Suddenly, instead of seeing a product description or a blog post, the website displays the admin’s login credentials directly on the screen. Why It Matters
: This is a comment character in MySQL. It tells the database to ignore everything that comes after it, effectively cutting off the rest of the website's original, legitimate code. The "Aha!" Moment -9825 UNION ALL SELECT 34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34,34#
: The attacker is playing a guessing game. A UNION attack only works if both queries have the exact same number of columns . By repeating "34," the attacker is testing if the database table has 10 columns. If the page loads without an error, they’ve found the "shape" of the table. Suddenly, instead of seeing a product description or