CVE-2018-5993

published 2018-02-17

CVE-2018-5993: SQL Injection exists in the Aist through 2.0 component for Joomla! via the id parameter in a view=showvacancy request.

Priority P2 61 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.0

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

SQL Injection exists in the Aist through 2.0 component for Joomla! via the id parameter in a view=showvacancy request.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
aist_project	aist	<= 2.0	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url http://localhost/[PATH]/index.php?option=com_aist&view=showvacancy&id=[SQL]↗

command option=com_aist&view=showvacancy&id=↗

• → Detect SQL injection attempts targeting the Joomla! Aist component via the 'id' parameter in view=showvacancy requests. Monitor HTTP requests containing 'option=com_aist' combined with 'view=showvacancy' and anomalous/encoded values in the 'id' parameter. ↗
• → The exploit payload is URL/base64 encoded. Inspect and decode the 'id' parameter value in requests to com_aist for SQL injection patterns (e.g., UNION SELECT, comment sequences). ↗

• · The exploit PoC uses 'localhost' as a placeholder; the actual target path ([PATH]) will vary per deployment. Detections should match any host running the com_aist Joomla component. ↗
• · Affected versions are Aist 2.0 and below. The component is specific to Joomla! 1.5 deployments for employment/graduate services sites. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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