PHP, MySql, and Injection
Inspired by Jack Daniel’s “Shoulders of InfoSec Project”, this post will be focused on the people and technologies behind one of the most prevalent attacks on web sites: SQL injection. According to OWASP, injection is the number one attack vector for web applications. Injection attacks can target many different contexts in a web application: HTML, PHP, ASP, Javascript, SQL, etc. Any context in which an interpreter parses input to execute instructions is potentially vulnerable to an injection attack. There are several - many, rather - excellent tutorials on Injection attacks available on the web. Here’s a brief selection of SQL injection attacks for reference: ...