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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 23 points 6 months ago

ADD FIELD PASSWORD VARCHAR(16)

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "$name" OR password = "$password"

[-] cron@feddit.org 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
sqlquery = "INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('" + username + "', '" + password + "')"

What could go wrong?

[-] Gremour@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Password=a");drop table users;--

Alas, it's longer than 16 characters. Protection works!

[-] _bcron@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

They often don't allow semicolons but it's never stopped me from checking

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