Sqlmap

* Major enhancement to get list of targets to test from Burp proxy (http://portswigger.net/suite/) requests log file path or WebScarab proxy (http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project) 'conversations/' folder path by providing option -l <filepath>;
* Major enhancement to support Partial UNION query SQL injection technique too;
* Major enhancement to test if the web application technology supports stacked queries (multiple statements) by providing option `--stacked-test` which will be then used someday also by takeover functionality;
* Major enhancement to test if the injectable parameter is affected by a time based blind SQL injection technique by providing option `--time-test`;
* Minor enhancement to fingerprint the web server operating system and the web application technology by parsing some HTTP response headers;
* Minor enhancement to fingerprint the back-end DBMS operating system by parsing the DBMS banner value when -b option is provided;
* Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds before timeout the connection by providing option `--timeout `, default is set to 10 seconds and must be 3 or higher;
* Minor enhancement to be able to specify the number of seconds to wait between each HTTP request by providing option `--delay `;
* Minor enhancement to be able to get the injection payload `--prefix` and `--postfix` from user;
* Minor enhancement to be able to enumerate table columns and dump table entries, also when the database name is not provided, by using the current database on MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server, the 'public' scheme on PostgreSQL and the 'USERS' TABLESPACE_NAME on Oracle;
* Minor enhancemet to support also `--regexp`, `--excl-str` and `--excl-reg` options rather than only `--string` when comparing HTTP responses page content;
* Minor enhancement to be able to specify extra HTTP headers by providing option `--headers`. By default Accept, Accept-Language and Accept-Charset headers are set;
* Minor improvement to be able to provide CU (as current user) as user value (`-U`) when enumerating users privileges or users passwords;
* Minor improvements to sqlmap Debian package files;
* Minor improvement to use Python psyco (http://psyco.sourceforge.net/) library if available to speed up the sqlmap algorithmic operations;
* Minor improvement to retry the HTTP request up to three times in case an exception is raised during the connection to the target url;
* Major bug fix to correctly enumerate columns on Microsoft SQL Server;
* Major bug fix so that when the user provide a SELECT statement to be processed with an asterisk as columns, now it also work if in the FROM there is no database name specified;
* Minor bug fix to correctly dump table entries when the column is provided;
* Minor bug fix to correctly handle session.error, session.timeout and httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions in HTTP requests;
* Minor bug fix to correctly catch connection exceptions and notify to the user also if they occur within a thread;
* Increased default output level from 0 to 1;
* Updated documentation.

* Major bug fix to correctly dump tables entries when `--stop` is not specified;
* Major bug fix so that the users' privileges enumeration now works properly also on both MySQL < 5.0 and MySQL >= 5.0;
* Major bug fix when the request is POST to also send the GET parameters if any have been provided;
* Major bug fix to correctly update sqlmap to the latest stable release with command line `--update`;
* Major bug fix so that when the expected value of a query (count variable) is an integer and, for some reasons, its resumed value from the session file is a string or a binary file, the query is executed again and its new output saved to the session file;
* Minor bug fix in MySQL comment injection fingerprint technique;
* Minor improvement to correctly enumerate tables, columns and dump tables entries on Oracle and on PostgreSQL when the database name is not 'public' schema or a system database;
* Minor improvement to be able to dump entries on MySQL < 5.0 when database name, table name and column(s) are provided;
* Updated the database management system fingerprint checks to correctly identify MySQL 5.1.x, MySQL 6.0.x and PostgreSQL 8.3;
* More user-friendly warning messages.

* Major bug fix to blind SQL injection bisection algorithm to handle an exception;
* Added a Metasploit Framework 3 auxiliary module to run sqlmap;
* Implemented possibility to test for and inject also on LIKE statements;
* Implemented `--start` and `--stop` options to set the first and the last table entry to dump;
* Added non-interactive/batch-mode (`--batch`) option to make it easy to wrap sqlmap in Metasploit and any other tool;
* Minor enhancement to save also the length of query output in the session file when retrieving the query output length for ETA or for resume purposes;
* Changed the order sqlmap dump table entries from column by column to row by row. Now it also dumps entries as they are stored in the tables, not forcing the entries' order alphabetically anymore;
* Minor bug fix to correctly handle parameters' value with `%` character.

* Complete code refactor and many bugs fixed;
* Added multithreading support to set the maximum number of concurrent HTTP requests;
* Implemented SQL shell (`--sql-shell`) functionality and fixed SQL query (`--sql-query`, before called `-e`) to be able to run whatever SELECT statement and get its output in both inband and blind SQL injection attack;
* Added an option (`--privileges`) to retrieve DBMS users privileges, it also notifies if the user is a DBMS administrator;
* Added support (`-c`) to read options from configuration file, an example of valid INI file is sqlmap.conf and support (`--save`) to save command line options on a configuration file;
* Created a function that updates the whole sqlmap to the latest stable version available by running sqlmap with `--update` option;
* Created sqlmap .deb (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.) and .rpm (Fedora, etc.) installation binary packages;
* Created sqlmap .exe (Windows) portable executable;
* Save a lot of more information to the session file, useful when resuming injection on the same target to not loose time on identifying injection, UNION fields and back-end DBMS twice or more times;
* Improved automatic check for parenthesis when testing and forging SQL query vector;
* Now it checks for SQL injection on all GET/POST/Cookie parameters then it lets the user select which parameter to perform the injection on in case that more than one is injectable;
* Implemented support for HTTPS requests over HTTP(S) proxy;
* Added a check to handle NULL or not available queries output;
* More entropy (randomStr() and randomInt() functions in lib/core/common.py) in inband SQL injection concatenated query and in AND condition checks;
* Improved XML files structure;
* Implemented the possibility to change the HTTP Referer header;
* Added support to resume from session file also when running with inband SQL injection attack;
* Added an option (`--os-shell`) to execute operating system commands if the back-end DBMS is MySQL, the web server has the PHP engine active and permits write access on a directory within the document root;
* Added a check to assure that the provided string to match (`--string`) is within the page content;
* Fixed various queries in XML file;
* Added LIMIT, ORDER BY and COUNT queries to the XML file and adapted the library to parse it;
* Fixed password fetching function, mainly for Microsoft SQL Server and reviewed the password hashes parsing function;
* Major bug fixed to avoid tracebacks when the testable parameter(s) is dynamic, but not injectable;
* Enhanced logging system: added three more levels of verbosity to show also HTTP sent and received traffic;
* Enhancement to handle Set-Cookie from target url and automatically re-establish the Session when it expires;
* Added support to inject also on Set-Cookie parameters;
* Implemented TAB completion and command history on both `--sql-shell` and `--os-shell`;
* Renamed some command line options;
* Added a conversion library;
* Added code schema and reminders for future developments;
* Added Copyright comment and $Id$;
* Updated the command line layout and help messages;
* Updated some docstrings;
* Updated documentation files.

* Added support for Oracle database management system
* Extended inband SQL injection functionality (`--union-use`) to all other possible queries since it only worked with `-e` and `--file` on all DMBS plugins;
* Added support to extract database users password hash on Microsoft SQL Server;
* Added a fuzzer function with the aim to parse HTML page looking for standard database error messages consequently improving database fingerprinting;
* Added support for SQL injection on HTTP Cookie and User-Agent headers;
* Reviewed HTTP request library (lib/request.py) to support the extended inband SQL injection functionality. Split getValue() into getInband() and getBlind();
* Major enhancements in common library and added checkForBrackets() method to check if the bracket(s) are needed to perform a UNION query SQL injection attack;
* Implemented `--dump-all` functionality to dump entire DBMS data from all databases tables;
* Added support to exclude DBMS system databases' when enumeration tables and dumping their entries (`--exclude-sysdbs`);
* Implemented in Dump.dbTableValues() method the CSV file dumped data automatic saving in csv/ folder by default;
* Added DB2, Informix and Sybase DBMS error messages and minor improvements in xml/errors.xml;
* Major improvement in all three DBMS plugins so now sqlmap does not get entire databases' tables structure when all of database/table/ column are specified to be dumped;
* Important fixes in lib/option.py to make sqlmap properly work also with python 2.5 and handle the CSV dump files creation work also under Windows operating system, function __setCSVDir() and fixed also in lib/dump.py;
* Minor enhancement in lib/injection.py to randomize the number requested to test the presence of a SQL injection affected parameter and implemented the possibilities to break (q) the for cycle when using the google dork option (`-g`);
* Minor fix in lib/request.py to properly encode the url to request in case the "fixed" part of the url has blank spaces;
* More minor layout enhancements in some libraries;
* Renamed DMBS plugins;
* Complete code refactoring, a lot of minor and some major fixes in libraries, many minor improvements;
* Updated all documentation files.

* Added DBMS fingerprint based also upon HTML error messages parsing defined in lib/parser.py which reads an XML file defining default error messages for each supported DBMS;
* Added Microsoft SQL Server extensive DBMS fingerprint checks based upon accurate 'version' parsing matching on an XML file to get also the exact patching level of the DBMS;
* Added support for query ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) real time calculation (`--eta`);
* Added support to extract database management system users password hash on MySQL and PostgreSQL (`--passwords`);
* Added docstrings to all functions, classes and methods, consequently released the sqlmap development documentation <https://sqlmap.org/dev/>;
* Implemented Google dorking feature (`-g`) to take advantage of Google results affected by SQL injection to perform other command line argument on their DBMS;
* Improved logging functionality: passed from banal 'print' to Python native logging library;
* Added support for more than one parameter in `-p` command line option;
* Added support for HTTP Basic and Digest authentication methods (`--basic-auth` and `--digest-auth`);
* Added the command line option `--remote-dbms` to manually specify the remote DBMS;
* Major improvements in union.UnionCheck() and union.UnionUse() functions to make it possible to exploit inband SQL injection also with database comment characters (`--` and ``) in UNION query statements;
* Added the possibility to save the output into a file while performing the queries (`-o OUTPUTFILE`) so it is possible to stop and resume the same query output retrieving in a second time (`--resume`);
* Added support to specify the database table column to enumerate (`-C COL`);
* Added inband SQL injection (UNION query) support (`--union-use`);
* Complete code refactoring, a lot of minor and some major fixes in libraries, many minor improvements;
* Reviewed the directory tree structure;
* Split lib/common.py: inband injection functionalities now are moved to lib/union.py;
* Updated documentation files.