Control characters
Course: AP® Cybersecurity Shows up in: Unit 5: Securing Applications and Data
Characters an application uses to encase user input, including the single quote, the double quote and the semicolon.
Appears in the course and exam description (CED): 5.5.B.1
Why it matters in Unit 5
Adversaries type them to break out of the input.
Example
The quote in x' OR 1=1 --