Injection

Injection is the usage of a resource, such as data, object or services, that is provided to the method, by the caller.

There are good injections, such as the dependency injection.

There are bad injections: all the security ones. SQL injection, PHP code injection, LDAP injection, CRLF injection, CSV injection, XML injection, etc. Those attempt to change reroute the execution of the method to gain access to unprotected resources.

Documentation

See also Server Side Template Injection - PHP.

Related : CRLF Injection, Dependency Injection, SQL Injection, Code Injection, CSV Injection, Escape Character, LDAP Injection, Penetration Test, Taint Analysis, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)