Skip to content

SQL Injection Detection

sql-injection-detection-c is a critical severity check in the web category, written in c. Its source is templates/web/injection/sql-injection-detection.c in cert-x-gen-templates.

Detects SQL injection vulnerabilities through error-based and blind injection techniques

Field Value
Id sql-injection-detection-c
Severity critical
Language c
Category web
Author CERT-X-GEN Security Team
Template version 1.0.0
Confidence 90
CVSS 9.8
Weakness CWE-89
Tags sql-injection, injection, database, sqli, cwe-89, web
Target kind not recorded
Oracle not recorded

Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a template cites are surfaced.

To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:

Terminal window
cxg template info sql-injection-detection-c

The id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See cxg template for the rest of the subcommand, Scan a target for running a scan, and A match is not a finding for how to read what comes back.