How to Check Text for SQL Injection Attacks in JavaScript

Did you know that if the field of an online form is coded incorrectly, it can provide an opening for a malicious user to inject SQL commands? Through this SQL injection method, the system will consider the commands valid and return a response containing information that can be leveraged to access sensitive data and manipulate, modify, or destroy it from there. To ensure your system doesn’t fall prey to these attacks, you can utilize the following API in JavaScript to automatically detect SQL injection threats from a single text input.

To begin, we will need to install the jQuery library:

bower install jquery

After the installation is complete, we can call the validation function:

var settings = {
     "url": "https://api.cloudmersive.com/validate/text-input/check/sql-injection",
     "method": "POST",
     "timeout": 0,
     "headers": {
          "detectionLevel": "<string>",
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "Apikey": "YOUR-API-KEY-HERE"
     },
     "data": JSON.stringify("<string>"),
};
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
     console.log(response);
});

The returned response will indicate if a SQL injection attack was located in the target text. To retrieve your API key, visit the Cloudmersive website to register for a free account; this will provide 800 calls/month across our library of APIs.