SQL Injection Tutorial: Learn with Example By HTTricks Reborn

What is a SQL Injection?

SQL Injection is an attack that poisons dynamic SQL statements to comment out certain parts of the statement or appending a condition that will always be true. It takes advantage of the design flaws in poorly designed web applications to exploit SQL statements to execute malicious SQL code.
In this tutorial, you will learn SQL Injection techniques and how you can protect web applications from such attacks.

How SQL Injection Works
The types of attacks that can be performed using SQL injection vary depending on the type of database engine. The attack works on dynamic SQL statements. A dynamic statement is a statement that is generated at run time using parameters password from a web form or URI query string.

Let’s consider a simple web application with a login form. The code for the HTML form is shown below.

<form action=‘index.php’ method="post">

<input type="email" name="email" required="required"/>

<input type="password" name="password"/>

<input type="checkbox" name="remember_me" value="Remember me"/>

<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>

</form>

HERE,

The above form accepts the email address, and password then submits them to a PHP file named index.php.
It has an option of storing the login session in a cookie. We have deduced this from the remember_me checkbox. It uses the post method to submit data. This means the values are not displayed in the URL.

Let’s suppose the statement at the backend for checking user ID is as follows

SELECT * FROM users WHERE email = $_POST['email'] AND password = md5($_POST['password']);