Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks in Web Browsers

2016 ◽  
pp. 174-208
Author(s):  
Kannan Balasubramanian
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Query Language ◽  
User Input ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Structured Query Language ◽  
User Data ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks

Applications that operate on the Web often interact with a database to persistently store data. For example, if an e-commerce application needs to store a user's credit card number, they typically retrieve the data from a Web form (filled out by the customer) and pass that data to some application or script running on the company's server. The dominant language that these database queries are written in is SQL, the Structured Query Language. Web applications can be vulnerable to a malicious user crafting input that gets executed on the server. One instance of this is an attacker entering Structured Query Language (SQL) commands into input fields, and then this data being used directly on the server by a Web application to construct a database query. The result could be an attacker's gaining control over the database and possibly the server. Care should be taken to validate user input on the server side before user data is used.

Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks in Web Browsers

2018 ◽  
pp. 1240-1274
Author(s):  
Kannan Balasubramanian
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Query Language ◽  
User Input ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Structured Query Language ◽  
User Data ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks

Applications that operate on the Web often interact with a database to persistently store data. For example, if an e-commerce application needs to store a user's credit card number, they typically retrieve the data from a Web form (filled out by the customer) and pass that data to some application or script running on the company's server. The dominant language that these database queries are written in is SQL, the Structured Query Language. Web applications can be vulnerable to a malicious user crafting input that gets executed on the server. One instance of this is an attacker entering Structured Query Language (SQL) commands into input fields, and then this data being used directly on the server by a Web application to construct a database query. The result could be an attacker's gaining control over the database and possibly the server. Care should be taken to validate user input on the server side before user data is used.

Bind but Dynamic Technique

2009 ◽  
pp. 880-890
Author(s):  
Ahmad Hammoud ◽  
Ramzi A. Haraty
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Efficient Solution ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Dynamic Technique ◽  
Structured Query Language ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks ◽  
Web Developers

Most Web developers underestimate the risk and the level of damage that might be caused when Web applications are vulnerable to SQL (structured query language) injections. Unfortunately, Web applications with such vulnerability constitute a large part of today’s Web application landscape. This article aims at highlighting the risk of SQL injection attacks and provides an efficient solution.

scholarly journals Neutralizing SQL Injection Attack on Web Application Using Server Side Code Modification

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Sarjiyus O. ◽  
El-Yakub M. B.
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Security ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Sql Injection Attack ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks ◽  
Code Modification

SQL Injection attacks pose a very serious security threat to Web applications and web servers. They allow attackers to obtain unrestricted access to the databases underlying the applications and to the potentially sensitive and important information these databases contain. This research, “Neutralizing SQL Injection attack on web application using server side code modification” proposes a method for boosting web security by detecting SQL Injection attacks on web applications by modification on the server code so as to minimize vulnerability and mitigate fraudulent and malicious activities. This method has been implemented on a simple website with a database to register users with an admin that has control privileges. The server used is a local server and the server code was written with PHP as the back end. The front end was designed using MySQL. PHP server side scripting language was used to modify codes. ‘PDO prepare’ a tool to prepare parameters to be executed. The proposed method proved to be efficient in the context of its ability to prevent all types of SQL injection attacks. Acunetix was used to test the vulnerability of the code, and the code was implemented on a simple website with a simple database. Some popular SQL injection attack tools and web application security datasets have been used to validate the model. Unlike most approaches, the proposed method is quite simple to implement yet highly effective. The results obtained are promising with a high accuracy rate for detection of SQL injection attack.

scholarly journals Neutralizing SQL Injection Attack Using Server Side Code Modification in Web Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asish Kumar Dalai ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Jena
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Web Application Security ◽  
Application Security ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Sql Injection Attack ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks

Reports on web application security risks show that SQL injection is the top most vulnerability. The journey of static to dynamic web pages leads to the use of database in web applications. Due to the lack of secure coding techniques, SQL injection vulnerability prevails in a large set of web applications. A successful SQL injection attack imposes a serious threat to the database, web application, and the entire web server. In this article, the authors have proposed a novel method for prevention of SQL injection attack. The classification of SQL injection attacks has been done based on the methods used to exploit this vulnerability. The proposed method proves to be efficient in the context of its ability to prevent all types of SQL injection attacks. Some popular SQL injection attack tools and web application security datasets have been used to validate the model. The results obtained are promising with a high accuracy rate for detection of SQL injection attack.

SQL Injection Attacks Countermeasures

2012 ◽  
pp. 194-213
Author(s):  
Kasra Amirtahmasebi ◽  
Seyed Reza Jalalinia
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Confidential Information ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Prevention Techniques ◽  
Sql Injection Attack ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks ◽  
The Web

Due to the huge growth in the need for using Web applications worldwide, there have been huge efforts from programmers to develop and implement new Web applications to be used by companies. Since a number of these applications lack proper security considerations, malicious users will be able to gain unauthorized access to confidential information of organizations. A concept called SQL Injection Attack (SQLIA) is a prevalent method used by attackers to extract the confidential information from organizations’ databases. They work by injecting malicious SQL codes through the web application, and they cause unexpected behavior from the database. There are a number of SQL Injection detection/prevention techniques that must be used in order to prevent unauthorized access to databases.

scholarly journals A Learning-based Neural Network Model for the Detection and Classification of SQL Injection Attacks

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naghmeh Moradpoor Sheykhkanloo
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Query Language ◽  
False Positive Rate ◽  
True Positive Rate ◽  
Injection Technique ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Positive Rate ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks

Structured Query Language injection (SQLi) attack is a code injection technique where hackers inject SQL commands into a database via a vulnerable web application. Injected SQL commands can modify the back-end SQL database and thus compromise the security of a web application. In the previous publications, the author has proposed a Neural Network (NN)-based model for detections and classifications of the SQLi attacks. The proposed model was built from three elements: 1) a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) generator, 2) a URL classifier, and 3) a NN model. The proposed model was successful to: 1) detect each generated URL as either a benign URL or a malicious, and 2) identify the type of SQLi attack for each malicious URL. The published results proved the effectiveness of the proposal. In this paper, the author re-evaluates the performance of the proposal through two scenarios using controversial data sets. The results of the experiments are presented in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model in terms of accuracy, true-positive rate as well as false-positive rate.

scholarly journals Models and scenarios of implementation of threats for internet resources

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 9-33
Author(s):  
S. A. Lesko
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Web Resource ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Sql Injections ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks ◽  
Client Side ◽  
Cross Site ◽  
The Web

To facilitate the detection of various vulnerabilities, there are many different tools (scanners) that can help analyze the security of web applications and facilitate the development of their protection. But these tools for the most part can only identify problems, and they are not capable of fixing them. Therefore, the knowledge of the security developer is a key factor in building a secure Web resource. To resolve application security problems, developers must know all the ways and vectors of various attacks in order to be able to develop various protection mechanisms. This review discusses two of the most dangerous vulnerabilities in the field of Web technologies: SQL injections and XSS attacks (cross-site scripting – XSS), as well as specific cases and examples of their application, as well as various approaches to identifying vulnerabilities in applications and threat prevention. Cross-site scripting as well as SQL-injection attacks are related to validating input data. The mechanisms of these attacks are very similar, but in the XSS attacks the user is the victim, and in the SQL injection attacks, the database server of the Web application. In XSS attacks, malicious content is delivered to users by means of a client-side programming language such as JavaScript, while using SQL injection, the SQL database query language is used. At the same time, XSS attacks, unlike SQL injections, harm only the client side leaving the application server operational. Developers should develop security for both server components and the client part of the web application.

A Research of the Essence of SQL Injection Attacks Vulnerability

2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 935-940
Author(s):  
Min Wan ◽  
Kun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Static Analysis ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Semantic Gap ◽  
Sql Injection ◽  
Injection Attacks ◽  
Web System ◽  
Sql Injection Attacks ◽  
Filtering Techniques

Semantic Gap problem is the essence of the SQL Injection Attacks vulnerability in Web applications. Web application loses the semantic information while the SQL statement is constructed dynamically. This paper analyzes the cause of the SQLIA vulnerability. And then it analyzes several suggested techniques, such as the filtering techniques and the static analysis, and points out their drawbacks in the SOLIA prevention, which leads to the conclusion that the key problem for the eradication of SQLIA is to solve the semantic gap problem causing by the unstructured SQL statement in the process of constructing a Web system dynamically.

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