Dark Reading reported on Dec. 10 that a massive SQL injection attack had reached 132,000 sites, infecting Web sites with code that installed backdoor Trojans.

SQL injection exploit flaws that execute malicious code through strings that are entered into forms contained on a vulnerable website. The flaws are the result of a failure to filter out commands.

SQL injection occurs when user-supplied input is not escaped properly when it is inserted into an SQL statement. Since single quotes (') are used to delimit string literals, proper handling is ...

However, the problem of SQL Injection isn’t so small; in fact, this problem has existed since 1998. Part of the reason SQL Injection exists is because on the criminal’s end, it works.

Vulnerabilities here led to an extensive code review and development refresh. After the SQL injection attacks, Kerber found that the quality-assurance procedures needed work.

The problem lies in how internal plugin functions handle this code. For example, %s will be converted to '%s' and effectively break the SQL query this string is inserted into.

Authenticated users with low privileges in the system can submit manipulated SQL queries and thus smuggle unauthorized code from the network to the HCX Manager (CVE-2024-38814, CVSS 8.8, risk ...

SQL-injection attacks have become a worldwide problem in the last eight months or so. They have commonly affected Web sites built using Microsoft's popular ASP or ASP.NET code, or code enabling ...

An SQL injection is a code injection technique in which an attacker inserts malicious code into an SQL backend database to allow manipulation of the database, including the theft of stored data.