SQL injection
Summary: SQL injection lets an attacker extract an entire database from a vulnerable website, including user information, encrypted passwords, and business data, and many such vulnerabilities can be found and abused with off-the-shelf tools. PortSwigger says the flaws arise when user-controllable data is incorporated into database queries unsafely, and that victims are often unaware exploitation occurred, sometimes learning of it many months or years later.
What you should know: PortSwigger notes victims often do not learn of SQL injection exploitation until many months or years after attackers have stolen their data, so a breach you have not detected may already be long finished.
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