Injection Attacks: The Complete 2020 Guide

SQLMap

Knowing how to perform attacks by hand is important because:

1. You may not always be able to use automated tools
    
2. SQLMap still needs some manual inputs, especially to find an original entry point
    
3. Tools can leave a very heavy footprint behind

Under the hood, SQLMap automatically:

• Identifies vulnerable parameters
   
• Identifies SQL injection techniques to use based on the DBMS
   
• Fingerprints the back-end DBMS to gather information
   
• Enumerates data and could take over the database server as a whole