Sql Injection Challenge 5 Security Shepherd [better]

SELECT * FROM challenge5 WHERE username = '$input';

Here's an example payload to get you started: Sql Injection Challenge 5 Security Shepherd

target_string = ""

SELECT user_id FROM users WHERE username = 'admin' = '1' AND password = '<pass>' SELECT * FROM challenge5 WHERE username = '$input';

But -- is not filtered. So why is Challenge 5 harder? Because it also masks output – but the bypass is trivial? No – the challenge description says “OR and AND are filtered” but -- works. So the difficulty is blind injection. Sql Injection Challenge 5 Security Shepherd

Your goal is to retrieve data from a hidden table (often called users or administrators ) without destroying the original query's integrity.