More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries.

An important aspect of database security is designing your applications to avoid SQL injection attacks. SQL injection is a form of web hacking whereby SQL statements are specified in the fields of a ...

After all of these years, SQL injection vulnerabilities still stand as an old reliable for attackers seeking to break into corporate databases. "SQL injection is still out there for one simple reason: ...

In response to this, the application security SaaS company Indusface has detailed the potential financial impact of SQL Injection attacks on businesses. Additionally, they offer best practices to help ...

Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software that can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable servers. A threat ...

[The following is excerpted from "Anatomy Of A SQL Injection Attack," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Database Security Tech Center.] It started with a vulnerability on a password ...

In an attempt to mitigate the impact of the recent waves of SQL injection attacks, and provide more transparency into the approximate number of affected pages, the Shadowserver Foundation is starting ...

Mike Chapple is a teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. On Dec. 26, 2007, Albert Gonzalez, a 28-year-old resident of Miami, launched an attack against the ...

CISA and the FBI urged executives of technology manufacturing companies to prompt formal reviews of their organizations' software and implement mitigations to eliminate SQL injection (SQLi) security ...

The huge data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems and other retailers resulted from SQL injection attacks and could finally push retailers to deal with Web application security flaws. This week’s ...