SQL Injection-Biggest Vulnerability of the Era

EasyChair Preprint no. 4175

Abstract

the day we started using Database and SQL (Structured Query Language). SQL injection became one of the biggest vulnerabilities. Since 1998 which first SQL injection is discovered by Phrack magazine it becomes critical and affects a lot of web sites, a lot of countermeasures are taken but it still exists. It is also ranked No.1 in vulnerabilities by OWASP. Now let us explore briefly the details of SQL injection, methods of SQL injection and ways to protect a web site from SQL injection.

Keyphrases: critical data, database, query, SQL Injection, SQL Injection Attack, SQL Injection Vulnerability, Vulnerability, web application

@Booklet{EasyChair:4175,
  author = {Harshavardhan Gaddam and M. Maheshwari},
  title = {SQL Injection-Biggest Vulnerability of the Era},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 4175},

  year = {EasyChair, 2020}}