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What kind of attacks result in an attacker only being able to leak a site's database?

Of the public disclosures I've seen from recently compromised sites, it seems common for only the database to be leaked, rather than the application code, or rather than a complete takeover. Is this ...
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How to make SQL injection in PostgreSQL's tsquery?

I think there is SQL injection vulnerability in an application I'm testing. This is seen when I enter malformed parameters into a search form. All exceptions are shown in format: PHP raised unknown ...
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Limiting database security

A number of texts signify that the most important aspects offered by a DBMS are availability, integrity, and secrecy. As part of a homework assignment I have been tasked with mentioning attacks which ...
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SQL injection — but why isn't escape quotes safe anymore?

I haven't seen this question asked, and feel it's a valuable bit of information to have, especially because this is a huge source of mystery and confusion. Raw SQL When you're writing SQL -- for ...