• GBU_28
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    11 months ago

    Other reply s accurate but it’s always a good practice to include the semicolon else you can get

    “Bobby tables’ed” look that xkcd comic up

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      11 months ago

      I’m not sure how including a final semicolon can protect against an injection attack. In fact, the “Bobby Tables” attack specifically adds in a semicolon, to be able to start a new command. If inputs are sanitized, or much better, passed as parameters rather than string concatenated, you should be fine - nothing can be injected, regardless of the semicolon. If you concatenate untrusted strings straight into your query, an injection can be crafted to take advantage, with or without a semicolon.

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        11 months ago

        Yep it would only work if you didn’t sanitize a user input string in this case ‘nice’

        They could write ‘’; drop table blah;