SQL Injection? Injection attacks work because, for many applications, the only way to execute a given computation is to dynamically generate code that is in turn run by another system or component. If in the process of generating this code we use untrus...