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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers
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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

by Himanshu Sharma, Joe Marshall
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners

Code injection is when unvalidated data is added (injected) into a vulnerable program and executed. Injection can occur in SQL, NoSQL, LDAP, XPath, NoSQL, XML parsers, and even through SMTP headers.

The XSS vulnerabilities discussed in the previous chapter are also examples of code injection. When an unsanitized HTML tag with malicious code in its attribute is added to a web application's database via a comment thread or discussion board submission, that code is injected into the application and executed when other users view that same comment or discussion.

For the purposes of this chapter though, we're going to focus on detecting and preventing code injection attacks related to databases—SQL and NoSQL, ...

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