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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Learning Python Web Penetration Testing Automate web penetration testing activities using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789533972
Length 138 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Martorella Christian Martorella
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Detecting SQL injection issues

In this section, we're going to learn how to detect SQL injections and how to alternate this in Python. We're going to look at what the different methods for detecting an SQLi in a web application are. Then, we'll proceed to automate the detection of these issues based on one of the methods. Finally, we'll enumerate the columns used in the query and also identify valid column names in the table.

Methods for detecting SQLi

In order to detect SQLi, we have three methods available:

  • Error based: This method injects payloads that break out of the original query and generate an SQL error on the server, which can be detected in the content of the returned pages:
  • Boolean: This...
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