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Detecting SQL Injection
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Detecting SQL Injection

EasyPython

Problem

Arch Capital is reviewing user-supplied text before it reaches a security filter. Write a function that detects whether an input string contains likely SQL injection patterns.

Given a string text, return True if it contains a suspicious SQL injection pattern, otherwise return False.

A string is considered suspicious if, after lowercasing it, it contains any of the following:

  1. A SQL comment marker: --, /*, or */
  2. A statement separator: ;
  3. A tautology pattern such as or 1=1 or or '1'='1'
  4. A SQL keyword sequence commonly used in injection attempts, such as union select, drop table, or insert into

Treat repeated spaces, tabs, and newlines as whitespace. Matching should be case-insensitive.

Constraints

  • 1 <= len(text) <= 10^4
  • text contains printable ASCII characters and whitespace
  • Matching is case-insensitive
  • Return a boolean value

Function Signature

def detect_sql_injection(text):
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