SQL INJECTIONS – A THREAT TO WEB APPLICATIONS

Author’s Name : Juhi Gupta | Ruchi Singhal

Volume 02 Issue 01  Year 2015  ISSN No:  2349-3828  Page no: 34-37

Abstract -SQL injections have become a serious threat to the integrity, confidentiality and security of web applications. Attackers can gain unauthorized access to the database and can cause serious damage to the web application. Researchers have proposed various solutions to this problem. Many tools have also been devised to deal with this problem but each come with a limitation. In this paper, study about SQL injections has been done. Various types of SQL injection and tools to counter them has been discussed in this paper. For each technique, we have discussed its strengths and weaknesses in addressing the entire range of SQL injection attacks.

Keywords –SQL Injection Attacks (SQLIA); query; database; web application