PT-2016-3399 · Invision Power Services+1 · Invision Power Services Community Suite+1

Egidio Romano · Published 2016-07-12 · Updated 2020-06-03 · CVE-2016-6174

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Invision Power Services IPS Community Suite versions prior to 4.1.13

Description The issue is related to insecure privilege management in the applications/core/modules/front/system/content.php component of Invision Power Board software when used with certain versions of PHP. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the content class parameter.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.1.13, update to version 4.1.13 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the content class parameter in the affected API endpoint until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Improper Privilege Management

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-269

Related Identifiers

BDU:2022-02537

CVE-2016-6174

Affected Products

Invision Power Services Community Suite

Php

References · 12

• 🔥 http://karmainsecurity.com/KIS-2016-11 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/40084 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/19 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-02537 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6174 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6174 · Vendor Advisory
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137804/IPS-Community-Suite-4.1.12.3-PHP-Code-Injection.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6174 · Note
• https://support.apple.com/HT207170 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/91732 · Note
• https://invisionpower.com/release-notes/4113-r44 · Note