Mention other placeholders
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 84340d4..c777cd4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -1923,10 +1923,11 @@
operations because doing so is insecure; it makes your program
vulnerable to an SQL injection attack.
-Instead, use SQLite's parameter substitution. Put \samp{?} as a
+Instead, use the DB-API's parameter substitution. Put \samp{?} as a
placeholder wherever you want to use a value, and then provide a tuple
of values as the second argument to the cursor's \method{execute()}
-method. For example:
+method. (Other database modules may use a different placeholder,
+such as \samp{%s} or \samp{:1}.) For example:
\begin{verbatim}
# Never do this -- insecure!