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Lab: SQL injection attack, querying the database type and version on Oracle

I | Last updated: Sep 04, 2023 06:45PM UTC

Hello there, I don't know if this legal but I'm going to write exactly what I did and the error I encountered (It doesn't say I have solved the lab). So I determined the number of columns required for the Query and determined which one is of the string data type. Having done that, I queried the database and retrieved the string (database type and version on Oracle) and it returned successfully in the application response. However it doesn't say I have solved the lab. The following is/are the commands I used which will reproduce the error I faced: 'UNION SELECT 'Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production, PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production, CORE 11.2.0.2.0 Production, TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production, NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production', NULL FROM dual --

Ben, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Sep 05, 2023 09:05AM UTC

Hi, What you are seeing being displayed on the page is simply the query that you are running - to solve the lab you need to actually run a query that returns the database version information from the database itself (the solution and the SQL Injection cheat sheet run through this in more detail).

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