SQL Injection: Protecting Your Application from Attacks
SQL injection poses a significant threat to database-driven applications that rely on SQL queries. The vulnerability lies in the lack of input sanitization, which allows attackers to manipulate the queries’ behavior. Let’s take a look at a simple Node.js example to understand how SQL injection can occur: const color = // coming from user input const query = `SELECT * FROM cars WHERE color = '${color}'` In this case, if the value of color is a legitimate color like “red” or “blue”, the query works as intended....