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How to make a site vulnerable to SQLi?

I've recently taken an interest in SQL injections - it (for some reason, correct me if I'm wrong) seemed like a good place to start (I am pretty much a beginner). Anyways, I want to make a site that I ...
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A customers site had a big mysql injection attack on it, just want to learn from it

I created an online store for a friend of mine. I created a system that shoots me an email any time there is a database error, that way if it is a bug in my code I can identify it and fix it. The ...
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How do I make SQL injection harder but not impossible?

I'm doing a CTF application for my final year project. I wanted to craft a SQL injection flag but I don't wish that they can simply found out the SQLi vulnerability by injecting ' . Hence, is there ...
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Is there any SQL injection for this PHP login example?

I want to write a login form, and I got one example from the web. I want to know, if there is any SQL injection for this code? If there is, what could the exploit's web form entry look like? This is ...
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Mark parts of strings as unsafe?

Is there a smooth way to mark unsafe parts of a string? i.e. for use in SQL. example in php: someFunction("safe text" . $unsafeVariable . "safe text" . $anotherUnsafeVariable); Is there a smooth way ...
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XSS MySQL Database Accessible?

I'd like to know if there is any danger of someone being able to access the database via XSS vulnerabilities on this page. I have the following link. When you go to this link, the text I've enclosed ...
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how to find injected code in SQL

Recently one of my sites is hacked. The hacker used SQL injection to compromise the security. After getting SQL access he injected code in many places in database. I cleaned up many of them. But I am ...
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Admin area in my php website is vulnerable to sql injection without login [closed]

my website admin area is vulnerable to sql injection . I tried using havji and it hacked successfully to database. But how is this possible. without login it breaked into admin panel. ...
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My site just got hit with a SQL injection attack, how can I tell what they were doing?

So a page on my site (it's a PHP page that displays newsletter articles) was vulnerable to SQL injection and got hit. I discovered it because it was doing enough database queries to cause the CPU load ...
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SQLi-protection ORDER BY

What would be a good check to remove all possibility of SQL-injection on an ORDER BY col where col is an unsafe variable? I'm currently removing [^A-Za-z0-9_] from the string in php. Is this too ...
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What vulnerabilities in the OWASP Top 10 are relevant to WordPress?

I have been looking at the OWASP Top 10, and am wondering which of the top 10 security risks are relevant to a WordPress installation with various plugins installed? I know injections and XSS are ...
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I've heard that salt is not meant to be secret, but what if I made it secret? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Password Hashing add salt + pepper or is salt enough? How to store salt? Ok I have been studying a lot about password hashing lately. And I have a few questions. So I ...
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What exploit types do I need to protect against in PHP?

I recently learned that apparently, it is common for people to attempt SQL injections using the HTTP referrer in PHP. What other inputs do I need to protect against? I am currently "cleaning up" ...
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Comparison between Data Encryption Tools and Data Sanitization Tools [closed]

What are the famous Data Sanitization Tools for languages such as ASP/PHP/Html Web Sites? Which Data Sanitization tools have the best results? Difference between Data encryption and Data ...
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Potential insecurity in not sanitizing variables before INSERT with prepared statement in PDO

I use PDO with prepared statement when connecting to my database, and I do this because it is considered a safe way to do so, but one thing I could not help but to wonder was, can submitted data from ...
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How to properly secure a $_GET in PHP?

I found an SQLi in a buddies work site. He reported it to his superiors and they allowed me to run additional tests and also patch the site. After reviewing the site, The vulnerable code was a $_GET. ...
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Should IP addresses be validated to prevent SQL Injection?

In PHP I retrieve a user's IP address ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) to use it in some MySQL queries, but I do not validate them to be true IP addresses. Should I validate user IP addresses before using ...
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Strange Pharma Spam Site resulting from DAT file created by SQL Injection?

Working on cleaning up a site compromise for a client. Leaving aside that the site is using bunch of custom CodeIgniter code written by someone who had no concept of security, I've ran into a ...
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Could this login form be “hacked” to allow access?

We have this legacy website which has horrendous code in it. I have just been looking through the login form/code and can see un-sanitised sql queries. E.g. in a nutshell: $email=$_POST['email']; ...
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Why can't sqlmap find an SQL injection in my code?

I installed XAMPP on my development PC, and started Apache HTTP server and MySQL. It comes with a test page "CD collection", with the following back-end PHP code: mysql_query("DELETE FROM cds WHERE ...
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sanitizing input/output in php/codeigniter

I've been making some progress learning about web application security. Right now I'm trying to finalize my strategy for sanitizing input and output. Background: Users can submit reviews to the site, ...
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How anonymous used UTF-16 ASCII to fool PHP escaping [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How anonymous used UTF-16 ASCII to fool PHP escaping (Reposted here as per request). A few months ago, anonymous took down a child pornography site using SQL-injection. ...
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How did anonymous use UTF-16 ASCII to fool PHP escaping?

A few months ago, anonymous took down a child pornography site using SQL-injection. I read in this article that anonymous claimed that "the server was using hardened PHP with escaping," but they were ...
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How is my website vulnerable for sql injections?

I am running a small website where I have published some articles. I am also very interesed in security topics and tried sqlmap on my website. It found the database name, so my question is how it ...
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Multibyte character exploits - PHP/MySQL

Could someone please point me to a link with some information on multibyte character exploits for MySQL? A friend brought them to my attention, but I've not been able to find much information on the ...
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Do I have to make any more check if I use prepared statements for integers?

I am currently using PDO with prepared statements for some integer values (see PDO::PARAM_INT). That means I call PDO like this: $stmt = $conn->prepare("SELECT `lastMove` FROM ".GAMES_TABLE. ...
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Does mysql_escape_string have any security vulnerabilities if all tables using Latin1 encoding?

I have heard that the PHP function mysql_escape_string has security vulnerabilities related to mult-byte characters. Are there any vulnerabilities if all tables are using Latin1 encoding?
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Is this enough to tackle script / malicious code insertion in GET, POST requests?

I've got legacy PHP code which attempts to prevent script / SQL injection with the following: if (!empty($_POST)) { reset($_POST); while (list($k,$v)=each($_POST)) { ...