Does anyone know what something like OR 1# means in the context of MySQL injection?
2 Answers
It is MySQL's version of the line comment delimiter. In standard SQL, the line comment delimiter is --.
-- This is a standard SQL comment. # This is a MySQL comment. So in the context of SQL injection, if the attacker knows you're using MySQL he may use it to abruptly terminate the malicious SQL statement, causing MySQL to ignore whatever is behind the # and execute only the stuff that comes before it. This is only effective against single-line SQL statements, however. Here's an example:
Input:
Username:
fake' OR 1#
Password:pass
Resultant SQL:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = 'fake' OR 1#' AND password = 'pass' Which is executed as this, which returns every row:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = 'fake' OR 1 
Comments
This is the start of a comment. It means that anything after that will be skipped by the parser.
1 Comment
zerkms
@JD: a-ha, to protect against sql-injections we need more lines in our queries (irony) ;-)
#symbol has a few English names (number, octothorpe, hex, hash, sharp) that you can Google :)mysql hash symboland the second result formysql octothorpe.