The Data Pirates’ Toolkit explores how SQLmap automates the discovery and exploitation of SQL injection vulnerabilities to access sensitive data like usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers. Using DVWA as a testing environment, the paper reviews insecure coding practices, weak input validation, and unsafe database queries that enable exploitation. It demonstrates SQLmap’s wide range of flags and techniques, from basic enumeration to advanced evasion tactics against WAFs, highlighting how attackers escalate from database extraction to system-level compromise with web shells and reverse shells. It concludes by emphasizing secure coding, input validation, and tools like Trustwave’s dbProtect to detect and prevent SQLi attacks.

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