SQL injection is a code injection technique, used to attack data driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution.

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SQL Injection - Validating user supplied input

I was assigned a task to fix the SQL injection flaw reported by a code analysis tool and I am not the original author of the code and I do have fair amount of knowledge on SQL. ...
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Secure login system

The assignment is to create a login system secured for SQL injections and XSS. It's in PHP and I'm using PDO with prepared statements obviously. Which from my point of view should protect against the ...
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A very secure procedural MySQLI login script against injections

I know there are other ways to create a login script like Object Oriented, Prepared Statements and PDO, but how about those old MySQL PHP users like me trying to change from old style to the new ways? ...
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For a login portal, what security measures are needed to prevent unauthorized access?

I'm designing a login portal that has one angularjs page that displays/processes data queried from a database. I'm relying on a few php pages (a loginpage.php [verifies credentials/loads session ...
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How do i add prepared statements to this php code?

I'm really a newbie with code, and I wish to prepare all my statements to avoid SQL injection. I have searched a lot on the internet, but this wrapper/API doesn't look anything like the examples ...
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Preventing SQL injection by converting all characters to their ASCII values

Scenario In order to prevent SQL injection, I'm converting every character of a string to be inserted in the database into its ASCII value before performing the query; in order to read the value of ...
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Prepared Statements / MySQLi / PHP Registration/Login Form

I'm just looking for some feedback here. I'm fairly new to MySQLi & PHP, but I've been working at it for a bit now, and reading up on how to make secure login forms, avoid SQL injection etc. I'm a ...
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Securing a form with image uploads

I am using PDO prepared statements to store user entered input and store that input to the database. The code will store a text input and 5 uploaded images. Will this code protect from data SQL ...
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SQL - Dynamic, avoiding SQL Injection [closed]

Aim: Dynamic SQL based on user input Use: User search boxes to get a result Query/Review Question: Does the below leave the code exposed to SQL Injection attacks? ...
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Possible SQL injection vulnerability searching for a product by ID?

I want to be sure that this isn't vulnerable to SQL injection. If yes, then how can it be improved? ...
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Inserting e-mail subscribers into MySQL

I'm new to Python and I am learning database connections from here. This is the code I am using to insert e-mail subscribers into a table: ...
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Calling a MySQL procedure with an arbitrary parameter on a GoDaddy website

I'm deploying a PHP project, and I always try to use prepared statements, but unfortunately, GoDaddy does not have the mod mysqlnd which I use it for the function ...
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Is this query really vulnerable?

Is the following query is vulnerable in terms of $itemstatus? I want to be sure about it. $yesorno is a user input which is ...
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Converting multiple query to use parameters to avoid SQL injection

I have some dropdownlist in my aspx page and I am using the choices from them in my SQL query: ...
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XSS Vulnerability on website

I'm using these functions to filter my all input variables. ...
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Does this code avoid SQL injection?

I have the following PHP code but I'm unsure, based on the many things I've read, whether or not this is actually safe from an SQL injection attack. ...
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Secure way to store passwords

Here I'm trying to develop a simple framework for my own purpose. I'm using PHP and PDO. But, I'm still worried about my password security codes. Below I have posted my codes. it stored like these in ...
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Inserting 1 line into my SQL database

This is for adding code into my table really easily, however it will be called 2000+ times per second, so I need to know if this is the most efficient code to add a row to the database. ...
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Regex to validate font names

/((([\w -]+)|("[\w -]+"))( *, *)?)+/ http://refiddle.com/18ql I'm trying to use a PHP regex to sanitize a user input for a list of fonts. The above one seems to ...
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SQL injection safety check

I was wondering if my code is safe for sql injection. This code just checks if the username exists in my db or not. ...
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User registration and login

I am doubtful about the security of my PHP code. I am new to programming, but want to learn how to secure things, protect my databases from SQL injection, and other best practices. I'd like to know if ...
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POST security with PDO?

So I have some code that works as PDO. But is it secure? I'm trying to prevent SQL injection. This is my first PDO script and was hoping to see if it was done correctly. Here it is. ...
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Injections and query

I made a class that connects to my DB and inserts some values. Is it secure or how can I protect this further from injections? The object declaration will come from variables with POST from a form, ...
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SQL Injection when not using variables

Do I still need to protect my code against SQL injection when I'm not using variables in SQL queries? Is this code still vulnerable?: ...
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Where to protect DB data against XSS injections?

To protect my web site against XSS injection, I am using OWASP Encoding Project. Is it a good idea to protect all data retrieved in my DB to avoid XSS by going throuh all the data just returned by ...
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How is my injection protection?

What do I need to do to prevent injections? In addition, if I have any statement/parameter errors, please tell me. ...
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How safe is my MySQL query?

I am using PDO for the first time in my project. In my previous project someone suggested me to use PDO as my queries were wide open to inject. I am pasting a sample code of my project. Can you ...
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Is this function vulnerable to SQL injection?

I've this function to list products from database by category. I'm using prepared statements but wouldn't this make it pretty pointless to use them? ...
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Creating ADODB Parameters on the fly

I have put together a small wrapper class to simplify creating parameterized ADODB queries with VB6/VBA. At this point I'm keeping things simple, so it's only supporting input parameters and from what ...
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Making VBA generated dynamic SQL statements safe against injection

I need to use SQL extensively in VBA macros that I write. Since the DB is from our enterprise application, I use vendor's library for this. I generate dynamic queries, sometimes with many ...
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Using POST data to call a function from a specified class

I've inherited a class in a project which is purposed to execute a function that exists in POST data from a specified class. I've tried to clean this up as much as possible as well as secure it ...
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Adding entries to an MS Access file using OleDB

In the following piece of code I am adding entries to an MS Access file using OleDB. The purpose of this post is to point out my bad programming practices and if I have created any security flaws ...
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Using OLEDB to connect to a MS Access 2007 file

I am working on a program which use OLEDB to connect to a MS Access 2007 file. My program has a possibility to add and delete records from file by using SQL statements which select deleted item by ID. ...