Open your application, please, and in any textbox that is used for a SELECT
operation, enter this: "'] (exactly as I typed - double quote, single quote,
close square bracket). And please let me know what happened.

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Dibble
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:30 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Questions on migrating VFP app


> > In order to execute code that modifies a table you have to have a 
> > valid EXECUTABLE statement, right?
> >
> > So something like "DROP TABLE" would be a bad thing. What I don't 
> > understand is how any sane person would design a query interface 
> > that results in a statement like "DROP TABLE" being *executed*.
>----------------------
>
><http://ferruh.mavituna.com/sql-injection-cheatsheet-oku/>

Well yeah, if you have complete unfettered access to a server you can, I
imagine, run any number of horrible exectable statements on it. However it
would appear that all of these multitudinous examples rely on just two basic
obvious dimwitted moves:

1. Allowing somebody to type in the name of a table or field instead of
making them choose it from a list of valid options.

2. Somehow allowing strings to be entered into a SQL statement without
enclosing them in appropriate delimiters.

So again I ask, why would anybody design a data-entry or query interface
that lets people do that?

Ken Dibble
www.stic-cil.org



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