As suggested by @Jonathan in a comment, there is a module for python that provides the command line tool csvfilter. It works like cut, but properly handles CSV column quoting:
csvfilter -f 1,3,5 in.csv > out.csv
If you have python (and you should), you can install it simply like this:
pip install csvfilter
More info at https://github.com/codeinthehole/csvfilter/
