CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-6955
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
An issue was discovered in by-email/by-email.php in the Invite Anyone plugin before 1.3.15 for WordPress. A user is able to change the subject and the body of the invitation mail that should be immutable, which facilitates a social engineering attack.
Affected configurations
• teleogistic invite anyone (<= 1.3.13)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855 Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/ Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855 Third Party Advisory
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/ Release Notes, Third Party Advisory