Which characters are actually capable of causing SQL injection in MySQL?

An obligatory addendum from 2020: Dealing with characters was proven to be inefficient and obsoleted You must use prepared statements and forget about escaping, “dangerous characters” or any of that business. Using parameterized queries is considered the only proper way to protect from SQL injections, for the reasons provided in the original answer below: Which … Read more

Site has been hacked via SQL Injection

It looks like an overflow attack. They UNION-ed with your existing query. replacing all your %20 with (space) since its url-encoded yields: =-999.9 UNION ALL SELECT CONCAT(0x7e,0x27,Hex(cast(database() as char)),0x27,0x7e),0x31303235343830303536,0x31303235343830303536,0x31303235343830303536- break it down: the =-999.9 is just ending your current query 0x31303235343830303536 is NULL – they are just matching the number of columns in your existing … Read more

Confusion between prepared statement and parameterized query in Python

Prepared statement: A reference to a pre-interpreted query routine on the database, ready to accept parameters Parametrized query: A query made by your code in such a way that you are passing values in alongside some SQL that has placeholder values, usually ? or %s or something of that flavor. The confusion here seems to … Read more

How to prevent sql-injection in nodejs and sequelize? [closed]

Sequelize escapes replacements, which avoids the problem at the heart of SQL injection attacks: unescaped strings. It also supports binding parameters when using SQLite or PostgreSQL, which alleviates the risk further by sending the parameters to the database separately to the query, as documented here: Bind parameters are like replacements. Except replacements are escaped and … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)