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🌐JSON: What is API Injection?

Web APIs Injection Attacks

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Wajid Khan
Jan 11, 2023
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APIs are an essential part of many websites, allowing developers to create applications that can interact with a web service. Unfortunately, they can be vulnerable to attacks and misuse. One of the most common types of attacks is an API injection attack.

🚨 API injection occurs when the user sends malicious code with the API request as part of the request body or query parameter.

Most of the time, the code is a database query that executes and corrupts the database.

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