Sql+injection+challenge+5+security+shepherd+new | ~repack~

Then she remembered the "new database schema" note. Legacy fields. What if the ORDER BY column, last_login , was vulnerable too? She couldn’t inject into it directly, but she could manipulate it by closing the WHERE clause and injecting into the ORDER BY using a with a CASE statement.

1/**/and/**/1=1 works beautifully.

If you enter 1 and 1=1 , the server might respond with a 200 OK. But if you enter a more complex payload like 1 UNION SELECT username FROM users , the filter kicks in. How do we bypass space filtering? sql+injection+challenge+5+security+shepherd+new

The search query is not using prepared statements here — the developer hand-wrote a LIKE clause directly inside the query string. The user_id=2 corresponds to the guest user. The admin’s user_id is almost certainly 1 . Then she remembered the "new database schema" note