Mastering SQLMap and Ghauri: A Practical Guide to WAF Bypass Techniques

SQLMap and Ghauri are automated SQL injection exploitation tools with different strengths. SQLMap offers extensive DBMS support, six injection techniques, and customizable tamper scripts for WAF evasion. Ghauri specializes in blind injections and modern cloud WAFs with adaptive timing and payload obfuscation. The guide covers practical command usage, WAF bypass techniques including tamper scripts, proxy chains, payload encoding, and provider-specific evasion strategies. Key tactics include using residential proxies, hex encoding, junk data injection, request body size limit abuse, and origin IP discovery. Both tools should be used together as each succeeds where the other may fail.