Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Joel Spolsky on website SQL injection.

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/01.html

11.3% of web applications have SQL injection vulnerabilities.

Joel wrote:

"
I tried to sign up for an online site. ... The signup page wanted a secret
question and secret answer. ... For the secret answer, I put "Aunt Vera
doesn't have a cat." And I got this:

1064: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near
't have a cat', 'male')' at line 1

This is an extremely common problem: Michael Sutton did a little research
project and found that 11.3% of web applications have SQL injection
vulnerabilities.
"

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