A Survey on the Detection of SQL Injection Attacks and Their Countermeasures
Bharti Nagpal, Naresh Chauhan, Nanhay Singh · Journal of Information Processing Systems · 2015
The Structured Query Language (SQL) Injection continues to be one of greatest security risks in the world according to the Open Web Application Security Project`s (OWASP) [1] Top 10 Security vulnerabilities 2013. The ease of exploitability and severe impact puts this attack at the top. As the countermeasures become more sophisticated, SOL Injection Attacks also continue to evolve, thus thwarting the attempt to eliminate this attack completely. The vulnerable data is a source of worry for government and financial institutions. In this paper, a detailed survey of different types of SQL Injection and proposed methods and theories are presented, along with various tools and their efficiency in intercepting and preventing SQL attacks.