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SQL Injection in 2025: The Modern Attack Vectors You’re Missing
SQL injection has been around since the late 90s. It was literally vulnerability number one on the OWASP Top 10 for years. We’ve had decades to fix this problem.
And yet, here we are in 2025, still dealing with it.
In February 2025, a PostgreSQL vulnerability (CVE-2025–1094) with a CVSS score of 8.1 was discovered that bypassed supposedly safe string escaping routines. In May, a government portal was breached via SQL injection and leaked sensitive data. And let’s not forget the Zimbra mail server breach that exposed millions of users.
The problem isn’t that developers don’t know SQL injection exists. The problem is that the attack vectors have evolved while our defenses have stayed stuck in 2010.
Let me show you what’s actually happening in 2025 and how to protect your applications from attacks you probably don’t even know exist.
The Classic Attack Still Works (Because We’re Still Making the Same Mistakes)
Before we dive into the new stuff, let’s acknowledge the elephant in the room: the basic SQL injection attack from 25 years ago still works on countless production systems today.
