Invite Anyone <= 1.3.14 — Change of Email Invitation Content
CVE-2017-6955Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: <1.3.15Update to 1.3.15 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium5.3
- CVSS
- 5.3CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:NConfidentiality- None
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Invite Anyone invite-anyone
- Affected< 1.3.15
- Patched in1.3.15
Update to 1.3.15 or newer.
You are affected if you run < 1.3.15. Version 1.3.15 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Invite Anyone.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
- No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.
What to do
- Update to version 1.3.15, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Invite Anyone to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Unknown.
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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 6| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤1.4.7Update to 1.4.8 | CVE-2024-43327 | |
| Critical9.8 | PHP Object Injection ≤1.3.18Update to 1.3.19 | — | |
| High8.8 | Cross-Site Request Forgery <1.3.16Update to 1.3.16 | CVE-2017-18544 | |
| High7.5 | Improper Input Validation ≤1.3.15Update to 1.3.16 | CVE-2017-18545 | |
| High7.5 | Email Injection <1.3.16Update to 1.3.16 | CVE-2017-18543 |
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤1.4.7Update to 1.4.8
- Critical9.8PHP Object Injection
≤1.3.18Update to 1.3.19
- High8.8Cross-Site Request Forgery
<1.3.16Update to 1.3.16
- High7.5Improper Input Validation
≤1.3.15Update to 1.3.16
- High7.5Email Injection
<1.3.16Update to 1.3.16
Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 5.3
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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