{"id":25074,"date":"2022-02-02T15:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T15:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/knowledge\/security-sql-injection-website-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:53:44","slug":"security-sql-injection-website-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/1grid.co.za\/knowledge\/security-sql-injection-website-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Security: SQL Injection &#8211; Website Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-identifyelement=\"445\"><p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">This article provides you with information regarding SQL injection vulnerability and how to prevent it from happening to you.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">What is SQL injection?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">SQL injection is an extremely damaging attack in which hackers will attempt to access information stored in your database, such as customer data or user IDs and passwords. SQL stands for Structured Query Language and is the programming language understood by databases. By inserting commands from this programming language into fields on your website&#8217;s input forms, hackers can gain access to the database records of vulnerable sites, stealing credit card data, passwords, e-mail addresses and any additional data available in the database.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">What is the impact?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The impacts of this type of attack can be devastating. Having stolen client information from a compromised website can be hard to recover from and possibly expensive depending on the information stolen. It will also badly damage your company&#8217;s reputation by exposing your customers&#8217; private data to criminals.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">How does cWatch Web Security help me ?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a nutshell<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/1-grid.com\/website-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sectigo cWatch<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">is a protection tool for your website against the increasing sophistication of hacker threats and malware. With this tool, websites are carefully scanned for any possible vulnerabilities through effective website security software. This software can scan for backdoor hacks, general hacks, spyware, Trojans, and many other threats.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">cWatch uses Web Application Firewall (WAF) to check and verify all the incoming data and assures to obstructs malicious code even before it tries to infect the website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">cWatch lets the user know if the website has an issue and provides proactive solutions to fix them.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article provides you with information regarding SQL injection vulnerability and how to prevent it from happening to you. What is SQL injection? 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